DIY SOS

 The title of the blog is just a blatant attempt to lure hapless search engines our way, but today has been totally DIY city, and given the weather what could be better than working indoors. Well everything, but as the concrete for the Swiss Chalet is on hold (perfect weather for it, bet we pick a day totally unsuited to working outside but hey ho) the builders kit that arrived yesterday was destined to be transformed into one of two things, either a very useful partition wall and new floor to create a 3 metre almost square if you look at it funny utility laundry room and secret store for Airfix kits (although the secrets out now, so its just a store for build them one day honest plastic kits) or an unholy mess/waste of money and endless source of self loathing.

 But with patience, a plastic rule sent all the way from Germany (Cheers Andy) a bread knife, a half rusty saw (only on one side) and my brilliant power drill with box of bits I soon constructed a passable, no wobbling allowed, goat proof wall. Its even insulated. The floor will have to wait for another day as time ran out and critters and toddlers needed attention.

 Decisions still need to be made as to whether this bit of wall stays or does it come down making the pantry part of the room and so making space for a big fridge, the type you can live in. The door and cladding has already been recycled as part of the current project.

Here's said door in-situ and plywood cladding used as part of wall as its stronger than the chipboard for hanging cupboards on. Like these impressive white ones recycled from when the pharmacy was cleared out and saved from skip. All this was done with no swearing whatsoever and bizarrely no self inflicted wounds.
There was minor annoyance in the form of a goat fluorescent light tube which refused to be removed from its holder, then refused to be moved as an entire unit, and as time was running out I decided it could stay temporarily but turned it off while I faffed around with white cupboard underneath it. Once cupboard was hanging light refused to operate. I doubt any causal link, even my DIY skills (lack of) can have broken it (unlike the spare fluorescent light unit in the corner, step back, oops whats that tinkling sound)  Floor is planned for next weekend. I say planned, I mean, I intend to lay it next weekend, but mean once I have figured out a way of moving the Olympic weights bench and plates just off shot on these pics. Cleverer people, like my beautiful and oh so patient wife, may have moved the impressive and uber heavy immensely wide and usually non movable piece of fitness kit out of the way before boxing it in behind a solid wall with a 29 inch doorway. So perhaps this is a DIY SOS after all!