I have dodgy noggins, doctor.

Kitchen ceiling down, revealing noggins put up by Stevie Wonder.  Solution: off with them!  Yo ho ho.

 Cut at an angle with a nice Disston D6 saw that's older than my dad and still going strong so I can belt them off with the hammer without them jamming.  Nice arm-burner, this.

All off after a hell of a lot of hard work, and all the 6-inch nails pulled out.  Top Tip: don't pull nails, push them by hammering a slightly smaller nail into the hole to back them out.  Much easier!

Still got a long plank of wood to remove from the back which held the false ceiling, which I can't get to because the beam's in the way.  Answers on a postcard please...

There's some rot in my kitchen...

...what am I gonna do?

Its like a goth's bedroom with all this black lacy stuff draped everywhere...

It's wet rot this time.  There was a dry-lined, insulated, metal stud wall on the window side, and look what was behind it.  Yet again more proof that modern impermeable materials in an old house do not work.  The rot is in all the wood, and most of it has the consistency of soil.

Discovered a wee alcove behind a cement false wall, and the lintel is knackered.









Big Hammer sorted it though.  All off, let it dry out and replace rotten wood.  Simple.  Really!

 This will make a nice alcove with shelves in the new kitchen.

A sample of the wiring - this is for the oven.  The back wire is a piece of steel wire poking into the soil on the other side of the wall - a crap version of an earth.  Again, the solution is - all out, replace properly!