about 3 months ago - No comments
Things are moving forwards nicely so far this week – and it’s only Monday!
Lots of painting is being done, with vast quantities of raw plaster being covered with 1st coats of paint.
While paint’s going up downstairs I’m taking advantage of a few spare floor boards that had been left in the loft to replace More >
about 3 months ago - No comments
Just a quick update to say that a busy week is coming up…
Progress today includes lots of ground work to prepare the way – getting a couple of rooms nearly ready to finish off when a floor sander arrives on monday!
Window sills have been painted & coving “installed” in both main bedrooms. Tomorrows job More >
about 3 months ago - No comments
Now the plaster’s done, it’s time to crack on with the rest of the house.
The first couple of coats of paint have been applied to the main bedroom to seal & cover the newly dry plaster, and this weekend’s job is to start getting the proper top-coats of paint done along with all the More >
about 3 months ago - No comments
Reached a bit of a milestone over the last weekend – all of the replastering we needed to do for the moment has now finally been completed.
The Lounge has now been finished, along with the hall, staircase walls and upstairs landing walls!
The biggest benefit of this work being finished is that it means we More >
about 4 months ago - No comments
Things finally seem to be building up a solid head of steam & are starting to move forwards….!
Bedroom 1’s new plaster’s nearly dry and we’ve made inroads today into getting the room finished.
The carpet’s been pulled up to reveal a floor that has tons of potential if sanded & varnished; skirting has been stripped & More >
about 4 months ago - No comments
Haven’t posted anything to here for a while, but work is needless to say very much ongoing!
Since the last post bedroom 1 has been replastered (and is still currently slowly drying out before we can paint it!); walls & ceiling in bedroom 2 have been repainted; walls in the “en-suite” have been repainted and we’ve More >
about 4 months ago - No comments
Ripped out the window seat to find a hole in the plaster – complete with filling in the form of a copy of some pages of the Eastern Evening News from April 15th, 1976!
Definitely the EEN…
It’s a “Late Final edition”, presumably from the days when two editions were actually produced (!), More >
about 4 months ago - No comments
Just a quick update:
Lounge has now been completely wallpaper stripped & prepared for replastering.
All looking a touch bare at the moment but that should hopefully start to change rapidly now.
Next stop is to tidy up what appears to be a patched-over serving hatch (!)
and to remove a window seat/ cupboard currently adorning the bay window…
While More >
about 4 months ago - No comments
While waiting for quotes from our plasterer, we’ve made a start on wallpaper stripping in the lounge. The walls in here appear fine at first glance, but looking again reveals niceties like a badly-patched serving hatch & poor quality plaster repairs – all of which are only going to disappear if the walls are reskimmed.
Here More >
about 4 months ago - No comments
It was long & drawn out… but the built in wardrobes are no more.
(Start to finish in about 4 hours !)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an over-engineered construction in a bedroom! Today’s flat-pack offerings are positively fragile in comparison, but on the plus side if you decide More >
positive discovery – all of upstairs bar the ensuite extension has good quality floorboards throughout rather than chipboard.
A quick test of the varnish we’re looking to use seems to have resulted in a nice finish on sanded boards – which is good even if it does seem to need 3 coats!!