I paid for my lay in on Wednesday by waking up at 4:30 on Thursday but it meant an early start on the work, although I did wait until 8am before making any noise.
I have spent the last 3 days working on the bedroom. I have taken down the remaining wall and ceiling panels and primed and undercoated the back of them before re-fixing. I realised I had a slight problem when I took down the second ceiling speaker and found the magnet was covered in rust particles.
For some reason the builder had not painted the underside of a whole bay of the roof, I hope it is the only one he missed although it's not really a major problem, surface rust always looks far worse than it actually is.
I cleaned it up and treated the whole area with Owatrol oil, hopefully that will stop it.
I have found numerous screws missing and a lot have been countersunk too deeply allowing the screws to pull through the plywood, must have been an over enthusiastic half blind 'chippy' on a Friday afternoon!
Anyway I sorted out all the problems I could and after refitting everything I washed all the woodwork down with Sugar soap and then sanded the whole room, it took a while and my shoulders no longer feel like they did before I started, but having finished about 3:30 today I had a cold beer, the sun is shining, the batteries are charged and tomorrow could well be a chill day!
The next job is to obtain some wood for the window 'architraves', so it will mean moving on, maybe Monday if I have recovered.
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