Day 274 - New Stairs

Well, new stair parts, ie bannisters, handrails etc

 

Lovely Richard Burbidge White Oak

Day 246 - Stair Supports

When replacing the stiars the builders discovered that, like many other parts of the house, a few shortcuts were taken with the stairs and they weren't very well supported.

 

So they've added a couple of supporting posts (there's another round the corner) in the understairs cupboard to provide better support.

Day 242 - New Stairs

I know they don't *look* very different but they have all been updated. Thanks to the underfloor heating we put in upstairs the whole upstairs floor level is 20-30mm higher than it was which meant the stairs finished with a bigger last step up. This isn't allowed by building controls, our brains do complicated things with steps and get confused if steps are uneven so we've had to have them all changed so each step has the same rise.

We're also now replacing the seventies style banisters and rails. Originally we'd planned to keep them, I quite liked their retro styling, but they just look out of place now everything else has been updated so I've ordered some oak stop chamfer style ones to replace them.

Day 97 - Sticky plaster?

We popped round to the property for a meeting with the electrician (think of a number of sockets and double it!)

The plaster has gone from the hallway and landing (as well as the carpet)






No, I don't know what the loo roll is there for either... probably best not to think about it too much!

as well as the wall between the boys room and bathroom (the plaster was so badly popped on this wall it was held on by the wallpaper!)




and between the boys room and my study (the wall that moved when Shaun pushed the door)


More of the old external wall from our bedroom has come down


And this big crack in the stairwell will have to be 'stitched' with some metal spines.