More rooms complete

So it was the young ladies turn to have a shiny new room. In truth I finished before Christmas but we waited to get the carpet done until after we got back from our travels south at Christmas. 

It want the longest project so far, that still resides with the front room, which still isnt technically finished! However, this was one of the most challenging ones so far, mostly due to the new window. 

The room, messy as always!

So what did I do? Well, its was going to be a short little job of moving a door frame and building the loft hatch properly, it turned in to something a bit more, as is always the case! I ended up re building the whole of one side of the room aswheni went to take the door frame out the whole wall wobbled, a lot! So, new properly built wall and door frame, new window and loft hatch. I also had to rebuild the surround for the roof window in the hall way to take account of the new loft hatch.

Sounds simple but it wasn't! The wall was simple, I've built lots of walls now, im an old hand at that bit. The door frame is only the second I've built from scratch, the first was done under the watchful eye of the father in law (and master DIYer), but im pretty happy with the result, a slight twisting at the bottom but nothing g that will cause any problems for the door. The loft hatch was simple but was time consuming to get right, as I wa Ted as smaller gap around the hatch and the frame as possible.

Loft hatch

Its still bigger than I would have liked but I don't think its getting any smaller without some clever joinery, which is out of my expertise. The surround in the hallway was also relitivly straight forward, although I have made a slight error as you now can't fully open the window, as in rotate it to clean it! You can open it about 6 inches, which is about 5 more than we have ever opened it, and it works perfectly well on the just vents at the top.

Hall skylight

The real beat of a job was the window! There is something truly terrifying about cutting a whole in your roof. It was not only a worrying job but a pain in the arse one too! A must for next time is a slate ripper to get the tile nails out, as our tiles not only have nail but a ridge as well, making them neigh on impossible to get out, but after much swearing and a few broken tiles, i managed. Putting the window in was a lot simpler, it definitely played to go the extra mike for the Velux windows, fitting was simple, especially once we got the right flashing kit!

New Velux window

Im currently working on the bathroom downstairs, and there are one or two more headaches to deal with there as well!