I've being getting around to putting the timber finish on the outside of the house. This involves setting up my ultra cool scaffolding...much safer than a ladder.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Moving power point and splash back
After a bit of a break from blogging, I thought I would continue.
The electrical authority told me that the power point was tool close to the burners, so I had to move it. Hack, hack and it is now in a new place. It had to go into the plaster board as there is just a solid timber post behind it. I screwed the plaster board edges into the timber just to make sure they don't move.
I turned the power off to the power point circuit, but I did not realise that the exhaust fan ran off the lighting circuit. Zap, I electricuted my little finger. The RCD did do trip because the two switch wires short circuited through my finger.
Then I tiled the splash back. Not shown is the laundry and front kitchen splash backs. It will be liz's job to do the grouting - cause I don't do grouting.
The 2 floor boards bridging the pantry and the kitchen started to lift. Not good as the sliding door would no longer close. I needed to remove the sliding door to get fix the floor boards, but I could not remove the door because of them - drat. Fortunately after thinking about it for a while, I found I could saw out a little bit of the door frame to remove the door - I intend on patching it one day.
I fixed the rising floor boards using a car jack and a length of timber between the offending boards and the door frame. Just enough pressure to force the boards down, but not too much to destroy the house. Then I screwed the boards down from the underneath the floor. I made sure that the screws did not penetrate the top of the boards. Problem solved. Now I just need to get liz to paint the door and I will put it back.
The electrical authority told me that the power point was tool close to the burners, so I had to move it. Hack, hack and it is now in a new place. It had to go into the plaster board as there is just a solid timber post behind it. I screwed the plaster board edges into the timber just to make sure they don't move.
I turned the power off to the power point circuit, but I did not realise that the exhaust fan ran off the lighting circuit. Zap, I electricuted my little finger. The RCD did do trip because the two switch wires short circuited through my finger.
Then I tiled the splash back. Not shown is the laundry and front kitchen splash backs. It will be liz's job to do the grouting - cause I don't do grouting.
The 2 floor boards bridging the pantry and the kitchen started to lift. Not good as the sliding door would no longer close. I needed to remove the sliding door to get fix the floor boards, but I could not remove the door because of them - drat. Fortunately after thinking about it for a while, I found I could saw out a little bit of the door frame to remove the door - I intend on patching it one day.
I fixed the rising floor boards using a car jack and a length of timber between the offending boards and the door frame. Just enough pressure to force the boards down, but not too much to destroy the house. Then I screwed the boards down from the underneath the floor. I made sure that the screws did not penetrate the top of the boards. Problem solved. Now I just need to get liz to paint the door and I will put it back.
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