today we started using up our stash of pergo flooring that we sniped off ebay, to panel the walls. first up was the annoying, kind of sloping, kind of curving space between the edge of the roof and the flattish sides.
it was a fairly straightforward job, although that pergo stuff disnae half take a toll on sawblades and drillbits. the veneer on it is as hard as iron.
o well - at least it should be pretty hardwearing then!
driller killer
drilling some countersinks for the screw heads. unfortunately the photo disnae capture the whisps of smoke and smell of burning, coming from the rock-hard veneer.
mazza surveying her handywork; while i cut the planks and drilled the holes, she screwed them into place.
at the weekend mazza sniped a load of pergo flooring plus underlay on fleabay for £21. apparently this represents good bargain hunting, as mazza assures me that pergo is the dog’s bollox, when it comes to poncey interior decor and all that. so scoring a load of it for a pony [as del boy might say] was a bit of a steal.
we went to pick it up tonight from some posh gaff out towards didsbury way. the couple in the house looked delighted to see us disheveled scruffy looking gits turning up in our prehistoric van to collect their former arm & leg’s worth of kitchen flooring for twenty measley quid.
luvvly jubbly!
so, even if the rest of him is a nothing to write home about, at least some of herman’s wall panelling should impress any passing royalty who drop by to borrow a cup of diesel.
