Racing the cold

Monday 25 November 2013

Everyone's saying the weather will turn cold this week, so we're working on the bedroom as hard as the rain allows.  We've been doing the woodwork trims around the tops and bottoms of the walls, and building the partition across the bottom of the room that will allow us to insulate on that side.

 We put in the pale wood on the diagonal - to join the new wall to the joist, to have an edge to plaster to.  Up behind the joist is stuffed with pillow innards for insulation.

 Building the partition walls to form a cupboard where the roof gets too low and Dave keeps banging his head.  This had to wait until we had plaster on the side walls before we could start the partition.  It will be plywood stuffed with pillows.  We can't plaster that wall because it faces south, where we intend to use cob and will need access at both sides.  So this partition idea gives us more storage (with polythene stapled across the back) and an insulated bedroom wall.

The biggest plaster panel done.  It took a whole mix and lots of arm ache.  The finish is deliberately rough, as we are only putting on a base coat.  The top coat can wait as long as necessary, we just need windproof solid walls at the moment.