Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Nothing very exciting to show at the moment. Petros arrived on Monday and will be concentrating on the loft and the two bedrooms to start with so that we can at least have three usable rooms when we have to move next week. He started prep work - filling nail holes in architrave, etc., sizing the walls in the two bedrooms which will be papered. On Tuesday he started putting up the paintable wallpaper in the left hand bedroom. The shop didn't have enough in stock so we've ordered the rest which will be delivered later in the week. On Wednesday he undercoated the woodwork in all three rooms and did the cutting in of the emulsion in the loft. The original colour we had put in there, although we liked it, really wasn't right with the bed linen and curtains - a bit too pink and the new colour is very pale cream which should look better.

I've been concentrating on washing down the doors and windows outside, cleaning up the UPVC window frames inside and out, cleaning the windows and clearing out the sand from inside the frames. It's been hard work and I've only managed the porch and utility plus side door up to now but it's looking good.

Paul has been sorting out the old kitchen units to go in the utility room, clearing out the store room ready for a coat of emulsion before we order a freezer, and making up the rest of the kitchen cupboards. Neil came over this evening to fix the wall cupboards and tomorrow we'll get them all cleaned up and start bringing over the contents of some of our kitchen cupboards that we wont be needing at the moment.