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Stud walling 

14th Dec 2025 leyfarmcottages

Work has continued this week in our one bed cottage. All the insulation is now in and our carpenter has started putting in the stud wall between the bathroom, bedroom and kitchen. The plumbers

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Starting work on our one-bed cottage – The Cow Shed

7th Dec 2025 leyfarmcottages

Our builder arrived on site this week to start work on our one-bed cottage. We split the old dairy (the ‘shippon’) and cow shed into two – we extended one half

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A wet week

11th Dec 2023 leyfarmcottages

This week didn’t start as well as it could have done. We woke on Monday to find our main new drain cover had blocked overnight,

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Farmhouse painting commences

8th Oct 2023 leyfarmcottages

It’s been a pretty stressful week with so much to do at home and a busy few weeks at work, so this weekend it felt

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Painting begins

1st Oct 2023 leyfarmcottages

This week we started to prime the top floor of the farmhouse. The plasterers finished at the end of last week and we’ve been allowing

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Re-roofed!

25th Sep 2023 leyfarmcottages

We seem to have reached the stage where the jobs completed are very visible and are completed mostly within the week, so it feels like

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