Power tools

A very quick one, it is almost bed time. There is loads of interesting stuff going on at work these days, both positive and negative. Things become clear.

At home we are making steady progress. I spent the last two evenings opening up a chimney hole in between the first floor and attic. As it turns out, having seen the attic floor beams up close, they are not as bad as I thought. Meaning we will not have to replace them in the time we plan to stay in this house.

The roof though is another issue, let's hope we don't get any decent winter storms. We have a good insurance, that's no problem, but I'd rather not resort to that.

Back to the chimney hole: on Friday our fireplace will be installed, the real thing straight from Denmark or so. Since construction labor seems to be ever more expensive here in this banana republic I decided to cut the holes for our in-house chimney myself. Ground floor ceiling/first floor was no problem. We ran out of luck while going through the attic floor though: the hole was nicely blocked by a heavy wooden support beam. Real pine wood I'd say, it smelled nice when I cut it.

Anyway - the wooden beam was no match for some carefully planned non-standard use of power tools. I managed to even almost not damage the ceiling below.
If it were a DIY show on television they'd probably show "Don't try this at home".

Pictures will follow, once we have the fireplace.