Carpeting the stairs

We've reached Friday and today Rosie went back to school, as she wasn't actually sick yesterday the cheeky little monkey.

I stopped them from making a mistake

Double sided tape

Underlay is down the first run

Starting to set the carpet in place

Drilling holes for the securing rods

Securing rod in place

Preventing frays

Stairs looking smart

The men came and in made a start straight away and I was glad that I went to check as they were rolling out the carpet down the stairs without putting any underlay down first! I had a word and they quickly said "oh we forgot" and rolled the carpet back up out the way. The first thing to do was applying double sided tape on each step. We didn't have enough so they legged it down to the shop for some more. When they got back they started on the slightly frustrating task of rolling the underlay and securing it at each step. Then they had to struggle with the carpet to get it lined up perfectly straight  and true. This took a while but it had to be done perfectly. I didn't get a picture of this step however they're using a hot metal rod to burn a small hole through the carpet before they then drill into the step below. This is to prevent the carpet from catching on the drill bit and tearing. These holes were then used to secure the rod (painted last week) with the little brackets (fabricated and painted last week). These have worked really well. They did run out of wall plugs (hah!) and had to go down to the shop for a second time to pick some up and also get some aluminium edging to finish the sides of the steps. Halil spent some time burning the edges of the carpet to prevent it from unravelling. By the end of the day the top descent was pretty much done, other than sides.

Some interesting shaped clouds

The men tidying away the long ladder

Shifting old workbench legs

Collecting sticks and playing with Xena

After school I had to leg it to the vet again with Thelma, but that was a quick trip, and when I got back it was time to prepare for the storm we are expecting to hit tomorrow. There were some interesting looking clouds around for sure already. I got the men to take the ladder down that had been leant against the wall while I watered, planted some spuds, moved a wheel barrow of rubbish to the village bin and generally tidied up. Bekir and Halil also shifted some wood removed from the old workbench and store it in the Green Building. As it got dark I quickly collected the last sticks from the old walnut tree and collected them together and under cover.

So there you are; another weekend reached. Thanks for reading, and back on Monday.