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
… we’d happily take watching paint dry over watching plaster dry out.
Paint never seem to take that long to dry to the point that you can move on and do something with the wall. Fresh plasterwork on the other hand seems to take forever to properly dry out!!!
Ah well… plenty more to be doing… 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 4 months ago - No comments
Great progress today – starting to feel like the house is slowly coming together now.
Lounge plastering is well underway; bedroom 1 has had all of the remaining mess/carpet tape removed along with the first coat of paint on the replastered walls & ceiling and the remaining paintwork in bedroom 2 completed.
We’ve 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 >
about 4 months ago - No comments
First “real” task on the agenda (after yesterday’s clean etc) is to strip out a er, lovely built in wardrobe.
Looks like it was knocked up by an over zealous chippy when the house was built – complete with a fine example of 1970’s wallpaper for good measure.
Definitely has to go…. Only question is More >
