Weekly roundup

Good afternoon folks.

This week has been exciting for me. Why? It's because we are finally doing something to begin to put the house back together..... since we bought the place we seem to have done nothing other than break down and strip back so I cannot tell you how exciting it is to be able to do this.

 Starting in the two front bedrooms the first thing to do was to cover the exposed lintels over the old fireplaces with some kind of "plasticised" cement which allows the plaster to adhere properly.

 Then, a layer of plaster goes on while it is still wet. So now we are saying goodbye once more to the old fireplace areas.

Once the scratch coat of plaster is in place we turned our attention to the old original plaster that was sound enough to remain (Thank goodness as I have to confess to be heartily sick of removing old plaster and as I still have more to remove anything that stays is a treat!)
Enter stage left, blue grit..... this was fun to apply as it is basically a texture paste that needs to go on thinly but without rubbing the grit off. And if it's too thickly applied then it creates problems when skimming plaster later.

 It took me a good few hours but I got there in the end.

 Next week we can start the process of tanking, insulating and rebuilding the wall in this room and getting it ready to plaster and skim. Exciting times.

We've started the second bedroom too so we can look forward to a busy couple of weeks ahead but by the end we should have two spaces that are more finished. I do use the term finished loosely of course as the windows will need to be replaced later and a few other bits too but still, it is progress.

Then, as it was such a glorious day on Friday, we finished early and I headed off to the hills with a flask and a sandwich and had myself a brilliant wander......

A lovely treat to end the week.
Hope you are all enjoying your weekend too.