Tom has all four corners of the house to strengthen and repair. After our discovery of the earlier steeper roofline, we now know why the corners of the walls are cracked and crumbling away. They were built at a later date, but very badly and with small bits of stone, not large coursed stone, and… Continue reading All four corners
Category: Dining Room
What on earth is this?
More exciting discoveries today! This, whatever it may be, was discovered in Zanna’s bedroom. Obviously they are shelves, the top one is just like the other cubby holes we have found elsewhere in the house, but the one underneath is puzzling us… It appears to be stone, but could be concrete (although unlikely). It looks… Continue reading What on earth is this?
A better day
A much better day all round, thankfully. Dan and Tom got all the steel rods grouted in by lunchtime, the process was much quicker today after the frustrating start yesterday. The grout behaved as it should today and didn’t cause them so many problems. It’s not a job they enjoy though, and we do have… Continue reading A better day
Before & after shots
Estate agent photos from 2016 before we moved in versus where we are now. I’m not sure we are doing this right… Front of house Sitting room Sitting room Stairs from sitting room Dining room Dining room Study Landing Zanna’s bedroom Cat’s bedroom Bathroom Rear of house Back garden Old front door
Weekend carnage
Strictly speaking we haven’t planned to do any work to this side of the house (the dining room), but as we are having the house soda blasted top to bottom in the next 2 weeks, we have decided to have this room soda blasted too. Soda blasting, rather than sand blasting, is now the preferred… Continue reading Weekend carnage
Snapshots of history
Every time we do any work on the house we inevitably find pieces of newspaper, very handily as we can then date the part that we are removing. We can date all work that was done to the house to 1897, 1929, 1939, 1941, 1950, 1952, 1974 and 1981. This gives us a fascinating insight… Continue reading Snapshots of history
We’re gonna need more Acrow Props!
Martin, our structural engineer arrived today and it was very timely. We had a long list of things for him to look at, all of which, except the first one, were unplanned and unexpected finds: Buttress at rear wall – can we remove it? Main beam in study has been cut when the old steel… Continue reading We’re gonna need more Acrow Props!