Jan
18
We’re working on the hall, stairs, landing and back bedroom right now. Here’s some pictures
Nov
30
This is me sanding the floor with a really heavy industrial sander…there was a lot of dust and it was all a bit crazy….it was also seriously hot.
The floor did look good when it was done though. After we did this we did a lot of sanding and then we papered the walls with lining paper. It was frustrating!
We’ve also put up some old fashioned coving!
Aug
05
Here we go, some pictures of the very starkly painted white lounge. It’s only white to seal the plaster…we’ve moved into the lounge though!
Jun
03
Whilst we were away, Bill came down and did a fantastic job on the lounge, well what will be the lounge. When we left it was pretty bare, and there was no floor on the back section – what will be the dining room and it was brick walls everywhere. When we came back the walls were pretty much plastered and the dining room floor was laid with 3 inch thick concrete. That floor took 63 bags of sand to complete.
A couple of weekends before we went away we got some much needed help from Phil, Steve and Pat to fill two skips, unfortunately the frantic pace of filling the skips meant that we forgot to get any photographic evidence…
Finally for this post are some pictures of the now very nearly complete kitchen, with grouted tiles and everything!
Mar
30
This weekend’s fun came in the shape of doing a number of odd jobs on Saturday by putting up blinds and tiling upside down, but more on that in a second.
This is Donna bravely taking down the top of the small chimney stack on the old kitchen roof. As you can see it was slightly on the windy side so a really silly hat was called for.
Taking it down wasn’t too hard, it kind just fell apart and only needed a little teasing with hammer.
After the chimney came down we got on with some tiling. The last few bits of upside down tiling – the underside of the chimney in the kitchen that’s going to have the cooker hood in it and the top of the chimney.
Keeping the pattern in check was a little on the tricky side, but the final effect looks really rather good we think!
Mar
24
Firstly lets start off with what was the old bathroom, you should be able to find some pictures on here of what it used to look like. Whilst we were doing this we learnt something new. Iron baths are extremely heavy!
We also found out that they used to put tiles on really well in the 1900s as we we couldn’t even move some of them with a lump hammer. It took Donna most of the day to make this mess.
We’ve left the loo in because we didn’t quite know how to take it out without leaving a nice open sewer in the room.
The bottom left picture is of the chimney breast after it had been tiled to about three quarters of the way up, the tiles will go right to the ceiling.
It looks really nice, and quite like a kitchen really! Finally here is the other side of the room.
Mar
12
The guy from Building Control came today. We have a short to-do list
- Get calculations for the RSJ
- Insert padstones under the RSJ
- Install air extractors in the toilets
- Install an escape velux on the front of the house
- Get the Kitchen electrics certified
Simple.
Mar
05
We’ve just out in our regularisation application with building regs for the wall, the kitchen, the toilet, the bathroom and the stairs. Guess we just have to see what yet say!
Feb
19
Well all we are excited! Last night, for the first time in months, we had Pizza and garlic bread…cooked at home…in our own oven…win our own kitchen…with some wine which we tool from our built in fridge. We were happy.
Next weekend…upstands and tiling!
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