Saturday 9 November 2013 at 3.30 pm
Finished! Well, not finished, but done enough to progress on to the next stage of the straw bale wall build, putting in a wooden base and framing out the doors and windows. We've asked Constantine to get the wood for us, but are still waiting for the cost, so we can get the money to him. But the wall will need a while to dry anyway - the colder, damp nights are keeping the mortar from going off too soon - which is good for the wall, if not what we're used to.
We've been incredibly lucky with the weather, it has held good until today - from tomorrow the rains are due, so we have finished in the nick of time.
There's plenty to do under cover while we wait for the wood. We need to get money to Constantine, and get more laths to keep building the internal walls. It's hard to know what is more urgent now - whether to get on with providing the whole house with the north straw bale wall, or concentrate on making a snug lath and plaster bedroom before the weather gets cold.
The camper van is damp, and without us there to heat it from time to time, it's not a good place for storage, especially of clothes, so our clothes are still in their summer location stacked up in the shed, which means there's no possibility of putting the wood stove on in there. As soon as the bedroom is lathed up and plastered on the inside, it will be a finished space, and we can move in properly: put the mattress up on a bed frame, build a wardrobe, buy chests of drawers - all the normal furniture people take for granted - and move the clothes, so we can heat the bathroom-shed. We can also run a little gas fire in the bedroom, for heating when the evenings get cold, hey ho - lots to do.
Finished! Well, not finished, but done enough to progress on to the next stage of the straw bale wall build, putting in a wooden base and framing out the doors and windows. We've asked Constantine to get the wood for us, but are still waiting for the cost, so we can get the money to him. But the wall will need a while to dry anyway - the colder, damp nights are keeping the mortar from going off too soon - which is good for the wall, if not what we're used to.
We've been incredibly lucky with the weather, it has held good until today - from tomorrow the rains are due, so we have finished in the nick of time.
There's plenty to do under cover while we wait for the wood. We need to get money to Constantine, and get more laths to keep building the internal walls. It's hard to know what is more urgent now - whether to get on with providing the whole house with the north straw bale wall, or concentrate on making a snug lath and plaster bedroom before the weather gets cold.
The camper van is damp, and without us there to heat it from time to time, it's not a good place for storage, especially of clothes, so our clothes are still in their summer location stacked up in the shed, which means there's no possibility of putting the wood stove on in there. As soon as the bedroom is lathed up and plastered on the inside, it will be a finished space, and we can move in properly: put the mattress up on a bed frame, build a wardrobe, buy chests of drawers - all the normal furniture people take for granted - and move the clothes, so we can heat the bathroom-shed. We can also run a little gas fire in the bedroom, for heating when the evenings get cold, hey ho - lots to do.
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