A few small jobs

Last weekend I managed to get around to doing a few small jobs. A couple of things were annoying me - not just because they hadn't been done yet, but because there were boxes of stuff lying around and I wanted to get rid of them. The first job that needed doing was the fire extinguisher. I don't know how many times I knocked the box with the extinguisher over. We had a bit of trouble deciding where to put the thing at all (we have a small one in the kitchen, so it didn't necessarily have to go in there too). In the end we decided to put it on the back of the chimney stack - i.e. in the corridor between my office and Eileen's room. It is now pretty much hidden from 'normal sight' (come to think of it, maybe that isn't such a good thing) but it is still easily accessible. Hopefully we'll never need it, but as they say, it's better to have it.

Another job - or rather two jobs - that badly needed to be done were the lights on the outside. Uli had left two cables through the insulation on the outside, so all that really had to be done was to install the lights themselves. One of the lights was a sensor light, which only comes on if (a) it is dark enough and (b) somebody passes by the front door. The problem here was that I had to turn off the electricity at the fuse box as there was no switch (with a sensor you don't need a switch). Once I figured out which fuse it was, it was quite easy to install the light. The other light is to the left of the balcony door (looking in). Luckily, there is a switch there, so I didn't have to turn off the electricity - just the switch. The light itself was pretty much the same as the one by the front door (except for the sensor) and so it was equally simple to install. The end result is quite nice, I think. The bulbs are E27 800 Lumen LED - both 11W. I don't imagine they'll be on all that much - although in summer, if sitting outside, it could be on for quite a while on some nights.