Thursday 27 Feb 2014
There's some big rain coming in the next few days, so we made a major effort and worked a full 9-5 day without siesta or long tea breaks to get the wall as weatherproofed as we can. Three mixes on the wall, Dave doing the large areas, then me taking over to do the top bale ends and the fiddly bits between the joists. But it is done, second coat full coverage on the tallest wall. Still bits of second coat to do on the west face, but the weather's not coming from that direction, and we'll have to deconstruct and rebuild the scaffolding over on that side, so it's been left to last. Then we start the third coat.
But we've also decided that it is time to get a proper working kitchen area, and as my Mum gave us a cash injection for my birthday, we''re going to go ahead with laying a floor in the 15 sqm to the east of the stairs. We've sourced some nice creamy terracotta tiles from Crete that aren't too expensive and we've talked to Neil, a brick and tile-laying friend, so we're set to start on this project next. A kitchen and pantry area is slightly more urgent than the east wall, as the flies will be back as soon as the weather warms up, and we need a proper kitchen sink and the cooker from the camper van. So we have to clear furniture out of the space, dig out the floor area about 10 centimetres down, lay a limecrete slab, buy the tiles and call Neil in. While also getting coat three of plaster on the external walls. Roll on March!
There's some big rain coming in the next few days, so we made a major effort and worked a full 9-5 day without siesta or long tea breaks to get the wall as weatherproofed as we can. Three mixes on the wall, Dave doing the large areas, then me taking over to do the top bale ends and the fiddly bits between the joists. But it is done, second coat full coverage on the tallest wall. Still bits of second coat to do on the west face, but the weather's not coming from that direction, and we'll have to deconstruct and rebuild the scaffolding over on that side, so it's been left to last. Then we start the third coat.
But we've also decided that it is time to get a proper working kitchen area, and as my Mum gave us a cash injection for my birthday, we''re going to go ahead with laying a floor in the 15 sqm to the east of the stairs. We've sourced some nice creamy terracotta tiles from Crete that aren't too expensive and we've talked to Neil, a brick and tile-laying friend, so we're set to start on this project next. A kitchen and pantry area is slightly more urgent than the east wall, as the flies will be back as soon as the weather warms up, and we need a proper kitchen sink and the cooker from the camper van. So we have to clear furniture out of the space, dig out the floor area about 10 centimetres down, lay a limecrete slab, buy the tiles and call Neil in. While also getting coat three of plaster on the external walls. Roll on March!
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