South Street Renovation

Almost done

Simon May — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:36:52 +0000

We’ve almost finished the front…

Front garden

Simon May — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:12:41 +0000

The front garden been an embarrassment for a while so we’ve thrown some effort at it. After one weekend the concrete is up, and the new little retaining Walls are (they wont retain much).

Pointing

Simon May — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:42:57 +0000

I’m not a massive fan of doing pointing. It’s slow, repetitative and boring. Looks good though if I do say so myself. Can you spot the difference?

The house, Jan 2010

Simon May — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:36:07 +0000

Well it’s been a while since we’ve updated but we’ve been furiously busy and the top floor is really starting to take shape. Here we go…

Starting up from the ground floor stairs the wall on the left has been plastered, it’s now flat.

Looking down the stairs the area around the front door is ready to be plastered.

On the first floor plastering continues but then the view up the first floor stairs improves…

And looking down you get a hint at what’s coming…

The entrance hallway to the 3rd floor then looking up you see light pouring in through the skylight… …and we’re into the top floor bedroom. Again the light coming through the bedroom skylight is beautiful and casts some great shapes because of the curves of the ceiling

Doing the loft

Simon May — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:40:18 +0000

Hall, stairs landing and back room

Simon May — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:21:54 +0000

We’re working on the hall, stairs, landing and back bedroom right now. Here’s some pictures

Front bedroom

Simon May — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:03:00 +0000

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!

Wow!

Simon May — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:00:27 +0000

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!

Another visit from the whirlwind!

Simon May — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:29:57 +0000

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!

Chim chimney chim chimney…

Simon May — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:31:09 +0000

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!