Opening  Bed and Breakfast Accommodation do the Big Jobs First
With money coming in from the guests and me still working ( progressed to running my own business selling potatoes door to door), we decided to take the plunge and start on the next floor where we had another three bed rooms.
We looked into obtaining a fire certificate with a fully operational fire alarm system and set about installing it with the help of an old friend and hotel engineer, actually I was the help, I owe him a plug, good old Mike Conner he went to China about 12 years ago and got himself married, Chinese food every night, yes!
I’m babbling, to get to the point we ended up close to wrecking the bedrooms we¬†already¬†had in use, with wires running all over the place, taking door casings off, ¬†installing fire bells and break glass alarm activators, all needed off course but what a mess. The system had to be installed in the whole house, in the cellars and up to the top of the second floor where no body went. For a business offering Bed and Break Accommodation if some one knock on the door we were in trouble.
A few years later we were in the same situation, all bedrooms quiet full, I was still doing my old job.   We decided to go for the top floor which would give us a eight room bed and breakfast accommodation.
When we got up there it was decided to take down a  dodge looking ceiling in the biggest room, it had a large bulge in the centre and looked as if it was going to come down at any minute, it was suggested put new plaster board over the old and jack up the centre, however it was thought that the 1872 joists would not take the weight, so we tuck it down, a big mistake, we sealed the room off as much as we could but there was 100 years of soot, dust and bird nests up there. My wife nearly killed me it was every were we had to get quite a few of the family round to help clean it up.
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