Monday morning, another week, another hole. The chasm is being fixed by Tom & Dan today and they need to start by propping up the main A-Frame of the roof, as this is sitting on the end of the internal wall which is in real danger of collapsing. So they break through to the loft… Continue reading Break on through to the other side
Category: Sitting Room
House offers up more clues about it’s history
Come the weekend and we were both utterly exhausted, so took Saturday off and caught up with some sleep, washing and admin. On Sunday while Cat was stripping the sitting room walls of concrete and modern gypsum plaster, she discovered more newspaper underneath a bit of timber panelling around the old front door. This was… Continue reading House offers up more clues about it’s history
‘Stranger Things’ sized chasm
Friday has come around quickly this week. We are still trying to find someone who can cut the oak, but have found two companies who will supply AND cut the oak, thereby reducing the logistics and cost, quite dramatically. We would prefer to use the oak from Doug, but there would be so much wastage… Continue reading ‘Stranger Things’ sized chasm
Poo pipe
Typically, on the hottest day of the year, Tom & Dan are working outside, digging in the trench for the poo pipe. This mini digger, known as “Scoopy”, arrived to help out. A very suitable name for the poo pipe task I think you’ll agree. Now known as “Scooby poo”. The mains drainage is in… Continue reading Poo pipe
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!
It’ll get worse before it gets better
The day started well with an early morning delivery, this time it was the timber for the loft conversion, so for the floor and dormer windows. It’s quite a big pile so will sit outside until it’s needed. I’m glad it has stopped raining. The front wall in the sitting room was always going to… Continue reading It’ll get worse before it gets better
That Friday feeling
The scaffolders were back, nice and early, to add it to the back of the house. Still raining today but not biblical like yesterday. Only a minor panic as we have a mains electricity cable attached to the house at the back and this needed to be covered with a protector before the scaffolders could… Continue reading That Friday feeling
Rain, scaffolding & steel
I was awoken not by the beautiful sound of the starlings nesting next to my window, but by the unmistakable chinking of scaffolding poles. I never thought I would be happy to be awoken by this sound, but we had been waiting nearly 2 weeks for this! Of course it was raining, proper heavy downpours… Continue reading Rain, scaffolding & steel
Tackling the f***ed joists
So this has been a very long time coming. We have known for 3 years now that the joists in the ceiling downstairs, sitting room and study, were f***ed. Technical term. Seems to describe them very well. We removed the modern plasterboard ceilings, soon after we moved in, to expose the timbers and see the… Continue reading Tackling the f***ed joists
Got wood!
Monday morning and it didn’t start off too well. The (very expensive) oak we had delivered on Friday to be used for the new joists in the sitting room and study ceilings turned out to be the wrong size. Not by a little, but way off. Also the company we had bought these from were… Continue reading Got wood!