Dan has installed the partition wall for the bathroom and the batons for the moisture resistant plasterboard that will line this room (and square up the walls for the shower). It’s all beginning to take shape and we are finally getting an idea of how this room will look. It’s very exciting! What a pair.… Continue reading Bathroom beginnings!
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All hands on deck
Monday morning and we have a full house! Tom and George are back after 2 weeks away, Billy and Andy (our plumbers) are here for 2 days to do the first plumbing fix, and Sam (our electrician) is here to complete the work needed before the plasterers start. We also had a visit from Pete… Continue reading All hands on deck
Another day, another window
Sunday, we wake up feeling a little better, a little rested, slightly less emotional and ready to get back to it. Glynn is back to build a new oak frame for the window in the gable end wall, and repair Zanna’s bedroom window at the front. The frame being constructed, with the same profile as… Continue reading Another day, another window
Utter. F***ing. Exhaustion.
I am almost too tired to write this blog and I just want to switch off and watch the telly for once. I start the blog as soon as I wake up while I have my breakfast, then finish it after dinner in the evening (usually after 9pm nowadays) just before I go to bed.… Continue reading Utter. F***ing. Exhaustion.
OMG knee pads!
Last night an Amazon delivery man dropped a package on the doorstep addressed to Cat, before running away from our vicious dog. Bit puzzled as we hadn’t ordered anything and it came to the correct address, the house we are living in (we haven’t changed our delivery address yet). Someone had sent a pair of… Continue reading OMG knee pads!
Running low…
We are running low on energy, time, patience and daylight. It’s also turned really cold all of a sudden and the house is f***ing freezing. Cat continues working on the staircase, sanding and chiseling off the remnants of old paint. Cat looks like she is enjoying it here. She is not enjoying it. Every muscle… Continue reading Running low…
The old & the new
We are bloody glad that we covered over all the windows yesterday, we also covered parts of the roof where we know rain comes in. Today there have been some torrential downpours but all our covers are holding up and protecting our precious timber windows and floors. Dan has fitted the new oak posts that… Continue reading The old & the new
Our very own flypast!
Cat was up very early and by 8am she had already painted the outside of one of the metal window frames. We are keeping these windows as bare metal on the inside, but they are being painted on the outside. Blink and you miss her. Cat is now priming the landing window. Dan is repairing… Continue reading Our very own flypast!
Putty problem sorted
First thing Monday morning we took the metal windows back to Tamara Glass in Leamington Spa. They immediately got all their team on it and removed all the putty on the outside of all the frames! It took about 10 minutes and most of it came off very cleanly so we will only need to… Continue reading Putty problem sorted
It’s all about the windows
Another window themed weekend with highs and lows. We started on a high having collected these rather lovely metal lollipops from Ian Beck, a metal worker from Tysoe. Ian shares a warehouse with Dave our soda blaster and is another genuinely lovely man. Ian also owns Indie, the golden Labrador (the glove thief) who we… Continue reading It’s all about the windows