Ooooh - look at that!

Now, doesn't this look impressive? Yes, the wall with its plasterboarding firmly in place.

You can see where I've had to fit the plasterboard horizontally - I didn't trust myself to cut a piece (with 40mm of insulation glued to it) just 3cms wide - discretion was the better part of valour here - and it doesn't look too bad at all. Just imagine what it will look like with a new window there.

To be honest, I'm quite impressed with how it has all turned out. But there are a few things that have made a big difference, even if we don't include some proper studding.
Firstly, cutting the plasterboard. Simon taught me how to do simple sheets but I've been struggling with these sheets with insulation backing. But not any more - my tenon saw went through it all like a knife through butter and did an excellent job
Secondly - forget hammering nails and other messing around. I bought a bag of 4.2x80mm screws specially designed for plasterboard and while they were expensive they did a perfect job and I wish I had used them in the attic.
Thirdly, when I was in the USA at a Brico Depot, I found a pack of 4 screw bits specially designed for plasterboard screws. These bits have a kind-of capped head that stops the screw at the required depth and puts a little countersink in the board so that you can fill over the head. A pack of 4 cost me $4:98 and it is easily the best investment I have ever made.
Yes, having the correct tools and equipment has made a world of a difference to all of this.

The plasterboarding on this wall and the one on the left isn't finished though. It stops at 2m50 and the wall is 2m80 high. In the 30cms is where I have run the trunking for all of the electric cable and I need to cut sheets of insulation to fill over and around it and then fit some plain plasterboarding over the top, with the section for the front wall being castellated to fit around the beams.

Of course being Friday it's POETS Day - i.e. Pi... errr ... Push Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday and so I finished at 17:30, had a good wash and shave, and prettied myself up all ready for the shops tomorrow. And I have a list of things that I need for the room (starting with the windows of course).

But I'm as impressed with my plasterboard wall as I am with my galvanised steel dustbin.

Ohhhh - and I almost forgot. I told you that everywhere warmed up this last couple of days. Well, I'm having another night - in early January too - with no heating. In my little room the temperature is 13.6°C. Hardly the Cote D'Azur I know, but it's still warm enough to sit here. In fact I'm not sure whether it's to do with the temperature outside or whether it's anything to do with the fact that the insulation on the wall in the bedroom is starting to do its stuff.