Every morning all the windows have very heavy condensation running down them and pooling on the sills inside due to the moisture levels in the house. The plaster will take a while to dry out (2 weeks for the modern plaster, many months for the lime plaster…) and until then this will happen. It is… Continue reading Condensation & frost
Category: Bathroom
Mud. Not at all glorious
I actually checked the weather forecast last night and it said possible light rain showers in the morning. Lordy, massive understatement. Poor Tom and George got utterly drenched and the front garden turned into a slippy quagmire. Properly grim. Jo and Charlie are here to finish up the plastering and clean the house down. Cat… Continue reading Mud. Not at all glorious
Scoopy II
Scoopy returns!!! along with Tom, Dan and George to begin the home stretch to the finish line… Today we had 12 people working on the house, the busiest it has ever been on site, people were literally tripping over each other. We had Charlie, Alan, Mitch, Dan and Jo working on the plastering, Tom and… Continue reading Scoopy II
Fitting our lovely tiles
Monday morning and the bathroom tiling has begun! We’ve waited a long time for this day, to see our awesome tiles go up on the shower walls, so we are super excited today! Shaun the tiler has stepped in as our tiler has had to self isolate. We are hugely grateful to him! Today we… Continue reading Fitting our lovely tiles
Sneaky peek
What a beautifully sunny Autumn day, perfect for a sneaky peek at the roof now we can see it from the ground, it doesn’t disappoint. We can see more of the freshly pointed walls and the new/old roof and it’s everything we had hoped it would be, it’s looking so smart! We will have to… Continue reading Sneaky peek
Scaffold goes topless
The scaffolders return today to remove the tin roof and the sheets around the sides (which have been destroyed by a few storms). The four of them form a chain to pass the metal sheets down from the top. The first peek of our new dormer windows. They look lovely! Although we have spotted a… Continue reading Scaffold goes topless
Scaffold tidy up
Tomorrow the lid of our scaffold is being removed so that a new TV aerial can be fitted on to the chimney before the rest of the scaffold comes down next week, so today George is back to move everything that is left up there. George has sorted out all the left over tiles that… Continue reading Scaffold tidy up
Bathroom fitting begins!
A day that has been a long time coming (we bought the bath nearly 3 years ago), today Billy starts fitting the bathroom. Cat has been busy painting all the walls and ceiling this weekend so it would be ready and dry for Billy to start. Our anthracite bathroom radiator gets fitted on the wall.… Continue reading Bathroom fitting begins!
Our old front door
Having finished all of our windows, Glynn is now working on the old oak front door and frame. It is in a bit of a sorry state. There is a lot of daylight around the frame, there has been since we bought it, so we taped it up with black carpet tape to stop the… Continue reading Our old front door
A very special gift
Today our plasterers Charlie, Alan and Mitch surprised us with a very special gift! This beautiful piece of Pyrography has been specially made for us by Alan’s partner, Martha, and when we opened it we both cried! Such am incredible gift, personalised to us and the house and a lovely keepsake preserving Pear Tree Cottage… Continue reading A very special gift