The fun of no old building being straight forward. So making a room larger by sacrificing a toilet. Cut some board to check stud arrangement.
Cut the board away
remove poly insulation and cut some new pieces to support the new door and wall, and another piece to support the replacement plasterboard
getting a good perp line
cut the ceiling out ready for the header
other wall is masonry with solid plaster (not board), set out chase
set depth and started chasing, will have to finish off top of bottom by hand
back to head, the visible board is false and attached to short timbers that’s then attached to the under side of the true joists
sods law but that piece of timber isn’t wide enough for fixing the new header timber as it needs fixing to something solid. got access from the loft space, this gave access to the original plaster under the original joists. cleared it away ready to take a new timber length
(this is looking from loft, down - what’s more fun is that the original joists have counter timbers over them, probably to allow boarding out of loft where pipes were in the way.
only if this is vaguely interesting, I’ll keep posting 
