29 September 2014
All our plans were in place. We had asked Paris to work for a few hours a day to help us get things moving, we would run the mixer non-stop, plastering the interior bale walls in the music room and studio, then move on to prepping the next bale wall - the east face. These happy plans ground to an unexpected halt on Saturday evening, when Robert Tatos, the owner of the mortar mixer, turned up without warning and said he needed it for a week.
What a blow! Incredibly bad timing. So we had an emergency re-think and shelved the plastering plans. Dave will continue with limewashing the external bale walls - 2 to 3 more coats all round and it should be properly weatherproofed. Meanwhile, Paris and I will paint the window and door frames in the kitchen, to weatherproof those too. Then we'll have to start building the framework for the bales on the east. Maybe it's for the best, prioritising the outside walls, but we were hoping for a cosy music/sitting room finished for winter.
Paris will start on Wednesday, so we have a couple of days to put in more ground work.
I was doing the laundry (again!) but suddenly had this idea for a raised bed to be ready to plant out in spring. It is a way of using up some old roofing boards cluttering the music room, and also disposes of the bike box (lining the bottom) and the rotten bale that had to be pulled out of the wall while building - it makes good mulch. I can throw compost in here for a few months and dig it all in for spring planting.
All our plans were in place. We had asked Paris to work for a few hours a day to help us get things moving, we would run the mixer non-stop, plastering the interior bale walls in the music room and studio, then move on to prepping the next bale wall - the east face. These happy plans ground to an unexpected halt on Saturday evening, when Robert Tatos, the owner of the mortar mixer, turned up without warning and said he needed it for a week.
What a blow! Incredibly bad timing. So we had an emergency re-think and shelved the plastering plans. Dave will continue with limewashing the external bale walls - 2 to 3 more coats all round and it should be properly weatherproofed. Meanwhile, Paris and I will paint the window and door frames in the kitchen, to weatherproof those too. Then we'll have to start building the framework for the bales on the east. Maybe it's for the best, prioritising the outside walls, but we were hoping for a cosy music/sitting room finished for winter.
Paris will start on Wednesday, so we have a couple of days to put in more ground work.
First, collect the scaffolding from Amanda who borrowed it. Clever Punto!
Then put a coat of limewash in the easy to reach section of the kitchen wall
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