Starting the electrics

Before Iain could take down the wall I had to move the old fuse board.

Before

Behind

 

 

 

 

Empty of cables

All neatly tidied up

Where to eat....

The kitchen has a wee space where you could put a little table and a couple of chairs - maybe

But if you do that where are you going to put the fridge and freezer?
My friend Antonia came for a look round and suggested removing this wall between the stairs and the front door:

Genius! Antonia's husband is an architect so he came round and pronounced it non loadbearing :-)

 The thick joist on the left is holding up the joists that are resting on the non loadbearing wall. Unfortunately this joist is rotten where it meets the brickwork and even though it is about 3" x 8" in cross section the other end is supported only by 1/4 " check in the newell post and one 4" nail!!

This is the end of the big joist with its one nail and just caught on the newell post

The bathroom wall frame is balanced on the stairs now.

Iain took down the wall and then the bathroom wall and then started on the joists ...

Where's the bathroom gone

Iain popped in for a few hours on Tuesday and the bathroom disappeared...

O there's the bath

Colin and Jamie

These two guys repaired the roughcast and redid the cement finish below floor level. 

It looks a lot neater.


When the boys came with their invoice Colin told me Jamie was brought up in this house - so I had to invite them in to look round.

Jamie in his old room!
I'll let them come back when its finished.

Dormers

After the repairs were made by Steve.... Paul and Mick refelted the dormers. I climbed the ladder to inspect the last one but I didn't take my camera. I needed both hands to hold on - its a long time since I was able to scamper up and down scaffolding!

Doesn't that look better!

Roofline

Steve came with his chum Tom and expected to fit shiny new white plastic roofline goods but.... what a lot of rot they found when they started stripping the old facias. Scaffolding was borrowed from Mick and timber fetched from Jewsons and repairs started. A 2-3 day job took about 6 days in all including nearly being blown off the scaffold by the high winds.

3 wasp nests were found in the dormers

Woodworm

As soon as the Christmas holidays were over a very nice man from Rentokil came and inspected our new house. You've got woodworm - we know that - and weevils in the floor in the bathroom - arghh - and wet rot - well that was obvious - and when the wet rot dries out it will turn into dry rot - oh dear.

Its all fixable so no worries there :-)

First of all chip off all the wet plaster and remove all the wet plasterboard:

Take out the toilet - and the sink might as well go too.

Underneath the bath

The Rentokil men spent two days - driving from and returning to Girvan each day! They removed and replaced the loft insulation is sections in order to fog the loft. They lifted floorboards in the bedrooms to treat under the floors. There was no infestation in the groundfloor so no treatment there.