progress

For reasons not yet fully explored the telephone master socket was transferred from a quiet, dead corner of the living room (in which there was a power socket) to the (small and very narrow) hall yesterday evening, at great risk of damage to the wire as it was pulled through the narrow gap underneath the door. This now means that both the telephone and the modem now have to sit on the other side of the door in the small and narrow hallway through which it is necessary to pass up to fifty times every day. Furthermore, there is no plug socket on the side of the hall on which the incoming BT wires are attached meaning that the power lead for the modem has to cross from the plug on the other side, necessitating taping-down to prevent it being tripped over or ripped up to fifty times a day. I also had to fish out a spare socket-pattress-sized bolt to secure the front of the socket to support the weight of the combination transformer/plug of the modem as plasterbloke lost one of the bolts when he loosened the socket to skim around it. One of the first things to be done tomorrow evening will be the insertion of the short lead of the ADSL microfilter through the gap between the door and the frame underneath the bottom-most hinge to allow phone and modem to sit behind the door where they ought to be whilst keeping the BT wiring on the other side, wire coiled as much as possible and possibly cable-clipped to the wall.

Apart from that this evening's painting went well: £2.50 bought a nice fat fluffy roller (£2 of the cost of which was recouped when I found a £2 piece when crossing Torphichen Street on the way home) which permits rollering of four times the area between refills of which the old roller was capable. All the ceiling and all major walls (except for a couple of bits around the window which still look a little bit not-dry) are now undercoated, the radiators are back on their brackets (minus a couple of the little anti-rattle cushions which plasterbloke managed to dislodge and lose somewhere in the gap between the floors and walls (and the one I managed to crush when hoisting the big radiator back into place)) and the first coat on the main wall has dried to an acceptable shade. Tomorrow might see a second (and hopefully final) coat on the ceiling and round the corners leaving the relatively easy and slightly less messy second-coat of the walls for the weekend.