Saturday morning, Cat is back for the weekend and we are at Warwick Reclamation looking for stone steps. We need two front door steps and two steps to go from the front path up to the garden, to be built into the new retaining wall. Mark, who was super helpful, spent a long time with… Continue reading One step beyond
Category: Exterior
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!
Graffiti regrets
I am sure Cat will find this funny when she returns on Friday. This is so true. Even Jasper got a BIG mention. It’s that time of year when fence posts grow gloves. Dan is cutting the elm floor board to fit the edge of the tread that he is repairing. He is extending it… Continue reading Graffiti regrets
Man vs root
The very good news is that all the portable heaters have made a huge difference to the condensation on the windows. This morning is the first morning for a couple of weeks that there hasn’t been pools of water on every window sill, in fact most sills were dry! Thank god for that as the… Continue reading Man vs root
Warming up, cleaning up and drying up
Saturday and Cat is back from Bristol but we are so knackered and utterly fed up with the house that we decide to have a day off house stuff. With so much yet to do and a huge clean up process to begin, we simply don’t know where to start. It is so overwhelming that… Continue reading Warming up, cleaning up and drying up
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
Moisture levels rising
Every morning I have to mop up the condensation on the inside of the windows which is caused by the moisture coming out of the plaster on the walls. It is better this week than last week, but not by much! We have 2 small fan heaters on all day and night in the house,… Continue reading Moisture levels rising
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
Glorious, despite the mud
What a glorious day! It was cold but dry and the sun shone all day, perfect as we needed the sun to dry the lime pointing out, it is taking much longer to go off than it should as everything is so wet… Tom and George knocking back the pointing they added yesterday around the… Continue reading Glorious, despite the mud
Drain pipe world
Who knew this place even existed? Europipes in Shipston-on-Stour is a vast site (with a huge warehouse) with pipes and drains as far as you can see, Jasper was astounded. It was a quick pick up of more land drain bits and pieces, angles, T-joints and rubber adaptors (also, who knew land drain piping was… Continue reading Drain pipe world