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Floors, plastering and time to recover!

TheMitchells

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Its been a while since the last blog and lots has happened.  We'd been busy with other things and planned to crack on with the house but while on the way to our house a couple of weeks ago, the OH was hit by a car which failed to give way at a junction.  He was riding his cycle, got thrown up and across the road, landing on his head.  Luckily, nothing was coming the other way, and he was wearing a helmet which took a lot of the impact and somehow, apart from lots of scrapes, his main limbs were fine, it was just his head that was badly hurt. :(

He suffered a fractured cheek and eye socket but luckily, his eye appears okay.  There were no fractures of the head or neck so after a night at the hospital he was sent home.  A week later he had an op to fix the cheek and is now recovering from that.  His good looks have returned with only a small scar around the eye.   Another week and I'll be sending him back to work - he can do the painting at least!

And in case you are wondering; the car driver was reported for careless driving and has admitted liability.:)

 

Back to the house and a few pictures of the plastered bedrooms.  What a transformation from their origonal state. 

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The old windows had plasterboard added right up to the glass so I did take it all off and redid the reveals.  It looks so much better now. 

 

The new cupboard on the landing and door to the front bedroom.

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and the back bedroom;

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This is the wall in the last blog which was my first plasterboarding attempt - it looks much better now.

 

We are looking to start on the bathroom downstairs next.  I have been busy sourcing everything and once the OH is back to normal, it should leap forward.  The stud wall is in place, the bath is sitting in the bedroom and I am waiting for Nicholls to give me a good price on the rest of the furniture. More to follow...............

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Nickfromwales

Crikey! Pass our regards to your OH and wish him a slow recovery ( so he gets out of painting :D ). 

Great progress, and good to hear that you sorted the window reveals out as things like that do my nut in ! :). 

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Barney12

Now I really hate painting but I'm not sure I would go quite that far to get out of it :)

Thank heavens he was wearing his tin hat. Could have been really nasty without it. 

Plastering looks 'bang tidy'.

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Onoff

Bloody cheek! 

 

Sorry, seemed (in?)appropriate. :)

 

Did you plaster yourself? Looks good.

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Stones

Looking good.

 

I remember getting knocked off my bike when I was a teenager.  No helmets in those days and my head made sharp contact with the offending cars windscreen. Bloody sore it was too, although naturally, my main concern at the time was the state of my bike...

 

Best wishes to your OH.

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TheMitchells

Thanks for all the best wishes and yes, he's recovering well - has a couple of scars which just add to his handsome good looks - he'd give Daniel Craig a run for his money now!  B|

 

Re the plastering - no - I did the prep and plasterboarded the rooms then we had a local firm in.  I think they did a smashing job so will call them in for the next stage when we're ready.  Its back to work tomorrow - painting the fence while I prep the bedrooms.  He's working mornings only this week to ease him back slowly.  Then its full on for next couple of months - we are over a year into this renovation and while initially we said ready to sell by spring17, we are now just hoping to get it sold before Christmas!9_9

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