Steve Maskery
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Today Ray finished taping and filling the ceiling joints. We had to get the scaffolding to the front half of the room, which wasn't easy as some dork had left a pile of panels in the way.
Whilst Ray was doing that, I was sorting out the area above the door. We'd already made the panel, when Akram was here, but to fit it I wanted to fill the area with insulation. The lintel already has 50mm of insulation in it, and there was room for another 60mm. So it was jigsaw puzzle time again. I stole some from the void in the TL corner and then filled that with 100mm stuff that was left over from doing the rest of the walls.
I've colour-coded all the cables so that I know which cable powers what.
One mildly amusing thing that happened today was Ray going to Travis Perkins to ask about Joint Finish. Joint Finish is a product that you can put on the PB to make it smooth and all white and a good base for painting. It has the advantage that it is non-cementitious, so it just dries rather than sets. You can wet it and rework it if you need to. It's made by British Gypsum Limited. It says so in in Ray's Blue Book of Plasterboard, published by British Gypsum Limited. But TP had no knowledge of this product and we couldn't find it on BGL's site either.
So I rang BGL's Tech Support. No, never heard of it. It turns out that Ray's Blue Book of Plasterboard was published in 1967.
The equivalent product today is Drywall Primer and appears to vary in price enormously depending on where you buy it. This project is bankrupting me. But there is no sense in stopping now, is there?
Whilst Ray was doing that, I was sorting out the area above the door. We'd already made the panel, when Akram was here, but to fit it I wanted to fill the area with insulation. The lintel already has 50mm of insulation in it, and there was room for another 60mm. So it was jigsaw puzzle time again. I stole some from the void in the TL corner and then filled that with 100mm stuff that was left over from doing the rest of the walls.
I've colour-coded all the cables so that I know which cable powers what.
One mildly amusing thing that happened today was Ray going to Travis Perkins to ask about Joint Finish. Joint Finish is a product that you can put on the PB to make it smooth and all white and a good base for painting. It has the advantage that it is non-cementitious, so it just dries rather than sets. You can wet it and rework it if you need to. It's made by British Gypsum Limited. It says so in in Ray's Blue Book of Plasterboard, published by British Gypsum Limited. But TP had no knowledge of this product and we couldn't find it on BGL's site either.
So I rang BGL's Tech Support. No, never heard of it. It turns out that Ray's Blue Book of Plasterboard was published in 1967.
The equivalent product today is Drywall Primer and appears to vary in price enormously depending on where you buy it. This project is bankrupting me. But there is no sense in stopping now, is there?