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<\/a><\/div>\nThis is the other side of the archway, by the lounge door.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThis is the bottom of the dining room near the french doors.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThis is one corner of the lounge near the bay window.<\/p>\n
Saturday 22nd April
I finished off the skirting from the lounge door to the bay window,<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nand also around the bay window area itself.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nPart way through attaching the pieces of skirting around the bay window, my Paslode finish nailer decided to play up and refused to fire any more.<\/p>\n
So I gave up with it, ran a long air line from my compressor in the garage and completed the job with an air finish nailer instead. <\/p>\n
Now was as good a time as any to refit the doors to the hallway and kitchen.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nSunday 23nd April – Thursday 27th April<\/h3>\n
Much of this time was spent filling, sanding and applying knotting solution to the various knots in the skirting prior to painting.<\/p>\n
The majority of this work was carried out by my wife.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nclose up of one of the filled areas.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThursday 27th April<\/h3>\n
All the preparation work completed, my wife was finally able to apply a layer of undercoat.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nBay window area.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nFriday 28th April<\/h3>\n
With ethe undercoat now dry, I was able to apply a layer of gloss to the skirting.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nBay window area<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nI also cut in the wall paint with the gloss and finished off painting the coving on the ceiling in the dining room. <\/p>\n
Saturday 29th April<\/h3>\n
I spent most of the day fitting the radiators.<\/p>\n
The two new ones were relatively straight forward, although some of the new angles on the connecting pipes are a little interesting.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nFitting the curved radiator in the bay was an absolute nightmare and took the entire afternoon.<\/p>\n
First, because of how the plasterer had built out one side more than the other, the curve on the wall was no longer anything like the curve on the radiator.<\/p>\n
After mofing the three brackets three times each, I finally gave up on the middle one and successfully attached the radiator to the wall on the two outer brackets.<\/p>\n
This is when I discovered that the remaining gap behind the middle of the radiator was less than half that required by the bracket!<\/p>\n
With the radiator finally on the wall, I rebuilt both of the connecting pipes so that they would come somewhere close to lining up with the valves.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThe moment of truth – water back on and the two new radiators both leak by the new thermostatic valves – there is not enough of a taper on the tail that goes into the radiator and so it does not seal well.<\/p>\n
After draining the radiators (one somewhat explosively, due to an olive not grabbing the tail correctly, soaking myself and the wall\/floor in the process), I coated the fittings in a liberal quantity of silicone and put it all back together and tested again with a much better result. <\/p>\n
Sunday 30th April<\/h3>\n
Cleared out all of the remaining flooring, tidied up and vacuumed in readiness for moving the furniture back in.<\/p>\n
The completed dining room.<\/p>\n