Most homeowners have been here before .. the sockets in the room are in the exact spot you don't need them. Probably should have got the electrician to move them when we did the re-wire, but at that point I didn't know where everything was going to go.
So on the other side of the bathroom is the 3rd bedroom - which will soon be the office. Right now it's Scott's tool room/workshop. There are 2 power sockets in the room, but they wouldn't be near where the computer desk is going to go, and I'd also need to run a couple of network cables into the room
Nothing too serious .. except ... the wall that I wanted to move them to was a masonry wall. So in order to have flush sockets, I needed to drill/chisel out the blockwork. The other option woulkd be surface boxes in conduit - but that would have been too easy. The job was actually much easier than expected .. but also a lot dustier. The key here is to make sure you're using a good masonry bit; the one that I had cut through the brick like butter.
I chiselled out the outline for the pattress boxes and a route for the cables under the floorboards. I decided to put the wiring through conduit rather than plastering them into the wall to make my life easier in the future. Wires can be run then after the wall is finished.
Those with a keen eye will notice in the pictures that he plaster is receding slowly away (like Brexit supporters). Reason being is that the plaster was loose on the wall and I decided to take it back further to a point where it was still bonded. I used some hardwall plaster on the bits that I chipped away and will skim the wall after the wallpaper is removed (but that's a different story) .. The little blocks of wood are nailed into the wall and will be used for fixing skirting sometime it the not-so-distant future.
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