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.

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...

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,...

Then the plasterboard was screwed in place.

Other wall.

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.

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...

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...

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.

The only way to connect these connections was to stand half way up a step ladder and hug the 9000 close to my body and wall yet far enough away from wall for my misses to push in the connections. There wasnt enough 'play' on the am aerial to get that in so i remounted the 9000, pushed up the...