After a week off doing other things I have continued with the new floor. The smallest room proved to be the most fiddly.

And there is still enough to do the inside of the walk-in wardrobe.

Another day’s progress on the flooring project. The kitchen (galley, if you speak boat) has proved quite tricky, as I anticipated. Lots of not-quite-square angles and difficult gaps to plan out.

I made a template/jigsaw initially, to plan out the spacing and gaps. I wanted to have a level floor under the fridge  (important for it to run smoothly) and under the oven.  The oven is supported on the sides, so this is for looks rather than functionality. After several hours work I think all has been achieved.

There is still plenty to do to finish the job, all the trims and little finishing bits that will take nearly as long as the main part of the job. And the corridor and bathroom, they will have to wait until tomorrow. Speakers of ‘boat’ will know the bathroom is known as the heads but I’m writing for the English speaker here. The term heads apparently comes from the Navy, when ship’s loos were a large room with cubicles having four foot high walls, thus you saw a row of heads in the room,  just in case you wanted to know..

I had been thinking about replacing my worn out and rather tatty carpet for a while. After a lot of research and thought I opted for engineered wood floor, this is interlocking planks made up of a plywood base and a layer of real wood laminated on top. The experts claim it is less susceptible to temperature and humidity changes and is thus suitable for use on boats.

The job is now underway, carpets and battered lino are out and new floor going in. Yesterday started with this

And today has finished with this. The right hand side (in the picture) was easy enough but there was a lot of cutting in and difficult angles to work out along the left side.

So that is the living area done, tomorrow will see the kitchen being transformed, plenty of awkward fiddly bits to tackle there.