The case of the Disappearing floor!

All the work on the floor was nearly complete in the ‘Magnum’, that’s what we’ve called this bedroom at the front of the house. My aim was to start, and complete, painting the ceiling. I wanted to get that painted so we could take the plastic down, which would mean we could then start painting the woodwork and walls. All this was going to be quite a big job so we wanted to get on. There is a lot of cutting-in right up to the striped fabric, and a lot of filling, so we would be taking our time. To be honest, we now take our time on all the jobs we do - life is enjoyably much slower.

So, I made a start on the ceiling.

There was however, one small area of floor that still needed doing, just below one of the radiators. It had been filled with concrete or plaster at some point in its history. We think maybe the floorboard had rotted and the wooden floor board at the edge had been replaced with either a lime mortar, concrete or possibly plaster. Either way it didn’t look right and needed some work.

Brian had told me he was going to paint it. I wasn’t overly enthused with the idea of painted plaster, but anything would be better than just plain white. Brian said he would make it ‘disappear’ though. I thought he was thinking maybe grey like we are going to paint the walls, so you can imagine my amazement when I saw what he was doing

There is still a lot to do here cleaning up the walls and pipe work, but he really has made the concrete patch completely disappear.