These are the proposed plans for the house which I have used to create the plan for the electrician showing where all the lights, switches, sockets, etc. need to be. I have just realised it would probably be useful to upload the plans to the website so you can see the house layout, I will… Continue reading Going to plan (for once)
Category: Dining Room
Cleaning the house with a toothbrush
My task this week is to clean the plaster and orange dust from the timbers and stone in the study, ready for Cat and Colin to paint this room at the weekend. These are the tools for removing the plaster from the timbers, a chisel and a small wire brush the same size as a… Continue reading Cleaning the house with a toothbrush
More colour choices…
Another delivery from Fenwick & Tilbrook, this time Major Tom in Pure Matt emulsion as we ran out of this in claypaint for the modern wall on the landing and it needs at least one more coat. As it is modern plaster we are going to paint over it in the emulsion as it will… Continue reading More colour choices…
All hands on deck
Colin is up the ladders again for the weekend, back to help Cat paint the ceilings in the stairwell and landing. There is a lot of cutting in to do in the stairwell as there are so many beams and edges and there are two mist coats to do before two top coats! We have… Continue reading All hands on deck
Winding down for Xmas
Today it rained and rained and rained so Tom and George arrived and left soon after, although George did brush down the mortar that wasn’t too wet before he went. George will be back tomorrow morning to do the same. Another cracking photo of Cat (sorry). She has tackled the kitchen and I wish I… Continue reading Winding down for Xmas
Ooo shelves!
We kept all of our old broken and worn tiles from the roof to use as hardcore for the drains. Here they are being used for drainage in the bottom of the soak away in the back garden. It’s another horrid damp day outside for Tom and George, but inside the windows remain almost completely… Continue reading Ooo shelves!
Almost a whole plate
It was another cold and damp day with just George on site, but it is Friday, thankfully (Fridays do come around quickly at the moment). George is digging the trenches at the back deeper, the ground level outside is again higher than the ground level inside, not as bad as the front but it still… Continue reading Almost a whole plate
A little planer
Dan has borrowed a little planer to plane the narrow 1 inch oak boards that we got from Doug Hutsby. These are to be used for the architraves and fillets around the doorways (new back door, dining room door and bathroom door) so need to be a thinner. There are also 4 lengths to plane,… Continue reading A little planer
The giant claw
7.30am as I was getting out of the shower, I heard a very large lorry outside. The grab lorry was here to remove all the clay that we have dug out of the trench. Good job I was up! The walk way that George had constructed up the mud mountain yesterday so he could make… Continue reading The giant claw
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