Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House
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Got a load of stuff on the list for next week. One of jobs is to install my ebay fireplace.
Register grate installed, bricked in and painted…
Hole for the hearth, ready and waiting…
The hearth, 80kg of Portland Stone that P and I went down to Portland o Friday to pick up…
The grate surround (it's probably got a real name). I've polished the right-hand side, left-hand side is tomorrow's job…
Carrera marble bits, I think I have them in the right places….
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We re-laid the threshold today. Some arse (me) measured (badly) once and then cut. I had forgotten about the stooling under the bricks at either end, so the middle section was 440mm too short (what a twat). I had to get a new centre section made, take all 3 pieces out, shift the outer sections outwards and then drop the new centre section into place, at 200kg, moving the centre section around was not for the faint-hearted.
I'm delighted with the result and will take photos tomorrow, but having finished that, we are now able to start laying the floor. We placed a few down dry, just to get an idea of what it would look like….
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Based on your posts in the food thread, Giles should put you to work in it.
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Nice… looking forward to see the finished kitchen in September
same. did you keep the cat's paw prints in the new bit?
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Early 19th Century Scottish…..It looks a bit Art Nouveau, but it ain't......The register grate (can't control the airflow) was an early Victorian thing, this thing will burn coal like The Mallard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard
It was only later in the 19th Century that they work out how to control the burn
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Polished steel…
Shit that must get hot… my parents have a steel woodburner in Spain. They prefer them in winter as it gets real hot, real quick, but doesn't retain the heat for long. You don't need it until the next evening.
Everything in Norway is cast iron and lined, with an airflow control that is calibrated like a bloody watch. If you can't go to bed and still have it generating heat in the morning it's a worthless pos.
Paula watched….
Supportive watching or critical watching?
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There's a way to watch supportively?
Is that a Norwegian concept, because my wife is most certainly unfamiliar with it.
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There's a way to watch supportively?
Is that a Norwegian concept, because my wife is most certainly unfamiliar with it.
Apparently it is a thing yes, although I suspect you are not alone in your confusion. My impression is that in heterosexual relationships based on more traditional gender roles, this is something men are often expected to be good at and not something that their female partners need to practice. It’s a bit like putting the toilet seat down.
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That is a stunning fireplace - maybe early for the Art Nouveau period but I could see a young Rennie Mackintosh or Margaret MacDonald warming their cockles in front of it's flames at a family home and parking the memory to use as inspiration for designs in later life!
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It’s a bit like putting the toilet seat down.
As I mentioned previously, I have an older sister. Growing up, we shared a bathroom. She was rather adamant about that toilet seat issue. It was not always a peaceful, respectful discussion.
The result of this is that I never, ever leave the seat up.
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I never leave the toilet seat up because I like getting laid. If you do too, then put the seat down and don't point out that the counter is full of her makeup and hair appliances when she gets onto you when you forget.
It is a very ingrained habit in all seriousness, probably also due to sharing a bathroom with a sister growing up. Since men too occasionally need to sit in the loo, it's common sense that this is plain good manners.
What's less ingrained is putting the seat cover down, which is becoming necessary with two dogs in the house.
