Hi,
Progress has been very slow (working in London 60 miles away, 4 hour round commute, SWMBO works too + kids to cook for), but progress is happening:
This is Leia's bedroom nearing completion:
Out of all the things we have done, Leia's bedroom is the compromise that made everything else work - it's a funny hickelty pickelty room that might be better off as a study in fact it would be very good in that role) - and that remains an option if you only needed to 2 bed house - or when the dormer is back in one piece, it would also be an option to divvy that up into a bedroom and another room.
But for now, with a bit of creativity, it will work quite well...
Just finished (bar painting) the pipe boxing in 12mm MDF on a 18x44mm frame with 1/3 + 2/3 front-back stubs to ensure rigidity.
Those stubs are not fixed to the rear frame - so it is possible, at the expense of digging out 6 screws and running a knife down both sides to free the caulking (to be) to have that panel out without much damage.
On top will go a 130mm deep ok plank as a useful cup and lamp sized shelf (Hence the power socket).
The "box" that is filling the hole under that bath was going to be a panel - but then I thought - why waste the space. So I made "Bunny's House" (Leia's name - as "Bunny" will live there. But later it could take books nicely handy for bedtime reading.
Today I discovered the joy that is Pinkgrip - bloody good stuff it seems to be too. Bought from Margaret Mill's in Gloucester Road (S Ken, London) - a newly discovered emporium of all that is proper in the field of DIY - at surprisingly un-South Kensington prices!
And yes - the floor is down - Kahrs on top of Marmox + "Boardwalk" underlay, same as the other bedrooms.
Of course, once the bath panel is siliconed in - the water will have no where to go - this is a problem. I might drill some drain holes into the hall the other side so any flooding will make itself known and hopefully go towards the tiled hall rather than the wood bedroom floor...
Cheers
Tim