another nasty job

but the worst bit is done. We're putting up the ceiling in the boiler room, and as the boiler makes a constant groaning noise when it is feeding fuel in, we want to insulate between the ceiling and the floor above, in the hope of soundproofing it. With fibreglass (laine de verre over here). The fibres get everywhere when you cut it and when you try to get it up between the pipes and plasterboard supports. Then the fibres come down into your mouth, nose, ears, eyes ... and they prickle maddeningly. For that matter you also get the loose whitewash off the beams to, a really attractive combination of unpleasant materials.

Still, here's what it looks like while in progress:



This view shows how we've had to build in a step, to get round the lower pipes. It won't be a flat ceiling, but hey, it's a boiler room. There will also be an inspection hatch, as many of those pipes have valves allowing different parts of the hot and cold water system to be closed separately (to do tapwashers, etc).



Putting the plasterboard up doesn't bring much more dust down, and there's not a lot more to do anyway. I hope.

It has made a substantial difference to the noise level upstairs. Downstairs won't change much until I can install a door on the boiler room. And on the bedroom, for that matter. A couple of jobs for later.