Renovation Ad Infinitum
July 4th 2009 10:04
Last Saturday we spent most of the day continuing on with our kitchen renovation. Last Monday, about nine pm, we did some more. Just enough to cheer my wife up: she was feeling as though it was never going to get done (!)
Last night (Friday) we tackled a corner that hadn't been finished, and dealt to it. Today we got the four ceiling pieces on, with the help of two of our friends (lots of cheers and hallelujahs at this point). In fact, if they hadn't been there, I suspect my wife and I would still be working on it, and the air could well be blue...
There comes a point in renovation when you just wish you'd never started. There also comes a point when you're beginning to see that it might actually finish. I'm not sure that we're quite at that latter stage yet, but hopefully it won't be too far away.
We now have all the batts in - bar one small easily-handled section (there are issues with the electricals there); we now have the ceiling sorted, as I said; we even have one piece of gib up on the wall (gib as in gib-board). There was a bit of a disaster with this last item. It's been drizzling heavily all day, and at times the rain has come down very thickly. We needed to pick up this waterproof gib today - three pieces of full 3 metre length material - because the first area we're putting the gib on is behind the sink area.
So we went out to Mosgiel, where in spite of the fact that it's several kms out of town, the materials are a good deal cheaper. We picked up a courtesy trailer from the company - in the rain; got the gib on board with some difficulty, as the wind kept sweeping our tarpaulins up off the trailer; and finally headed home with everything secured.
Picked the first two pieces of gib off the trailer with the help of my daughter, and brought them, somewhat wet, into the house. Picked up the third piece and...it bent in two. Gib with cracks are a bit of a pain, as they don't sit well on the walls. Nevertheless, we took it inside, and, while our friends were away having lunch, put it up on the wall. Except that as we were doing that, it bent in another place!
Whether it was something to do with it being partly wet, or whether it was because the guy at the timber year put a bit of two by four under it to keep it from getting wet on the bottom of the trailer and it got strained at that point; or whether it was just one of those days...
Anyway, that piece is up on the wall, and my wife will plaster out the offending bend! But it's something to keep in the netbooks, (sorry, notebooks) perhaps, that wet gib may not be as easy to move as dry gib...!
The photo isn't of our renovation, but something similar. It was taken by Maree Reveley of Canterbury, New Zealand. Note the pink batts everywhere.
Last night (Friday) we tackled a corner that hadn't been finished, and dealt to it. Today we got the four ceiling pieces on, with the help of two of our friends (lots of cheers and hallelujahs at this point). In fact, if they hadn't been there, I suspect my wife and I would still be working on it, and the air could well be blue...
We now have all the batts in - bar one small easily-handled section (there are issues with the electricals there); we now have the ceiling sorted, as I said; we even have one piece of gib up on the wall (gib as in gib-board). There was a bit of a disaster with this last item. It's been drizzling heavily all day, and at times the rain has come down very thickly. We needed to pick up this waterproof gib today - three pieces of full 3 metre length material - because the first area we're putting the gib on is behind the sink area.
So we went out to Mosgiel, where in spite of the fact that it's several kms out of town, the materials are a good deal cheaper. We picked up a courtesy trailer from the company - in the rain; got the gib on board with some difficulty, as the wind kept sweeping our tarpaulins up off the trailer; and finally headed home with everything secured.
Picked the first two pieces of gib off the trailer with the help of my daughter, and brought them, somewhat wet, into the house. Picked up the third piece and...it bent in two. Gib with cracks are a bit of a pain, as they don't sit well on the walls. Nevertheless, we took it inside, and, while our friends were away having lunch, put it up on the wall. Except that as we were doing that, it bent in another place!
Whether it was something to do with it being partly wet, or whether it was because the guy at the timber year put a bit of two by four under it to keep it from getting wet on the bottom of the trailer and it got strained at that point; or whether it was just one of those days...
Anyway, that piece is up on the wall, and my wife will plaster out the offending bend! But it's something to keep in the netbooks, (sorry, notebooks) perhaps, that wet gib may not be as easy to move as dry gib...!
The photo isn't of our renovation, but something similar. It was taken by Maree Reveley of Canterbury, New Zealand. Note the pink batts everywhere.
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