Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Today the final felt covering was laid on the dormer roof:


The fascia board and guttering were fixed to the roof of the bathroom extension:











While the weather was fine Mark took charge of cleaning the rendering and spraying with silicone where some bad leaks had occurred on the side walls, mainly due to a fault with the concrete fillet between the original stone cottage and the brick of the extension. Only one coat was applied today due to the weather changing.

Back inside Mike was plastering - bonding on the landing and in the second bedroom. Mark and Sid were fixing skirting boards and architrave in the loft.














Meanwhile, Fred was continuing with the wallpaper stripping.





Underneath the paper on the outside wall the plasterwork was in very poor condition and here it shows that damp had been penetrating for a considerable time. This wall will have to be studded and ventilated and will probably take a long time to dry out.



In the main bedroom, after removing the painted anaglypta and the vinyl coated paper underneath, this pattern remains on the plaster.



The 5 sq metres of tiles missing from yesterday's delivery arrived at lunchtime. However, the batch code was different and the colour was not a match so another 'phone call to Wickes brought a promise of 16 sq metres of tiles to be delivered on Thursday (hopefully with all the same batch code) and the 16 sq metres we have here being picked up and returned.