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Possibly but I'm debating getting some bricks in so we can build the front gate pillars together!

I like the idea of renaming it on the bathroom restoration lines! Lots of good info in my main thread covering many subjects I appreciate. Maybe it should have been a blog from day one? These things tend to grow when you have only a vague plan and keep adding bits and changing your mind as you go!

Painting the ceiling's a 5 minute job in comparison to the floor tiles. Girl had the first bath, boy's having the first shower, I'm christening the loo and SWMBO gets to clean them all!

Dunno, once you have walls, a ceiling and floor it speeds up a bit I suppose. The fact I've renewed all of them... The plan always was to learn from this one room. Floor next anyway starting at the wet room corner and working back!

I've always fancied hairdressing, paramedic or geneticist as an alternative career...

I was the same build at his age. Ribs like a xylophone! It's the curvature of the spine from the hours hunched over a keyboard I worry about! He's a cider not beer man.

What is about that scene? I remember the then girlfriend was mad for it after seeing that. Or was she just imagining I was TC or Val Kilmer?

Gets it from his Mum! We do have rellies in Pennsylvania come to think off it, Hamburg etc. All a bit Allahu Akbar for me! I just look like Harry & The Hendersons if I let mine grow. It's a very grey shade of grey...

I'll limit myself to one of each. Had I posted a gut shot earlier you'd have realised why!

First I scrounged one off the left pile. Then I said to my daughter "Your brother let me have one of his...".

Sorry for your loss! Plenty to be taking your mind off things though. This pond...is a water source heat pump an option? Tbh I just want to see someone do one!

8oz srf 4oz butter 3oz castor sugar 4oz mixed fruit 1tsp mixed spice 2-4tsp milk 15-20mins @ 200degC CofT is a "tartrate of potassium" apparently. Proprietary plaster retarder contains it at 40% and is the only active ingredient. Going to make MYSELF a bfo traditional fruit cake sometime...with nuts on top...

Was quite a bit tbh! Better than not enough.

No pie forthcoming so I made rock cakes...one lot sans the mixed fruit for SWMBO and daughter!

But I want to get the door frame & door in...until I know ffl exactly, dictated by the floor tiles when done I can't put the frame in. Can I? I suppose I could put the frame and door in then floor tile up close to the frame and multitool the frame either side? Obviously I'd take the door off to trim it.

Does the roof fall to a drain point (s)?

Git! I REALLY fancy pie now but can't drive as I've had a beer! Wonder if SWMBO will run me up the Co-op...or maybe go for me... Going to paint the ceiling whilst the floor's raised. Floor tiles first?

Tbh @nod's cream of tartar saved the day.

Flash git! March 14th all over again tonight I reckon...

Ta. No professionals involved! I got the first set on the ceiling and wall with my lad labouring. I put one sachet of CoT in to a full bag of multi, should tbh have put two in. Did the ceiling first then the wall. When it came to finishing the first set on the wall it was getting a bit thick in the bucket. Probably a big no-no but I brought it back to life with a dash more water and another sachet of CoT. Cleaned all tools thoroughly and did the second mix about twice as runny as the first but with two sachets of CoT from the off...it retards things a treat for a newbie like me. My boy and I then put the 2nd set on, me the ceiling and he the wall. I then started polishing it and my nephew turned up and helped finish off. Seems to be drying off nice. Nothing paint won't sort! A good father and son bonding experience! (Get the plastering themed joke? )

1st coat and I don't care what you lot think! That cream of tartar is a Godsend to a newbie. Warm in here, like the volleyball scene from Top Gun!

What's the existing tooc finish, hot laid asphalt I'm guessing? Although the rectangles you can see suggest 8'x4" boards underneath?

Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash!"

I'll have a look thanks as one is on its last legs though passed last time.

It's a convenience thing for me. Plus the houses are a fair way away. G'teed something breaks or goes wrong whilst I'm on holiday. As an aside I used to love having a company car DESPITE paying the tax.