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.
I purchased a flatpack water butt today called a Rainmate(R) to help me store 200 litres of water ready for the fish house move. The first flatpack water, self-assembly water butt, delivered to my door!
The water was filtered via my HMA filter and heated to the correct temperature used by the aquariums in the fish house.
Before Assembley Flatpack in box.
After 2 hours, I could probably have done with some help, two people would have made it easier to assemble!
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.
The reason for the lack of posts in the last few months, is on the 11 July 2006, we completed on a new house. Since April 2006, I’ve been very busy with the purchase of a new house.
Yes, and that means the fish house will be moving, not the website, that can stay here, but the fish house will be moving here:- (Our House Blog!).
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.
The damp proof course has failed, and the 10 year guarantee has expired long ago. So we are currently having this rectified on the house. We’ve contracted the entire job to Hambleton Preservation Services.
They arrived promptly at 8.30am today to start the work.
A picture of Hambleton Preservation Services on a tea break.
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!
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…
We finally completed on our new house today and I collected the keys at 1.30pm, and at 2.00pm met the Damp Surveyor.
This is it!
I think I might need a sit on lawn mower! I’ve also found a plum, pear, apple tree and a christmas tree in the garden!
and a petrol hedge trimmer!
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