Where I Live

Beolab 2000

Quim43 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:19:45 GMT

Installation done!

Beolab 2000

Quim43 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:17:51 GMT

ML cable connections finished.

Beolab 2000

Quim43 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:15:24 GMT

Isolate every cable in a ML installation with thermo retractile.

Beolab 2000

Quim43 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:08:49 GMT

Second step, soldier the ML cable. There are 4 ML cables from my BV7, Bs9000, BM1 and Beoport.

Beolab 2000

Quim43 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:03:22 GMT

First step, installing the wall bracket in my kitchen.

Beolab 2000

Quim43 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:59:26 GMT

A friend of Beoworld, Vicente, gave me this fantastic gift, so I was hurry to place it in my installation

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:13:00 GMT

Wogga, Andy is a very good plasterer (i know loads) and Darren my sparky is also very good (even though i done all the hard work). I am a plumber so know loads of every trade there is.

You can see by this photo how good the plastering is.

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:12:00 GMT

I didnt get any photos of me painting, but the Sunday 'just gone', i got up early and started to paint.

Firstly on a freshly plastered surface your fist coat wants to be a watered down coat of emulsion, this will dry fairly quickly, so once i had done that off i went to B&Q to buy the paint that SWMBO had spent weeks contemplating over.

Got home, white paint on ceiling, three shades of grey on the walls and after 9 hours of painting i sat down to hear SWMBO state that she Hates the shade of grey that went on the chimney brest.

Currently sat here tonight my room looks like this.....

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:06:00 GMT

Most of that weekend was spent knocking off any other loose plaster and 'PVA'ing the walls and ceiling. (This is done with a watered down PVA glue which plasterers use so that the actual plaster sticks to the wall, mainly where they are plastering over already plastered/painted walls).

Then, one day later than planned Andy my plasterer turned up and made a start.

Unfortunately i didnt get a photo of the completely finished plastered room, but it took Andy two and a half days.

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Then the plasterboard was screwed in place.

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Other wall.

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:04:00 GMT

Obviously plasterboard was to be fixed over this, and the last thing i wanted to do was screw through any cables, so before fixing plasterboard, i took measurements of where my batons were and wrote these on the walls i had taken the measurement from.

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:03:00 GMT

A few days after this the electrician turned up to do all the sockets, light switch and phone points, unfortunately i was so busy helping him, i didnt get any photos of the electrics going in (i had already done all the chasing out and fixing of the back boxes). And now with only the weekend to spare before the plaster turned up i had to prepare for him.

First thing was the fit some polystyrene sheets between the batons on the two wall with the cableing. This was to A:- act as some type of soundproofing and B:- to give some insulation to these walls.

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:02:00 GMT

And so the story continues:-

After removing the skirting in the half bay window i done some damage to the plasterboard wall, so off came the plasterboard, to reveal that this is a single skin wall with some wooden framing that the plasterboard is attached to. So once the plasterboard was off, i bought some insulation board, which was placed between the wooden framing before re-plasterboarding.

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Emmanuel92 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:01:00 GMT

This evening my lounge looks like this.

The 9000, 4000's and BV3 all now have to be un-connected and put in a safe place for the soundproofing and plasterboarding and the electric sockets to be done.

But for the rest of the weekend im going to enjoy some music and TV.