Good progress this week too on the house's newest room, the Utility Room. With the boys unable to tile indoors on the Friday due to the non-drying self levelling compound, they brave the chill weather and get the 2nd 'coat' of torch-on tar felt laid on the Utility Room roof. Inside, the floor gets its layer of screed. Dad channels Maurice the Midnight Joker (who laid the floors indoors) to mix his own screed 'dry-mix', rake it flat then level and smooth down with the float, producing a decent surface (not bad for a beginner; Sparks proclaims in one of his "that is acceptable" builder phrases "Grand Cake, Nora!"). This screed layer will get a coat of self levelling compound to seal it and will then be tiled with the same floor tiles as are in the house. It looks amazingly different from the water containment 'tank' we first saw. It is now a room with a nice floor, plastered walls and a good high (and watertight) roof. The tar-felt needs wrangling into 'hems' at the edges but that will wait till next week.
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