Bulkheads

It was time to get rid of the wall at the end of the hallway so down came the Gyprock. Quite a messy job with all the stuff that accumulated inside the wall from generations of rodents and others. The worst thing about it was that with the wall gone, it became obvious that the beam and ceiling each side of the wall were at different heights !  Why did we do that ? That's more work that I wasn't expecting.

It was then decided to start on the bulkheads. We have been demolishing for a while now so constructing something seemed like a good idea. Fortunately we have Brian's scaffolding to help with this so we assembled that and then started the set out for the beams using a new fangled laser level and an old fangled piece of string. Brian's nail gun was also very handy.

 

By the end of the weekend we had two beams up and yet another re-arrangement of the remaining kitchen cupboards. Those champagne glasses look a bit vulnerable. I think I'll have to replace that prop with something a bit more substantial.

The tricky windows

It was a bit of a learning process getting these windows out. It took all weekend to get the two of them out. I tried using the drill to cut through the brackets but that didn't work so it was down to a lot of fiddly hacksawing just using the blade. 

The view from the kitchen was enlarged somewhat but that was only temporary. We asked Glen, our electrician, if he wanted to make use of the access to the wall cavity before the windows went back in  so he came on Friday to do some preliminary wiring.

I picked up the cut-down windows from the glazier during the week so they went back in the wall today. Much quicker than taking them out.

 

The full resources of the Triton workshop were employed to create a reveal for the top of each window. These were required so that they could be fixed to the timber lintels. All that equipment for what are basically two pieces of wood with one rounded edge !!

So that's the result at the end of the day. Those of you with an eye for detail will have spotted the gap under the windows. That's tomorrow's job, back to bricklaying.