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Renovating an old stone cottage: March 2014
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Tuesday, 18 March 2014. The Lounge - window worms. A little bit of progress has been made on the inside of the Lounge, prompted by us noticing that the windowsill was severely rotten and pools of water forming on it whenever it rained. One pleasant surprise from excavating around the win...
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Renovating an old stone cottage: Starting the surface-run mains cables
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Sunday, 28 June 2015. Starting the surface-run mains cables. As well as preparing the lighting circuits, I've started fitting the wooden conduit to the walls, in which we will be running the surface-mounted mains electrics. And you can see a short section of the finished article below...
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Renovating an old stone cottage: Planning and starting the lighting circuits
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Sunday, 28 June 2015. Planning and starting the lighting circuits. In order to place and fit a lot of the new pattresses and light switches, I had to remove and patch up a variety of old, disused switch locations. Labels: 3. Repairing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 163;892 - GlaPor...
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Renovating an old stone cottage: April 2014
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Wednesday, 30 April 2014. Sorting out the electrical wiring. Wires of unknown provenance are plastered, caulked and cemented in to walls, around beams and through floors, leaving a distinct possibility of accidental damage and unsightly bulges in some very odd places. I also discovered a...
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Renovating an old stone cottage: Limecrete Floor
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. There doesn't appear to be a concencus on the ideal way to lay an insulated, breathable Limecrete floor. Mike Wye (the Lime specialist) have a good guide. But we found that availability and cost of materials was a problem, as was the definite mix ratio, so here's how we did it. Cover the...
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Renovating an old stone cottage: Digging out the wetroom floor
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Thursday, 14 May 2015. Digging out the wetroom floor. I spent a happy couple of hours digging out 4-6 inches of concrete and various leaking pipes from the wetroom floor of the downstairs WC. Comments will not appear until checked by the Blog author. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Renovating an old stone cottage: June 2014
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Sunday, 22 June 2014. Dropping the level of an internal floor (Lounge). There was no avoiding the manual labour of digging, raking and harrowing out a cubic metre of old crud - which is now forming a nice spoil-pile behind the compost bin. You can see what's going on depth-wise here, and...
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Renovating an old stone cottage: Woodwool breathable insulated walls
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Sunday, 28 June 2015. Woodwool breathable insulated walls. They are construced from shredded wood, mixed with lime to give a firm (but a bit crumbly) board that can be screwed to battens and then plastered. This gives some context to their location in the lounge. Labels: 3. Repairing.
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Renovating an old stone cottage: May 2014
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Friday, 30 May 2014. Bye-bye builders - they move off-site. Before they left, they arranged us a pile of usable spares and cleaned up a tonne of bricks. As you can see, there's still a weekend of tidying up to do, but it's mostly the render which I'd chipped off. You can just about see i...
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Renovating an old stone cottage: February 2014
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Renovating an old stone cottage. Documenting the renovation of The Cottage, a pre-1840 stone and brick English cottage suffering from damp and years of unsuitable treatments. How to use this blog. Tips for old buildings. Saturday, 22 February 2014. Broken underground drain - fixed. After a little digging (maybe 2cm) I discovered an unexpected horror - the drain pipe itself was just under the surface, and broken. I decided to dig out the drain and see where it went, and how badly it was cracked. A new sec...