We are mostly working on the ceiling still, and are now about 9/10ths of the way through it at the moment, but there are other bits and pieces we have finished.
Tina has pointed all of the stonework around the windows and doors in the barn, and I have built up the stonework under one window, and made some mantle shelves from old bits of wood.
Before
After
As you can see, it is a bit of a transformation. It also cuts out all the draughts, so you don't have to worry so much about brain freeze any more.
I've also managed to finish connecting up the lighting circuit in the barn and test it fully. It took a while, as the two double switches needed nine different connections in a big junction box, which took some working out.
The testing took forever. There were a couple of loose connections at first, but after they were sorted out, I still couldn't get a reading through the double switches. I tried various combinations, to no avail. In the end, after two hours or so, I decided that it must be the switches, so I tried the circuits with single switches instead and it worked.
I don't now what is wrong with the double switches. I fitted some new ones and the worked straight away. I think it might be that they got filled up with plaster dust or something like that. The morale of the story being, don't fit delicate equipment before you finish sanding, and always test things straight after you fit them, so you can take 'em back if they're broke.
We haven't put a live supply in the barn yet, but we still managed to test them out with an extension lead.
The limestone for the floor has now been delivered , so Tina and I spent a fun afternoon shifting it from the garden into the barn, all 3 tonnes of it!
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