two contractors today

 Niklas returned and started putting in the drainage pipes to the attic. He replaced the old metal vertical pipe to the attic with a plastic pipe, and added a split that runs off towards the new loo. In order to accomplish this he needed to drill holes in the floor jousts, each a little lower than the next (counting from the end by the loo), so that there is enough of a slope in the line that flushing the toilet will actually send the water etc. moving that direction. Then he added another split, to a decreasing sized drain for the sink.

 

While he worked, Gustav, the electrician also came over and started running the wires. I thought the plan was to run them in the same sub-closet enclosure as the pipes, so when we discussed drilling down through the floor of the closet to run the new wires directly to the fuse box, I expected the hole to come out into the laundry room. This is also what we expected, and we used the laser measuring tool to determine how far from the outer wall it would be. Answer, around the middle of where the old door between the bedroom and laundry room sits the one that we intend to board up, so, yah, I am good with that.

 

Neither of us paid attention to the fact that the wall on the edge of the stairs is a little off set with respect to the wall between the laundry room and the downstairs bedroom. If I had, I wouldn’t have thought it mattered, since I expected the wires to go down the closet side wall, which is perpendicular to the offset wall I just described.

 

However, rather than running those wires in the closed off bit of the closet, he opted to run them down the center back of the closet itself, so, assuming we put back the existing very tightly fitting shelves, we will need to cut a divot into the back edge of the shelf to accommodate them.

 

It turns out that the wall offset in the cellar is pretty much exactly the width of the wall, and that the wall between the upstairs bedroom and bathroom is not offset. This meant that when he drilled down right next to the west side of the hole on the main floor, it punched through right next to the east side of the wall in the cellar bedroom. Oops.

 

He came and called me, and I decided that was fine, the wires could go from there over to the fuse box in the cellar, and he resumed work.

 

By the time his work day was done he had run wires to where the light switch in the new loo will be, and an outlet right next to that switch, another outlet below them facing to the outside of that wall into the main room. Another wire over to above the sink for the light there, and also to the outside of that wall for an outlet into the half of the attic that will remain cold storage. He also left a long coil of wire ready to run the other direction to do outlets in the bedroom itself.

 

As they were finishing up their work, the first of our house guests for the weekend, Cinder, arrived, so I quit work early to catch up with her. After they left I cleaned away all the concrete dust and chunks out of the guest room and moved her stuff down stairs to empty the entry area before the housekeeper arrived.

 

While the housekeepers were working their magic Cinder decided she was sleepy, and went downstairs to rest, so I returned to the computer to wrap up my work day.

 

Keldor ran some errands after work, including checking the second hand store, where he found a bathroom mirror with a lamp above and a shelf under for only 69 sek, so he got it. Then he also went to another store and bought a new towel hook, a toilet bowl brush, and one of those free standing toilet paper holders that hold a stack of spare rolls on the upright post, and have a folding horizontal top for the active roll.

 

When he got home we looked at the day’s renovation accomplishments and discussed the options we had discussed with the plumber for ensuring that the water lines to the upstairs loo don’t freeze, and agreed on building the insulated wall on the outside of where those come into the attic.

 

This means we can build closets into the wall in that area, which will give much needed storage without losing space in the room itself, so a win all the way around.