Everyday is exactly the same at the moment, which would be fine if each day was filled with good friends, fine wine and chocolate, instead of dust, rubble, face masks and sweat… Cat’s loving it. Cat is still raking out the large chimney breast. And removing screws and nails from all the timbers that will… Continue reading Groundhog day!
Category: Roof
Ugh Friday
It’s been a long week, but on a positive note the combination of holes in the roof and shit loads of dust can look very beautiful when the sun comes out! We are thinking about re-purposing some of the joists that came out of the loft floor as hand rails for the stairs. The shape… Continue reading Ugh Friday
OMG the dust…
Tom cutting a piece of steel down to size so it is the perfect fit for the cut through into Cat’s bedroom, from the old to the newer side of the house. This is the cut through with the ‘floating’ wall… Tom has already cut a channel for the steel plate to sit in and… Continue reading OMG the dust…
All four corners
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
Vertigo and cake
Weekend visitors coming to work on the house and bringing homemade birthday cake are most welcome! Sally and Laura popped by to take a look at the derelict house, and our older sister, Lucy, came to stay for the weekend and help, the first time we have seen her since Christmas. Cat and Laura being… Continue reading Vertigo and cake
Happy f***ing birthday!
This was not the birthday surprise I was hoping for today. Tom had wasted no time in investigating the corner of the gable end wall above the staircase, and there is now quite a lot of light in the upstairs rooms that wasn’t there before. The results of his investigation are not at all good…… Continue reading Happy f***ing birthday!
Dust + rain = mud, oh the glamour
It’s been such a grim week with the rain, that the dust in and around the house is turning to mud. And the dust is truly EPIC. You just have to look at the house and you are covered, everything in the house is caked in it. Our structural engineer, Martin, arrived this morning to… Continue reading Dust + rain = mud, oh the glamour
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
A dark day
Today Dan found a mummified rat in the attic and left in on top of this board in the skip. At head height. It had the desired effect. Although, we had our good friend Malgosia over (an animal fanatic) who took Roland rat home for a burial we think, but he may end up in… Continue reading A dark day