{"id":20563,"date":"2023-02-28T20:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=20563"},"modified":"2023-02-28T21:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:36:25","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/the-beginning-of-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginning of the end?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or just the end of the beginning, to paraphrase Winston Churchill’s immortal words? OK, a lot has been done but there’s still a long way to go before the house is finished and ready to be handed over. No electrician today, just the plaster-board workers who finished getting all of the plaster-board up everywhere in the house and cleaning up behind themselves before they left around mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n

Another worker, I don’t know if he was a member of the same team, was also on site early on but had disappeared later. His job was finishing the walls and ceilings off by taping over the joints in the plaster-board and skimming plaster over the nail heads that had been used to fix them to give a flat surface ready for decorating. He left a lot still to be done as the following pictures show.<\/p>\n

First the now standard shot taken from just inside the front door.<\/p>\n

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The next two shots were taken from in the living room looking back towards and then past the kitchen. With all of the walls now up and all of the rubbish gone you can get a feel for the size of the spaces in the house for the first time. I’m very pleased with the results and think the spaces will be very comfortable to live in.<\/p>\n

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Now two shots of the kitchen taken from each direction.<\/p>\n

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The next shot shows the alcove that will become the cloaks cupboard with the separate WC beyond.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the ‘cellier’, or utility room.<\/p>\n

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The next shot shows the bathroom. The far corner will contain a walk-in shower (what’s known as a ‘douche italienne’ here) with a washbasin between it and the WC along the same wall. I’ve kept it pretty simple and they’ll just be a mirror-fronted cupboard like I had at Plazac (I had two actually) on the wall opposite the basin for toiletries, shampoo and all that stuff.<\/p>\n

I intend to keep all my cleaning products in the kitchen and\/or utility room and there shouldn’t be a need for a heated towel rail as towels should dry easily in the summer and in the winter the room will be under-floor heated by the heat pump. That’s my hope anyway.<\/p>\n

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Now three shots of the bedrooms in order bedroom 3, bedroom 1, bedroom 2.<\/p>\n

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Next are a couple of shots up and down the corridor.<\/p>\n

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And to finish off, a longer shot from the living room looking down the corridor past the kitchen.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what the plans are for tomorrow. I assume the plaster-finishing man will be along but I don’t know about the electrician who has a lot of work still to do. As will I have when he’s finished, because it’ll be my job to install and connect all of the ceiling lights – all 41 of them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or just the end of the beginning, to paraphrase Winston Churchill’s immortal words? OK, a lot has been done but there’s still a long way to go before the house is finished and ready to be handed over. No electrician today, just the plaster-board workers who finished getting all of the plaster-board up everywhere in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20563"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20582,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563\/revisions\/20582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}