the door frame disintegrated into dust !
Mike !! I called our builder into the front hall, and pointed to the architrave around the door frame leading into the drawing room..I think this is rotten, do you think it should be cut and spliced or filled? He bent down and poked it with his finger, his finger went straight through the wood. With no resistance. The wood crumbled away and left a pile of dust on the decorative hall floor. OOh eck! I exclaimed...that was worse then I originally thought. I poked the wood further with my index finger and found soon I could insert my whole hand inside the wood frame. I can only describe the disintegration of the wood rather like watching sand fall through an egg timer. Wood that was no longer the consistancy of wood but instead very fine brown dust. Or like a Flake chocolate bar held together very delicately with lots of holes running through it and when you bite into it it just crumbles into nothingness.
That door frame is about as good as a chocolate fire guard, he told me. It needs to be removed and rebuilt.. So...yet another Lanoy hiccup.
On the bright side. Most of the new plasterwork is now done, and the pink plastered walls are drying out nicely. The new loft hatch and ladder have been fitted. I need to source some floorboards from a reclamation yard, so that will be my weekend job. rummaging through piles of antique wood trying to find boards of the same thickness as the ones we have. Some skirting needs to be replaced. Some was completely missing when we bought the house - no doubt if i look i will find it out in the barn.
There's lots of finishing off jobs to do. Little itty bitty bits all over. Doors need refitting, rehanging new locks, bits of skirting put back, holes filled in. cleaned off scrubbed down and then paint paint paint.
I am in the process of ordering a bespoke bath to be specially made. I just hope i have got the measurements correct ! Otherwise we will have a very large very expensive horse trough!!!
Finally decided on the layout of the bathroom and the fittings needed. So that all needs to be ordered this weekend. Floor coverings too, thats on the to do list. We have decided on contract industrial type wood floors in some rooms and carpets in the bedrooms. The stair carpet will be black and cream stripy and bound on the edges, so they lay it, fit it, cut it, and then remove it again. Take it away bound all the raw edges and then some back and fit properly.
After much research we have decided on diamond eggshell paint for the walls. At fifty five quid for a 5ltr tin its flippin pricey ....but its lovely stuff to work with. Its what the professionals use. So much pigment in the paint, its covers extremly well and gives a superb finish and has a good deep lustre. Stevie has found a new passion...painting. He's getting really good at it. Nice even coverage, no drips or lines. A perfect finish .
That door frame is about as good as a chocolate fire guard, he told me. It needs to be removed and rebuilt.. So...yet another Lanoy hiccup.
On the bright side. Most of the new plasterwork is now done, and the pink plastered walls are drying out nicely. The new loft hatch and ladder have been fitted. I need to source some floorboards from a reclamation yard, so that will be my weekend job. rummaging through piles of antique wood trying to find boards of the same thickness as the ones we have. Some skirting needs to be replaced. Some was completely missing when we bought the house - no doubt if i look i will find it out in the barn.
There's lots of finishing off jobs to do. Little itty bitty bits all over. Doors need refitting, rehanging new locks, bits of skirting put back, holes filled in. cleaned off scrubbed down and then paint paint paint.
I am in the process of ordering a bespoke bath to be specially made. I just hope i have got the measurements correct ! Otherwise we will have a very large very expensive horse trough!!!
Finally decided on the layout of the bathroom and the fittings needed. So that all needs to be ordered this weekend. Floor coverings too, thats on the to do list. We have decided on contract industrial type wood floors in some rooms and carpets in the bedrooms. The stair carpet will be black and cream stripy and bound on the edges, so they lay it, fit it, cut it, and then remove it again. Take it away bound all the raw edges and then some back and fit properly.
After much research we have decided on diamond eggshell paint for the walls. At fifty five quid for a 5ltr tin its flippin pricey ....but its lovely stuff to work with. Its what the professionals use. So much pigment in the paint, its covers extremly well and gives a superb finish and has a good deep lustre. Stevie has found a new passion...painting. He's getting really good at it. Nice even coverage, no drips or lines. A perfect finish .
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