Another day, another job

Having done the job once before, I knew that mounting the new ceiling board in the alcove above my new patio door would be a nightmare, so I haven’t been particularly looking forward to it. I also knew that if and when I’d got the ceiling board up, I’d not then have enough time (and patience, probably) to get the walls plastered too, so I decided to make the ceiling board the job for this afternoon and to spend this morning having a good clear away and tidy-up.

For starters, my electric tile cutter has been standing since I cut the floor tiles over a week ago all messy and with water still in its reservoir and as I won’t be cutting any more tiles (I’ve got to box the pipes in along the bottom of the bathroom wall but I’m just going to use plywood without tiles, I’ve decided) today was time for it to be taken out and cleaned so it could dry in the sun and go back in its box.

I also had lots of tools lying around on the floor in my living room that I shan’t be needing for a while, so they could go back into my workshop as well, and also the workshop floor needed a good sweep-up to clear away the cement, sand and plaster that had been dropped on it while I’ve been transferring them from their bags into the buckets that I’ve been using for mixing.

Then it was time for the ceiling. In reality as I’d been expecting the worst, it didn’t turn out to be quite as bad as I’d expected. I’d hoped to get it up as a single sheet but as before, because the under-surface is so poor and the area of the ceiling so irregular, I had to cut it into two. As you can see from the shots below, the ends didn’t turn out to be too bad at all, but as before, because the sub-surface in the centre is so bumpy, the join in the middle does look a bit rough.

But not to worry, although I’ve got quite a few holes left where I unsuccessfully tried to use nails to hold the two sheets up in the centre, before using hefty screws instead, by the time I’ve used jointing paste and tape, the finished job will still be much better than the first time. I’ll need to source some tape tomorrow and I hope that I don’t have to spend all day driving around trying to get my hands on some, because tomorrow I really do want to break the back of plastering the walls. Then I really will be able to some proper light at the end of the tunnel 😉