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
Category: Stairs & Landing
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
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!
Sublime!
It was a day of lime plastering with the top coat being finished in the study and being added in Zanna’s bedroom, while a second coat is being added to the landing and stairs. Our freshly repaired old front door looking resplendent with a coat of oil. Mitch and Alan starting on the stairs and… Continue reading Sublime!
Sneaky peek
What a beautifully sunny Autumn day, perfect for a sneaky peek at the roof now we can see it from the ground, it doesn’t disappoint. We can see more of the freshly pointed walls and the new/old roof and it’s everything we had hoped it would be, it’s looking so smart! We will have to… Continue reading Sneaky peek
Scaffold tidy up
Tomorrow the lid of our scaffold is being removed so that a new TV aerial can be fitted on to the chimney before the rest of the scaffold comes down next week, so today George is back to move everything that is left up there. George has sorted out all the left over tiles that… Continue reading Scaffold tidy up
Our old front door
Having finished all of our windows, Glynn is now working on the old oak front door and frame. It is in a bit of a sorry state. There is a lot of daylight around the frame, there has been since we bought it, so we taped it up with black carpet tape to stop the… Continue reading Our old front door
Dining room progress
We were going to leave the dining room until phase 2, it is the half of the house that we will be tackling when we build the kitchen extension and convert the garage, but we have decided to tidy up the walls and get them lime plastered now. We will need to get the house… Continue reading Dining room progress