Doesn't our bedroom look lovely, the beams are all done and the floors are ready to stain.
Our ensuite just needs some paint but not until the caulking has been done around the beams and then there's just the floor...............
Your bedroom just needs skirting boards. (Well actually we need 70m of skirting boards so a trip to the woodyard is one of this week's jobs.)
The new stairman called round yesterday to measure up. (He required lots of decisions about banisters and spindles which were a bit pot luck but should be back to fit in a couple of weeks!) He needed something to measure so lots of painting and finishing was done before he got here. (Just finished the beam, they aren't that shiny really.)
The downside is that when the walls in the living room were painted ready for the stairman all my gloop spreading seems to have been a bit lacking and you could still see the joins - sigh. Upstairs everything is fine but somehow not so good downstairs. On with the gloop.
On the cat front, Mum has b*gg*r*d off with three of her kittens and left one wailing mournfully in the ruin. It is old enough to eat small tins of expensive cat food but not if anyone is looking.
You see that tiny open triangle between the support beam and the upper in the second photograph? You might like to think about wopping a plasterboad triangle in there on both sides as otherwise it is a trap for everything from dust to creeplie crawlies...says she from bitter experience.
ReplyDeleteAnd how is it that stray cats always have caviar tastes?
And there was I just being pleased I didn't have to paint it :-) Point taken though.
DeleteIt's bit late now but when joint filling with your "gloop", have you tried using two filling knives at the same time one about 3" and one about 6". With one in each hand you can transfer filler from one knife to the other and manage it better, getting just the right amount on the right knife for the fill. No doubt you've done this already. but ..just a thought. Also sand down with an angled block on a stick (they sell them in decorators suppliers)
ReplyDeleteThe job looks great. Best of luck with the staircase!
Thank you for info and praise x
DeleteDid much better with a different spreader thingy but my efforts at two knives promoted thoughts of the origins of cack handed and clutz :-)
Deleteps. Have you managed to date the house yet? Those roof trusses with bolts look to be late 1800's
ReplyDeleteLoved the picture (way back) of the masons guiding the dormer stonework in to place .
Very difficult to date. There are some remnants of charred beams but most was replaced, we think to sell it in the 1950s. There is the old stone sink that was hidden in the wall too. I guess they just keep building them in the same style forever.
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