Chippyjoe":1x2vgaj9 said:
Virtual pint for you, sir, not quite, but near enough. The spur is directly centred above the double socket below it, but all the sockets should be centred on the middle of a stave, but they aren't!
They are all off a little, getting worse towards the LHS. The electrics went in when the ply substrate was up - I measured in from the windows, and set out the backboxes out from the centre so the middles would fall in the middle of stave.
All well and good, but then some time later, setting out the ceiling, I set the datum with a line along the sight line through the big french doors, so that the line of staggered joints followed perspective looking out from the dining room through the kitchen - the staves were set at 90 degrees to that. Inevitably, the kitchen isn't quite square, and the staves slide sideways just a touch over the length of each row but enough to make the sockets off-centre on the staves.
She has the patience of a saint, she'd rather I cut many more corners and got the bloody thing done. I'd guess it's a total of about 15/20 solid days work.
Exactly where I was, and a large part of the reason for the stupid risk-taking - I was dying to try it out and it was my first excuse.
I thought it was remarkably simple to use. The only problem I had was the orange peel patches, which were where I was working overhead, and tilted beyond the permissible angle wrt the pressure tube,and the gun started spitting on and off for a few moments, then the real mistake was that I think I overcompensated for the incomplete coverage by going back over it.
