Sunday night!

Too tired to upload tonight will update tomorrow but lots done! (and we found an old 5p coin in the ceiling!)

Dedication to the plaster!

Rich had to work today but not before he'd done more plastering! Looks pretty good for first time efforts although we will need to do a little bit of sanding.

I put a coat of paint on the ceiling in the bedroom but I think it's going to take several!

after some more polyfilla and attempts to remove the border glue, I made a start on pulling down the ivy. Took me ages but didn't feel like I'd gotten very far afterwards!

I was going to do a coat of waterproofing on the kitchen floor before I left but when I read the instructions it said to leave no more than 1 hour between coats. Will be leaving that for another day then! Gave me an opportunity to have a good clean up downstairs anyway.

Saw the neighbours on the way out who were keen to see the house. Apparently the house was disgusting before with sheep wandering in and out. That comes as no surprise given the state the house was in!

learning how to plaster... the messy way!

Today we carried on with the bedroom, cut the expanding foam back, finished sanding the walls and sanded the bits that needed gloss.  we made pieces to fill the skirting board where it had been cut for the original trunking.

As we couldn't get the diesel pump working to get the kerosene out of the tank at the old chapel, we had to siphon it out with a hose pipe, then lift the 205L drum onto the tank at the farmhouse and pour the kerosene in.  not a fun job, especially as we had to clear all the ivy away first!  we will get payback for this job when we burn it on the bonfire although there is a lot more ivy, it covers a lot of the back of the house.

 

 Plastering! Ok but I wouldn't like to do a whole wall.  Emily was better at big areas (we did an experiment patch in the kitchen)

 

 

After plastering face!

Rich's new favourite tool!

The chimney was swept this week so we could get the log burner going: two bags of soot taken away (in the garden!). Due to the back boiler, we have only just established that the hot water / shower works! Thankfully, we've been lucky.

Our priority is getting the bedroom done so at least we will have somewhere comfortable to sleep. Lots to do in this room though.

we cleaned and took up the carpet last weekend and have taken the radiator off the wall.

Today we have sanded a lot (but not all) of the mould from the walls. We have managed to sink the sockets and light switch, chasing the cables, fixing in with trunking and finally using the old faithful expanding foam to fill the gap :-)

This is definitely Rich's new favourite (borrowed) toy!

George likes the new toy too, still smiling despite how dirty we've made him.

Must try not to get the door stuck in the polyfilla'd wall again!

QC

That mould is stubborn!

Bit chewy that cheese

Trunking in, despite the flaky wall.

hopefully the room won't have completely been immersed in expanding foam by the time we go back tomorrow :-/

Hardly seems like a whole days work when you look at it in pictures but that's DIY for you.

Day 1!

Got the keys yesterday but as Rich was at work we had to wait till Saturday to go to the house.  Got inside after climbing over a mountain of junk mail to find the electric key meters £31 overdrawn.  After a quick trip to Co-op the electric was on, we turned on the water and went to have a look round...

 Mum cleaning the walls and floor!

A spot of alfresco lunch.

So where to put the workshop??

And then a reward - the pub!