This has been our first week without builders on site since February 2023 (other than Christmas) and it’s felt extraordinarily quiet around the place. Having
Tag: Renovation
Dug, shaped, stoned and shuttered
Early Tuesday morning our concrete contractors arrived with two big diggers and a large trailer. They spent the week breaking up most of the existing
Stairway to… the games room
An exciting moment this week when our external stairs were installed up to the games room! We chose steel stairs over wooden ones because we
A new wall (well rendered anyway)
A week of beautiful weather resulted in a significant amount of progress. The week started with the plasterers finishing the rendering on the front of
The final weathertight touches
Two more tasks this week and now all of our buildings are now weathertight. The garage and laundry were both missing doors but as our
How to stop the rain…
It turns out the best way of stopping weeks of relentless rain is to finish installing a drainage system… We’ve had real issues with excess
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