Feels like a major update, but so much more to do!
Over the past few weeks we've been tackling wiring, ceilings and cutting in back boxes and fitting new sub floor in front room
Ceiling down above 2nd floor stairs
Ceiling in our main bedroom - This was a bad idea
We had known there was a bee nest somewhere, as we had to get them removes before doing the soffits. We had no idea however that Bee HQ was above our heads while we were sleeping!
Luckily for us, the bees had moved out, otherwise this could have been a bit hairy
Huge nests - Probably about 5+ the size of footballs
Beginning the sub floor!
Cut and terminated the radiators in the front room - Have a new single vertical radiator on the way
I chose to use 100mm rockwool sound blocks to insulate/prevent noise - Will be doing the same in every floor of the house, and ceiling on top floor potentially
Firstly had to get up the remaining chipboard floor, because all the pipes were dealt with, circular saw up the middle of each one made light work of it
We also stripped the remaining textured plaster off the walls, and discovered a ton of it was blown, so I stripped it back to stable plaster and we'll get this sorted
Got some floor down just to work and plan out the attack - Under is the new insulation with all cabling resting on top to ensure it's not affected
I decided to lay 100mm framing around the edges - Meaning I could take up the sub floor without disrupting skirting once the room is finalised (this however makes installation a bit more time consuming...)
First edge down (2.4 x 0.10) - Gorilla glued and double screwed with gold screws
Second edge down to allow first board - Because of the edging occupying the joist, I'm having to build a sturdy support for the ply. Each baton is 50x75, gorilla glued to tight fit and double/triple screwed with 5x80mm (5x50mm into blind joist as can't get behind). Where doing the horizontals, I chose to stick a support baton under the baton to allow me to be sure it will never sink as it's a main support corner.
Mmm oozing gorilla glue! Awesome stuff.
Opposite end support
The very messy work site!
Finished opposing end - I hope this will be extremely sturdy... it should be very well supported. The joists are pretty hard to work with, some of them are quite knotted.
In terms of screwing down the ply to the framing, I'll be using special SPAX 4.5x60 which should prevent any sqeaking going forward.
Rewiring
Chase cut for 4 gang light switch on 2nd floor - This will be the open plan kitchen you come up to from upstairs
Tagged all old cable with red ties to pull it out once we cut over
New socket location (plasterboard)
New Socket (Solid Wall)
New Socket (Plasterboard)
New Socket (Solid Wall) - Start of our 3rd floor ring
New Socket (Plasterboard) - Mismeasured this one... so fashioned a bit of plasterboard and used evostick to fix it... seems pretty secure
We were lucky enough to have a friend lend us this -
http://www.screwfix.com/p/armeg-ebs-back-box-wall-chasing-installation-kit-7-pcs/67733 - made cutting all the back boxes a breeze!
Kitchen ceiling
Not really tidied cables yet, but done a few fire clips to keep it up there as it's an escape route.
Wiring everywhere! Had to cut a few rings and rejoin (hence terminal blocks) which is just temporary... and no real load going through these before people panic.
Next steps, will be getting sparky in to most likely flip our CU over and might also get him to do the 4 gang switch as it's switching all 3 floors so mind is melting at the wiring for it!
