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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
A series of pictures after my partner has spent many hours wallpaper stripping the woodchip wallpaper from lounge/diner and ceiling areas in the house. You’ll notice the false beams have also been removed and chopped up for firewood and moved to the dry wood store.
We now need to find a good plasterer to skim the lounge ceiling and a decorater to re-wallpaper the walls before painting.
The false beams were the wrong period for the house, which is Victorian.
A mountain of stripped wallpaper.
Those wall lights need to go to the tip as well. Who painted the ceiling with gloss paint, now I’ve got to sand it!
No beams
No beams
Beam me up Scotty!
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Just over two years ago we moved from a rural country location to a small Market Town in East Riding of Yorkshire after six years living in the country. I didn’t think I would miss the countrylife and soon got used to walking (mostly taking the car!) to the local shops. It was very convienient. But now I have a house again in the country…
Call me Joskin, Country Bumpkin or Wurzel, I don’t care, it’s going to be great to move back to the country at last!
Al’right my lover!
House with a View!
Original image, this will test that MaxADSL!
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Today the builders returned to apply the final skim of plaster to the freshly rendered dry walls.
Looks much better! Just await the fitting of new wooden skirting boards and the job is complete.
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
The render was applied before last weekend. The living/dining room looks like a room once again. The specialists tell me that gypsum based plaster (pink plaster) is not used to render the walls because it’s a moisturer absorber, and attracts moisture through the walls, so a sand/cement mix is used, which will be rendered with a thin skim of “pink plaster” so it can be painted.
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
All the plaster has been removed in the areas that require a lateral and vertical dpc.
lateral and vertical dpc installed. The dpc installed is a newer type being used in the last five years, which is a gell base, which is injected into the mortar, rather drilling into bricks and pressurising and pumping in.
partial rendering for tanking under stairs. This is required because the garage floor is higher than the lounge floor.
partial rendering for tanking in the bay window. This is required because the garden is higher than the lounge floor.
A very productive first day.
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Whilst the builders were knocking “hells bells” our of the lounge and dining room, we started to paint the first room in the house.
Before
After, 5 hours, one tub of white masonary paint, and one swollen ankle! Thanks to my partner for doing most of the expert painting.
Okay, so it’s not a room, but this is where the new fish house will co-locate to over the next few weeks.
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
We didn’t like the carpet, we’ve not even had the house 24 hours, and we’ve started knocking it about.
The carpet had to go, because tomorrow I hand the house over to the builders to install a damp proof course on the ground floor, so some of the plaster will be removed, damp proof course installed, tanked, and re-skimmed, and then we’ve got to find a new carpet!
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
We don’t like the carpet, it’s got to go!
We don’t like the wood chip wallpaper, it’s also got to go!
Umm, damp that’ll be fixed…
we don’t like the yellow walls either…
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