15 August 2015

Nothing to report this week. I have spent a lot of time on the LED lights on the trailer, and then I picked up a cold. It took me some time to get over it. I stayed in the house all of Friday and today, Saturday. That is in spite of semi sunny days. It seems the weather is changing and hopefully most if our rain is something of the past. You will never know.

9 August 2015

Now you can see what the inside walls look like. The first picture shows where the kitchen sink used to be. The second one is toward the outside wall where we had the fridges.

I must admit, since we opened the whole lot up, it has got much drier. And the rest of the house has got much colder. In some areas there are gaps of 8 mm between the weatherboards. I am still undecided about windows and doors. The latest line of thinking is to make a special sash window for the outer wall, but to make the lower sash only 100 to 200 mm high and to make it non opening. That will allow us to have a bed head underneath.

For the other side I intend to restore/ repair the old window that we took out where the large folding doors are now. I have done one in a worse condition before (in the bay window). One thing that I will definitely do is to box the weights in both windows, like I have done in Cambridge. It means a lot of work, but it means we wont need to rely on the architraves for weather tightness.

I had great aspirations to start building the floor, but that got delayed. With the new car we could not use the trailer (no tow bar) We went to Hamilton on Friday to pick up a new tow bar, and yesterday Hans sacrificed a whole day to look at our car and fit a tow bar. With the modern vehicles using LED's it took specialist knowledge to get that right. Now I am obliged to fit LED's to the trailer as well.

Never a dull moment!!!!

2 August 2015

Another week gone. We have managed to do the framing and insulation in front of the old fireplace. Then we routed the electrical wiring for five plugs. I don't want to run out of sockets. We have also fitted two sheets of plasterboard to that wall. Then we fitted the plasterboard against the internal wall, next to the door. It does not sound much, but there was a lot of work to get rid of rotten and unwanted timber.

I have also started work on a niche next to the fireplaces for the proposed gas water heater. That will take a lot of time. Currently I have only removed some short lengths of weatherboard. Now at least I have a crawlspace to get in there.

This picture shows the wall between the original kitchen and the dining room The innsulation showing was fitted when we installed the large folding doors. The weatherboard showing was original and in the original colour.

From the last picture it is clear that the door to the old kitchen was cut from the original framing. I always had an idea that there has  been a door originally. So we learn.

My rate of work has gone down a bit, I ascribe it to the wintry season.Elna is of invaluable help to me.

Sometimes I wonder if I am wasting my time. Only one person read the blog last week?