We are now sick of seeing plasterboard! It has kept us busy for the past few weeks and has been a quiet job we can continue with during the season.
The ground floor was made more difficult by having to cut the board around each joist as we want to keep these exposed (seemed like a good idea at the time!) If only plasterboard came ready painted! The endless plastering and sanding of the joints (on average 5 coats of jointing compound with sanding in between on every joint!) seemed to take forever followed by days of painting although this was a little more therapeutic!
The ground floor was made more difficult by having to cut the board around each joist as we want to keep these exposed (seemed like a good idea at the time!) If only plasterboard came ready painted! The endless plastering and sanding of the joints (on average 5 coats of jointing compound with sanding in between on every joint!) seemed to take forever followed by days of painting although this was a little more therapeutic!
One day I asked Tony to make the bed and he did quite literally!!!
A neighbours brother, who is an electrician, came around to help and advise us on some of the electrics questions we had, he was co
mpletely perplexed by the extractors we had put in each bathroom. “Ou est le VMC?” he said “Quoi?” we said! Turns out it is very fashionable (and obligatory in new homes) to have a centralised ventilation unit which normally sits in the attic connected by several ducts which run to each room. It runs 24 hours and ensures the home is ventilated without the need for opening windows. We would rather just open a window we said but he told us it was unlikely the inspector would pass the installation without it, so now we are the proud owners of a VMC!
mpletely perplexed by the extractors we had put in each bathroom. “Ou est le VMC?” he said “Quoi?” we said! Turns out it is very fashionable (and obligatory in new homes) to have a centralised ventilation unit which normally sits in the attic connected by several ducts which run to each room. It runs 24 hours and ensures the home is ventilated without the need for opening windows. We would rather just open a window we said but he told us it was unlikely the inspector would pass the installation without it, so now we are the proud owners of a VMC! The plasterboard is all but finished so now onto bathroom tiling...what fun!
