Week 22 - Skimming - 27th Dec

With Christmas over too quickly it's back to the plastering and the guys are back in Tus - Fri to try and get done. The store room has dried over Christmas and we are in painting it whilst the Kitchen is being skimmed.

We have got a Dulux paint pod which means you do not have to keep getting up and down to put more paint on the rollers and it uses less paint and as we have a rather large surface area to get through this seemed like a good investment, also Focus have put the paint on sale and instead of £25 a pot they are £10 each...Happy days!!

Buy the end of the week the skimming is done and we are trying to dry it all out with the space heater, whilst painting once dry.

To seal the plaster we are using PVA mixed with water (1 PVA to 5 water) which goes on to the walls and once dried it looks like you have not done anything but should then only require 2 coats of paint.

We've put in some hours this week and are looking forward to letting our hair down on new years eve at a party down the road (as long as we can both keep our eyes open).

So we are all ready for the heating next week and also we have managed to get a tiller to start work on the bank holiday before the heating arrives to get the floor down in the store room so the equipment can be located in there.