![]() Once the room is cleared and sheeted down, including the floor, you may need to install your temporary lighting and remove any light fittings in the ceiling and make safe any wires that you disconnect (don’t forget to isolate the supply first!). ![]() Don’t ask me how I discovered that little gem as a young apprentice! Lighting The dust is very fine in particle size and it gets everywhere, really, I mean it, everywhere! If you have to sheet down some stuff, I would recommend that you include a polythene layer as the dust is often fine enough to go through the average dust sheet. All that mess comes from the accumulated dust on top of your old plasterwork and from within the plasterwork itself. You can also just make out the trestles which, when coupled with scaffold battens made a perfect working platform for removing this high ceiling. Oh, and in case you were wondering, this kitchen was coming out. Seriously, it makes so much dust that I recommend that you remove everything from the room and seal off the doors with masking tape before you start. Before you start please consider………”The mess” Electrical screwdrivers for removing old light fittings.Rubble sacks (or Gorilla style tubs if you have a skip).Dust protection such as Polythene and dustsheets.Optional other gear… (depending on your situation) Shovel, sweeping brush, dustpan etc and vacuum cleaner (preferably not the missus’s best one!). Pick axe (optional but useful for getting the old laths down). ![]()
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