Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House
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It's looking great. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.
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Man I know dick about masonry but that is beautiful and seems like it would be really hard.
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Really hard on the wallet
those are a custom job -
We need to get services from one end of the house. all the way to the other. No way of going around the outside without ripping up loads of 4-6" thick slabs, so we are having to take the floors up that I laid 12 years ago….I'm now in the market for Pitch Pine boards, because I had nailed the original ones to the joists with more than the average amount of gusto.....
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Oh, that sucks.
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We need to get services from one end of the house. all the way to the other. No way of going around the outside without ripping up loads of 4-6" thick slabs, so we are having to take the floors up that I laid 12 years ago….I'm now in the market for Pitch Pine boards, because I had nailed the original ones to the joists with more than the average amount of gusto.....
That’s the IH way innit?
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Getting the patina to match may be a challenge ?
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When we bought the house, I took all the floorboards out of the top floor and replaced them with chipboard and carpeted the whole of that floor.
The planks I salvaged (plus other ones I "found" on what was a 10 acre derelict site and I had access to everywhere) were used to make good the damaged planks on the other 2 boarded floors. So we have a complete mismatch of widths, lengths, thicknesses (I used shims to shim to the thickness of the widest) and colour anyway.
I'll lay them, sand them and then apply a few coats of Osmo (which is what I did last tiime) and no one will know that I've done yet another bodge.
https://www.wood-finishes-direct.com/product/osmo-polyx-oil
People comment on the beauty of the floors, so I'm relaxed about this too.
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Nice one, it’s not really a bodge as such as you are reclaiming and repurposing which often happens with any house that is old enough.
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I would keep it. Takes the pain out of that first real ding.
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I like your style Giles. Let em rip!
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I’d have installed it too, did you manage to get a few quid back tho?
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Yep, same guys are making the coping stones, so they'll come in a little cheaper.
And if you see the damage to the 200-year-old cills on the main house, you'd understand why I'm not at all bothered. A house is a handmade thing, it can never be perfect, I for one celebrate its idiosyncrasies…..
I'm on my way home from Cairo at the moment, can't wait to see them in situ...
