Another awful wet Saturday with torrential rain and howling gales. Thankfully Glynn has very nearly finished working on the outside of the windows (just a small bit of adjustment work needed on one) and is building the frame for the internal window in the partition wall between the landing and Zanna’s bedroom. Previously there was… Continue reading A very special window
Category: Stairs & Landing
Space blanket: 1, men: 0
A very busy day on site with 8 vans outside our house at one point! Huge apologies to all our neighbours and the driver of the daily bus service. Tom and Dan are back to fit the insulation in the loft, a job they have not been looking forward to and I now know why!… Continue reading Space blanket: 1, men: 0
Heavy metal
This roll of lead weighs the same as a grown man. This is the super thick lead (code 6) that will be going on the cheeks of the dormers. The lead that was retro fitted into the oak frame yesterday. The front of the dormers are being rendered, but they need a lead sill to… Continue reading Heavy metal
Super busy day
Further great progress was made today with the plastering, the roof and the timbers. The stud wall between the landing and Zanna’s bedroom has had the traditional laths added ready for the lime plaster. Alan meticulously adding the lime plaster. This bit of wall was originally (badly) constructed with chip board and pine and was… Continue reading Super busy day
OMG the last window!
Thank the lord for that, but in true Pear Tree Cottage style, it saves the worst until last. This window was way beyond repair, so Glynn is building a new frame out of oak, again in a day! Not only that but it rained all bloody day and there is no shelter under the scaffolding,… Continue reading OMG the last window!
Frantic Friday
We had a full house today and it was pretty full on with masses of tasks ticked off the to do list! Tom, George and Dan were back for the day to work on some urgent tasks that would otherwise hold up the plasterers and roofers next week. We have two cement mixers working today,… Continue reading Frantic Friday
Finished ceilings!
A great day for the house with lots more progress, not such a great day for us with Cat being full of cold and exhausted, Zanna with a sore back after treatment and Jasper with his missing claw… Cat & Jasper had a well needed day off spending the morning in bed, then the afternoon… Continue reading Finished ceilings!
Roof tiles going on!
Our roofers, Roger, Pete and Bo, are back today to start fitting the roof tiles. Another super exciting day, for us anyhow, not for them as they have the fiddly bottom rows of tiles to fit, the rows that run out to compensate for the walls that have moved out. A bastard of a job.… Continue reading Roof tiles going on!
The Mary Celeste…
Monday morning and there is only Cat on site, working on the windows of course, as no one else has turned up today. Our builders Tom and Dan’s job they were on last week has overrun so they won’t be back until Wednesday (hopefully!), and the plasterers are on another job for the day. This… Continue reading The Mary Celeste…
Weekend of windows & tidying
Our next deadline looming is for the windows. We have Lee coming on Tuesday next week to fit our renovated lead windows, so Cat needs to have all the window frames primed and painted inside and out. Saturday morning and Glynn is back to repair Cat’s window this time. It is one of the worst… Continue reading Weekend of windows & tidying