Renovations Diary: 13th September, 2019
Scott the plumber has been hard at it this week:
- commissioning the gents toilets
- connecting up the school's kitchenette
- mounting the radiators in the school room
- installing the glass machine in the bar, and
- installing the ice machine in the cellar.
The equipment took slightly longer than planned, but there was a huge cheer when he appeared from the cellar with a handful of ice.
If you have been in the pub, there have been a number of paint trials going on. Some successful, some less so and have been changed.
Plans for the next couple of days include:
- grouting the gents, sealing it, and adding the cistern,
- painting in the bar and toilets,
- cutting and attaching the skirting, and
- adding the bar front.
We've heard it a few times in the last couple of weeks ... it's starting to look like a real pub. Give us a few more days and it will be even more so and with the new sign hanging outside the door (being installed this afternoon), hopefully it is somewhere we are all proud of.
Before the green is added
![Can't wait for the floor covering to be removed](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-01.jpg)
Installing the school kitchenette
![Pete getting stuck in before the school opens](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-04.jpg)
Lexie with fetching headwear
![An old polythene bag](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-07.jpg)
Radiators now installed
![In the school room](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-10.jpg)
Last of the plastering in the bar
![Ian Gray doing the finishing touches](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-13.jpg)
Bas scraping away
![At the front window](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-16.jpg)
Pub looking good
![Now with tables and chairs inside](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-02.jpg)
Trialing the green paint
![Marilyn using test pots in the bar](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-05.jpg)
Cool green on some walls
![But will probably change](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-08.jpg)
Directly behind the bar
![Plasterboarding next to the stairs to first floor](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-11.jpg)
Giggling wire strippers
![Weather still good so girls are down stripping](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-14.jpg)
First of the ice
![Scott the Plumber with ice from the newly commissioned machine](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-17.jpg)
Ready for the quiz night
![Lots of work was required to ready the pub for the quiz](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-03.jpg)
Lexie with more boron
![Multiple coats by mulptiple people to kill the dry rot and mould](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-06.jpg)
Bes painting
![In the pub area](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-09.jpg)
Ian chuffed with his stripping
![Of the front windows](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-12.jpg)
And Tony involved too
![Windows have taken up significant resource and time](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190913/20190913-15.jpg)