Oven and wires

In an effort to avoid plastering last night I fitted the oven instead. We had an electrician come by yesterday and start second fix - he found a bag of scruffy second hand sockets donated by a work colleage and proceeded to fit them around the kitchen. I had the foresight to get a few specialist connections, such as a couple of 45A hob/oven wall terminations, as well, and after his efforts we now have fixed power in the kitchen, and no other obstacles to getting the oven out of its box and fitted into it's housing.

Also spent an hour or so locating the wiring for the dining-room light. This had been previously lost once the plasterboard went up on the ceilings, with only a few cryptic marks on the walls to indicate where it might be. After some careful measuring and consultation with S as to where the light is actually wanted I put a 25mm hole in the ceiling adjacent to the joist carrying the wires.

The problem now was getting 4 bits of 3 core t&e through this hole. The floor directly above this point is the bathroom, which is tiled, and not coming up whatever the excuse. However the hallway adjacent to this has currently got exposed floorboards, and the run of the joists allowed me to reach along the void to the area above the hole.

The problem is, in fitting the plasterboard, one of the wires has been trapped between board and joist. After a lot of cursing and a fair amount of brute force (applied at arms length) I managed to free the trapped wire, and then it was simply a job of feeding the ends through the hole. We now have a spider of t&E hanging from the ceiling.

Meanwhile S has been labouring in the back bedroom, and it's now pretty much totally covered with lining paper. Result.