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Renovation Blog
5 June - On top of the world
Check out the before and after versions of the roof. Amazing. I am so pleased.
8 June - Still no plumber
I keep ringing and searching and chasing but nobody seems to want the work.
11 June - Yorkshire dry stone chimney
It's amazing that this chimney hasn't fallen down, since you can lift off the bricks by hand. We decide that it has remained up
because all the pointing is missing and hence the wind rather than knocking it over just goes straight through the gaps, much like
a dry stone wall!
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17 June - Tired tired
I feel like I've been working on the windows and pointing seven days a week for about 10 weeks without a break, since that's what
I have been doing. Every day I fall into bed exhausted then get up at 6 to do it all again... I keep telling myself it will be done
soon and then I can have a few days off.
19 June - Surely not - a plumber?
At last a new plumber comes round and says he'll take the job and will come back with a quote the next day. He seems very confident,
though I fear not particularly cheap. Still, we're running out of time as the boiler installation is due to start in a few weeks.
It's always worth hiring a Corgi-registered plumber for extra peace of mind.
20 June - Yes indeedy
We have a plumber and he's going to start in two weeks. The scaffolding is due to come down in about four weeks, even with all the delays
caused by the rain, so I decide I'll just get the upper floors' windows finished, along with the repointing at the higher levels, and finish
the ground floor later. It's annoying not to be able to get it all done but realistically I just don't have enough hours in the day.
22 June - The mystery of the hidden pipes
Another potential reason why none of the other plumbers would commit to the job was the fact that there is a bathroom at the front of
the house with a soil pipe exiting at the back of the house, and yet it doesn't appear to have sufficient drop to travel that
distance. Nobody could work it out, until finally we discovered there is a false ceiling in one of the rooms at the rear of the house
which allows the pipe to drop sufficiently. The new plumber resolves to find an alternative method of getting the waste out.
27 June - Crumbling gables
The pointing continues, with the gables in particularly poor condition, but I feel like I am nearly there on the high-level stuff. |
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