Requim for a ceiling

So, after the filthy weather on Friday night, Saturday turned out OK in the first few hours, but being the doubting Thomas that I am, I waited until about 11am, when it started raining (4 inches in 24 hours). So I spent the day rewiring the north east side of the house and pulled out a heap of redundant crap.

The best part of Saturday was that I realised that with th roof off, I had the perfect chance to rid myself of the last of the bathroom ceiling (I had removed the bathroom light fitting at this point). So I kicked my celing in! Most theraputic for a man who had been severly frustrated all day with the weather (and the wiring that I found in the roof).

The ceiling as it was:

After I'd kicked it in and pulled out all the nails:

Sunday was far nicer and I did about 12 hours up and down ladders and in and out of the roof. The result being that I was absolutely shagged by the end of the day, and most of the wiring was complete. Found a small mistake in the evening which I fixed on Monday.

Unfortunately on Saturday night I had needed the power point that the brooder was plugged in to and I forgot to plug it back in. As a consequence I lost one of the peachicks. The other three are still fighting fit, and peamum, seems to be doing OK with her one.

Monday saw me finish off the wiring, and add a four button architrave plate to the back door to tie in with the garden light/home automation projects. It cost a bit, but I reckon it'll be well worth it in the long run.

I spent some of Monday trying to put the new ceiling up after putting up the ceiling battens, but it was just too heavy for me. Instead I cut the small section for one side put it up. Part of this learning experience involved wrecking a sheet of villaboard, Not happy.

Ceiling battens up:

Side sheet up:

Yesterday I had a rest day, so I drove to Launy, caught the plane to Melbourne and spent the afternoon with the family doing Christmas lunch, chatting, reading, sleeping etc. All in all, one of the more civilised Christmas' in recent memory. While ther I got to check out the bath I bought on Ebay in person. Found a part number on it and have already downloaded the drawing for it. It looks like this;

Today I spent the first part of the day preparing the bathroom to put the rest of the main ceiling up, by removing the basins, clearing some crap out, etc. I also went and pre-drilled all the countersinks for the sheet to make everything easier, and marked out the hole for the Tastic to go in.

Phil came over about two, and we got the sheet up in record time, I spent the rest of the afternoon, cleaning up the room, fitting the Tastic, and pulling out some remainder pipe, that was in the way of things to come.

Main sheet in:

And the Tastic in place:

Back to work for a couple of days tomorrow, but tomorrow night I will be plumbing up the new cold lines and pulling the power cable down for the prospective laundry under the house.