The upstairs project

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Part 1, Structure

The first thing to do is re-do the secondary support to the roof (periling). This support is a miniature 'A' frame which gives the roof more support. This had to be created as it was not straight when they were installed. The timbers used for the roof timbers are 6x2", so an temp thing we reckon the roof could of supported without the need of the periling installed however for safety we had to add some temperately support, just in any case. Shown below:



after the temp support was in, we could adjust the periling to correct place - its new position. After a bit of measurement, levels and string level it was bolted and screwed rather than just nailed as before to the other roof timbers. This time what working with is a more straight room. Shown below:



After the roof timbers were sorted for the time being each end of the upstairs was took back to the bare walls, and both walls were took down a bit and re-tied into the external wall making the whole wall a lot more stronger. This wall will get some more work on later, how every it looked like this bare:



After the panels were built under the periling to link it to the floor timbers of the upstairs - the 'A' frame I talked about earlier. After theses panels were built and installed they had to fibre glassed and put plaster board on both sides to trap the fibre glass in. The end where the home cinema system is to be installed as 19mm thick ply wood sheets on the wall. There are roughly 2 to 3 full sheets of ply on each side, rather than just plaster board. The ply is to help reforce the walls. The other end of the 'upstairs' (the bit without the home cinema) is spaced out the 19mm with off-cuts of the ply, as we havnt got enough to do all of the 'upstairs'. The walls without any fibre glass, ply and only one layer of plaster board are shown below:



Once the walls were built for each side of the 'upstairs', the two end walls were re-worked on. A false wall was installed to basically take all the cables. This includes UHF (FM/TV), telephone, 7.1 surround sound speaker terminals, 5 power sockets (4 being double) and a tubing system installed to take any cables to the screen or the right side from the left side of the room where the receiver will be sitting. In the below picture you can see that the big red cable is the speaker ones, the top row of boxes are speakers, the second row are for data (left for sky if installed, middle for telephone, uhf etc. and the right is the tubing system.The tubing system is the big white pipe:



With this wall having all the cables installed it was time to fibre glass it, cover with the ply wood and then plasterboard over that. For those wondering what it looks like being done with fibre glass:



Onwards to page 3.