Block it in

The atelier has been getting dusty from the soot from the boiler room, and although we had had the boiler serviced, we were not sure it would completely fix the problem. So we decided we needed to do something more. We’d discussed a few ideas about how we could tackle it, which mainly revolved around blocking off the boiler room somehow. The question was, where do we block it in?

We decided the best route was to board the stairs in completely, as this would then give us a wall to run a handrail off as well, which I know Brian had wanted to do. So this morning he looked through his wood store, found some appropriate wood and started work on the wall to run up the side. We had also kept an old door from when we converted the bathrooms, so he started framing out the door to fit at the bottom of the staircase.

The door has been stored since a few years back, and needs a bit of fixing up, but it’s nothing a bit of Brian’s t.l.c won’t fix.

Tomorrow we will try and buy some wood to panel it all in.