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
Category: Sitting Room
The heat is on
Disappointingly the addition of the dehumidifier and the fan made very little difference to the condensation levels on the windows this morning. I am still mopping up pools of water on the sills and as soon as I dry the windows they are steaming up again… We need to get more heat in the house.… Continue reading The heat is on
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
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
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
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
Even more sublime!
Cat is now away until Friday, having left at 5.30am to be in Bristol for work, so I will be holding the fort until then… Mitch was off today so Alan was on wheel barrow and mixing duty in his absence. The second coat of lime is being added to the dining room, the first… Continue reading Even more sublime!
Repairing the old door
Saturday morning and Charlie was back before 8am to finish off the top coat of lime in the study, he needed to work it after it had dried but not gone off, hence leaving it overnight. What a star! This morning the tiler was coming to fit the tiles in the shower but he didn’t… Continue reading Repairing the old door