A drop in the ocean

The 'drop' in question being, as you might have guessed, our bedroom ceiling, which I guess makes the 'ocean' the vast sea of home improvements that stretches before us with no land in sight!

After the initial horrendous mess on Day 1, when our builders sealed themselves into the room, and then sealed themselves into those suits that forensic pathologists wear on the telly, with heavy duty breathing masks and elastic around the extremities and proceeded to make scary rumbling noises for four hours, fetching an estimated ton of sooty insulation, slate, brick, wood and other assorted bits of detritus down from the ceiling void, along with the lath-and-plaster ceiling itself of course, came Day 2. The reconstruction phase. Tying the somewhat flimsy original ceiling joists to the much more substantial flooring joists of the loft room floor, installing a steel beam to replace the original wooden beam across the bay window and screwing this to the wall plate and finally, once a stable, level surface was established, boarding it all out with plasterboard.

Here's how it was left at the end of yesterday. Today will see the final "construction" jobs - like attaching angle iron to corners, etc - completed, ceiling plastered and maybe some of the walls too. Good thing is, most of the really bad mess is done. I'm already looking forward to the weekend, when I'll be able to get going with my bit!