More Kitchen Progress

Sorry I haven't posted this last week or replied to comments - I've been working flat out to try and get so we can use some of that space again before the weather turns and we can't eat outside anymore!

Lots more progress though.

Everything was plasterboarded and ready for Sean, my good friend and plasterer, to come and skim it. 


He worked tirelessly over the bank holiday weekend to get it finished and I have to say he's done an amazing job. I've known Sean for a long time now and met him when I was the deputy manager on for a large house builder, he was sat in his car reading a book at the time waiting for the site to open and I remember thinking - wow he's reading a book we should be friends! This probably says a lot about some of the builders I was working with at the time.

 As soon as he was finished I painted the walls. We've gone for just magnolia walls and white ceilings at the moment, just to keep it light and fresh, but might choose to paint it differently later on. I should imagine that I'll have to touch up the walls again before I'm finished but it's far easier to do the bulk of it now before teh floor goes down.

Then yesterday I started work on the floor. We've gone all out on this and it's one of our larger expenses but we decided that we didn't like anything as much as we liked a natural stone floor. We also wanted one that would last a lifetime and be easy to maintain and clean.

 Before I could lay the floor we put down anti crack matting. We decided on this because there is two ages of concrete floors and I should imagine a crack will occur between them, something I'm keen to avoid. It was a sod to lay, just becasue of the sheer area to be done at once, the sweat was pouring off me as I was pressing it into the adhesive.

 I've now started to lay out the flagstones to get them where I want them. I've been told it's best to dry lay them first so that I don't accidentally create a bad pattern or have a band of colour without realising it.

This slabs are heavy and taking some moving about. I'm not looking forward to the job of laying them!

My wife goes back to work tomorrow so I think there will be a serious slow up in the amount of work I can produce in a day whilst doing the school run and looking after our youngest. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to do a little each day and still see some progress though.