Power to the Office!

The one problem with the new office is that it doesn’t have any power. The old bedroom only ever had 12v lights and we had never got round to putting in the mains power sockets. It was Ok to run the bedroom of an extension socket but running the stuff for the office wouldn’t be a good idea, so we have to put in some sockets.  So time to get out the hammer and chisel and get to work, I just hope there aren’t to many large rocks in these walls.

One done, two more to go.

Should be one at this end, OK back to work

Once the holes were cut out for the boxes, which had to be done carefully by hand so as not to make to much mess of the wall. Then it was time to break out the power tools. Awhile ago we brought a tool for the SDS drill which cuts a channel ready for conduit. This made short work of cutting the channels down to the floor, where we drilled through to down stairs where the power will be fed from.

All the cutting out done now, time to fit the boxes.

Once all the cutting and drilling was done it was time to put the boxes into the wall, This is done with plaster of Paris, which sets very quickly. To make sure the boxes for the sockets are level we use our wooden jig which holds the boxes in place while the plaster sets.

Boxes in, jig also makes sure that all boxes are in line.

and the one at the other end.

As we are moving things around we need to reroute a couple of the network connections, one of these is in the dining room but we can sneak a new conduit in through the back of the wall.

A connection sneaked through the back of the wall.

All the boxes fitted and ready for cement render.

Now it time to mix up a little cement to fill in the channels we cut for the conduit. Once done this will need a few days to dry before we can apply the final coat of plaster.

All done, now needs to dry.