October Progress

Rob and Martin have finished all of the plastering on the second floor and its starting to resemble habitable space. Huge thanks to Ian who came over to show Taz how to fit skirting and architrave (the phrase "blind leading the blind" springs to mind!). Also thanks to Fox who has been working with us for the last few weekends. He's started stripping paint off the staircase and now I've discovered that the paint comes off the spindles fairly easily, he'll have plenty to do over the coming weeks.

Other progress; some of the double glazing has been fitted and I have finished painting the 1st and 2nd floor external window sills (although not ideal while all the dust and grit is still flying around). The finish is a little gritty, but had to be done as the scaffold is finally coming down this week.

This week we are expecting to see lots more plastering to the first floor and the tiling in the 2nd floor bathroom to begin. Malcolm is also putting in an appearance to put in some major cables and hopefully do a partial 2nd fix where he can. Hooray lights! This will enable me to do some decorating in the evenings during the week at least.