Plastering Complete

The plan was that the completion of plastering of the basement room would coincide with a weekend thus allowing us time to move all our clutter from the upstairs room into the freshly completed basement. The plasterer would then have clear access to the upstairs room for Monday morning. The plan nearly worked. The only real difference was that the removals job had to be done on a Tuesday evening instead of over a weekend. Of course, this meant that the fresh plaster in the basement was still fairly wet so we had to keep things away from the walls to allow air to circulate.

Still, it was done, and now the plastering of both rooms is complete. Here is the upstairs room, looking towards the fireplace, and door out onto the deck. Note that the interior of the fireplace opening has been left unplastered. This is going to be lined with stone when the fireplaces arrive in 10 days time.


Looking the other way, we still have the plastic sheet over the entrance to the rest of the house and, as yet, no real allowance has been made for the spiral staircase :

One thing that turned out to be a real pain in this upstairs room was the wiring for the lighting. I asked the electrician to leave plenty of cable just hanging from the ceiling space so that we could have some freedom about where the switches are positioned when the decisions about the staircase are finally taken. However, he did not allow anything like enough. In the end I routed all the cables through to the cavity of the wall where the entrance to the room is likely to be. There was barely enough cable to reach even to there.

Because of the strange scheme he uses, making all the connections in the switch rather than at the light fitting, somehow we need to fit 13 cables into a single-gang switch pattress ! Here they all are :

Needless to say, I was not going to attempt this. It is his problem to solve !