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
Category: Study
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
Before & after shots
Estate agent photos from 2016 before we moved in versus where we are now. I’m not sure we are doing this right… Front of house Sitting room Sitting room Stairs from sitting room Dining room Dining room Study Landing Zanna’s bedroom Cat’s bedroom Bathroom Rear of house Back garden Old front door
Up on the roof
The happy scaffolders returned with all the tin panels required for the lid to finish the scaffolding. We are now able to get up to see the roof as they have fixed ladders to the front. We also now have boards at first floor level (to enable access to fix the windows) and plastic sheeting… Continue reading Up on the roof
Not got wood
After uncovering the window seat in what will be our new bathroom, we suspected we might find the same in Zanna’s bedroom. The house didn’t disappoint! Another old oak window seat, but with this comes another hollow wall… To be honest this is the least of our worries with this part of the wall. This… Continue reading Not got wood
There’s a hole in the ceiling
Today the ceiling comes out and the new oak and steel goes in. This half of the study has the worst ceiling in the house. As you can see it has been rudimentarily fixed some decades ago with pine timbers literally nailed into the old joists. The original joists were in such a bad state… Continue reading There’s a hole in the ceiling
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!