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17/12/03

Lights! Bonding! Plaster!


The light switch is moved from the inside the cloakroom to the outside the door, extractor wiring added and undercoat plaster and boding applied.
I'm not a big fan of pull cord switches and know that traditional switch inside a lavatory is not the safest bet, so the light switch needed moving. This meant excavating the old wiring from the ceiling and wall and adding a longer switch wire to run across under the plasterboard ceiling and be chased into the wall.

A timed extractor fan is a good idea and, I suspect, a Building Regulation in an internal lavatory. So the wiring was added for this as well. A timed unit typically requires a neutral, switched live and always live wire, all of which can normally spur off the light ceiling rose.

With all the wiring in place and the plumbing already sorted, at last the time has come to start making this look like a room, rather than a shed. Render undercoat plaster a mortar type mix made with special plastering sand - was applied to the newly bricked up doorway. Bonding coat was used to fill over the capable conduit.

Things are looking better already...

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