by adminUS | Apr 23, 2020 | Cottage
Doing what we can We’d just started digging out the floors but luckily hadn’t ripped out the bathroom when lockdown happened. So other than having to walk through mud to have a shower we’re doing ok and looking forward to getting back to work when it’s safe for...
by adminUS | Mar 3, 2020 | Cottage
Finally watertight Scaffolding went up in November and with bad weather and busy roofers it’s taken quite a while to get the roof watertight… ‘I realised I hadn’t really taken any photos of the problems with the roof – loose, broken or...
by adminUS | Mar 1, 2020 | Cottage
Pneumatic drills start again… So it’s time to start digging out the floors in what was cottage no.1, so the pneumatic drills have started again… well sort of! The builders moved back in with their pneumatic drills to break out the old concrete floors...
by adminUS | Feb 18, 2020 | Cottage
More destruction And now for phase two of phase 1 – digging out the floors in the other half of the cottage, insulating and getting some heating in – plus a bathroom, 2 bedrooms and utility room. Before the team arrive on Monday with their pneumatic drills...
by adminUS | Feb 17, 2020 | Cottage
Plastering perfection No more mouse holes… as I like to call the holes in the ceiling – thanks to Pete you can’t even see they were there… apart from our poor painting so far. Ahh yes the mice – we have plenty of field mice that have...
by adminUS | Jan 21, 2020 | Cottage
Kitchen update It was a slightly depressing December as far as progress was concerned… we thought we’d have a kitchen for Christmas but a delay with our builder on other jobs meant that we didn’t start installing until a few days before, and then the...
by adminUS | Dec 14, 2019 | Cottage
countryside There’s nothing better on a cold winters day than curling up on the sofa in front of a roaring fire… well we don’t have the sofa yet as the kitchen is stacked in that room but we do have an amazing new/old inglenook and wood burner. From...
by adminUS | Dec 7, 2019 | Cottage
And finally… heat It’s an exciting week in Northumberland… the underfloor heating has been turned on for the first time and we almost have a warm house – well half a house! The wonderful team from DPC Screeding were so efficient at laying our...
by adminUS | Nov 19, 2019 | Cottage
adminUS The past month has flown by and it may not look like we’ve got very far but we now have floors, insulated floors! Concrete was poured, and the holes from air vents under the wood floor in the bedroom were filled in (no wonder it felt drafty in there as...
by adminUS | Oct 14, 2019 | Cottage
How does the old saying go… it’s going to get worse before it gets better! Well more floors have been dug up, more walls have been pulled down… but rooms are starting to take shape. What was once a dining room, a teeny kitchen and a bathroom is now...
by adminUS | Oct 9, 2019 | Cottage
I love it when you uncover something that’s been hidden for decades… The small open fireplace we’ve been using to keep warm was always going to be replaced with a sealed multifuel stove. So the stone surround and inset was removed and on one side we...
by adminUS | Oct 6, 2019 | Cottage
As the cottage has no heating so no existing pipework we’ve decided underfloor heating is the way to go. However as the building has gone from four cottages, to two when we bought them, to one now, it means we have different floor levels, poured at different...
