Who's there? Your loft ..
Knocking Through as it's called is when the builders cut through the existing ceiling to make way for the new staircase. It's a big step in the construction and also a really messy undertaking from what I hear. Having taken out a few lathe and plaster walls myself, I can appreciate this.
The guys did a great job of blocking everything off. Dust sheets, tarps and doors closed to minimise any dust going where we don't want it.
I didn't hear much going on .. but there again I was away in the peace and quiet of my cabin. Poor Care was basically trapped in the office for about 4 hours while the guys were working. I offered to provide food and drink through the window so she didn't starve.
The result though was .. well .. a bit hole in the ceiling. Not much to look at but still pretty cool.
They managed to take out the brick archway as well - never liked that so glad it's gone. What I didn't appreciate before was how sloped the cieling was. I knew from the previous walls that I built that it wasn't fully level but now I can see the degree of slope. The guys will just overboard with plasterboard and make it level now.
And since it's still technically winter and we don't have a roof and now with a hole in the ceiling .. it's a little bit chilly in the Hare house at the moment. The other challenge is the noise .. with no insulation between the house and the loft and a bunch of tarps for a roof it was pretty LOUD. The weather once again didn't want to cooperate - a week of what seemed like a hurricane outside did not make for easy sleeping. Why did we decide to do this in the middle of winter again?!!
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