It continues

The spaces under the windows have been bricked up on the inside and the boxes for power points and switches have been set in to the wall. Ellie is using her new "island" bench for cooking, frothy coffee in hand to make light of the work.

 

The next step was to complete the removal of the wall at the end of the hallway. This included replacing the supporting post which holds the central beams (the ones which don't line up). I was quite nervous doing this because although everything was propped up temporarily, a lot of weight seemed to be on one stud which should not have been holding up anything. Anyway, it all turned out OK.

 

This isn't the offending post. That was the one which the white one on the left replaced.

With all the timber out of the way I was able to finish the bagging at the corner of the hallway. That strip doesn't look like it's been done but the difference is that we have refined our method with the bagging as we have gone along and now we can leave a fairly clean surface. The concern now is that it might show through the paint.