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
Category: Exterior
Condensation & frost
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
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
Hanging the old front door
A cold, damp Saturday morning and Glynn is here to hang the old front door. We have also removed the plastic covers from the windows at the front now as they no longer need protecting from the elements. This is the first time we have seen the windows all together and they look even better… Continue reading Hanging the old front door
Last of the windows
Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning… This was dead right. It was super chilly this morning and by lunchtime it had turned very wet and rained well into the evening. Lee Boswell and his son returned to finish off the glazing on the windows. He has been delayed as the factory in Liverpool that… Continue reading Last of the windows
Beautiful!
A day we have been looking forward to for months, the day the scaffold comes down to reveal the front of the house and the roof. It’s all been hidden away behind the scaffold, until this morning. It rained all morning while they were taking it down but then the sky turned blue and the… Continue reading Beautiful!
Ugh-day
It was one of those days when I think everyone was feeling a bit ‘ugh’, I certainly did and eventually went back to bed in the afternoon as my neck and back pain was a little overwhelming. The weather was awful all day, cold and damp and grey, and the garden resembles a particularly rainy… Continue reading Ugh-day
Challenge Anneka!
Cat’s now working full time so it’s over to me to manage both houses and all the trades. It’s been an exhausting week culminating in a crazy Friday when I didn’t even have time for a cup of tea. It was a beautifully sunny morning with an azure sky after a night of heavy rain,… Continue reading Challenge Anneka!