The Attic Story – Part 1

With the new roof in place it was time to start the work on the attic coversion. The plan is for three bedrooms and two bathrooms (one en-suite to the new master bedroom).

On this trip in early April the targter was to build at least one of the smaller bedrooms over a 10 day period.

Well plans are good but you have to be flexible, especially when trying to get building materials delivered! So in the end we lost 3 days but did manage to get wood, doors and bricks delivered.

The plaster booard (all 120 sheets of it) had been delivered before the roof was completed and safely put in the attic by the roofers.

With Izzie as my helper we started the framing:

Generally the framing went well, the battery going flat on the Paslode nail gun slowed us down a lot and we had to drill and screw much of the framing. Now before you ask I had ordered a new charging lead for the Paslode to be sent to France, it never arrived!

Once the framing was finished we installed the cabling for lighting and power:

Then the plasterboarding started and this is where the plan went out of the window! Now I am just a keen DIYer, not a builder, so while I have done small plasterboarding jobs applying plasterboard with 40mm of insulation on the back to a slopng ceiling with angled beams was not a simple task! To just do the roof for this room took a day, the walls another day.
In the end we managed to finish the room enough to get lights and sockets installed and connected. There are still a few gaps between the A-frame and the wall to fill in, and of course the plasterboard needs taping, the screw holes covering, the velux frame fitting and then the whole lot plastering, BUT it is a room and in fact Izzie slept up there on the last night: