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
Category: Zanna’s Bedroom
Float coat
A short post today as it was a quiet day with only Charlie and Mitch on site and, after a morning of painting windows, Cat spent the afternoon asleep on the sofa. Charlie and Mitch are working on the second ‘float’ coat of lime plaster and plastering the ceiling in Zanna’s bedroom. The ‘float’ coat… Continue reading Float coat
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!
Leaded lights being fitted!
Another very exciting day! Today our restored leaded lights are being fitted by Lee Boswell and we cannot wait to see them… In the meantime our plasterers are back bright and early (they start at 7.30am!) and are moving upstairs to plaster Zanna’s bedroom and the landing. Zanna’s bedroom prepped and ready and awaiting the… Continue reading Leaded lights being fitted!
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
Lath & plaster
The first bit of lime plaster was added today after more preparations with metal gauze, laths and plasterboard and we both got very excited by this! Cat was not looking forward to starting her bedroom window. It is nowhere near the scaffolding, so it would have to be done on a ladder. Charlie and Alan… Continue reading Lath & plaster
Plaster preparations
A busy day of deliveries and preparations for the plastering. Five pallets of lime have arrived from Mike Wye & Associates and are taking up two parking spaces on the road. They will now await a crane to pick them up and carry them over our hedge and into the garden. Lime plastering is a… Continue reading Plaster preparations
Let there be light!
An exciting day today! The house is being prepared by Mike for his plasterers to start tomorrow. We now have every room lit up like it is Christmas with festoon lights and all the floors are now covered in Correx Board, on top of the Ram Board, for extra protection. Josh is back and is… Continue reading Let there be light!
Running out of steam
There is a lot to do this weekend, more windows, more cleaning and more hoovering to be ready for the plasterers to start next week but we are beginning to run out of steam… We are so tired. 8am Saturday morning and George is already on the scaffolding knocking back the pointing on the gable… Continue reading Running out of steam
Another leak…
After listening to the torrential rain all night pouring down the road and seeing the massive puddles everywhere this morning, we were dreading going into the house and not looking forward to what we might find. We were hoping for the best but expecting the worst… Good news and bad news. The good news first,… Continue reading Another leak…