Saturday 5 September
Now that the ladder base frames are made, we're back messing with lime mortar, leveling the frames on stones and mortaring them down. Once the mortar dries, we fill them with gravel and there you are: stable, level, bale-sized bases for building on.
This the the west wall. It's been wrapped in sailcloth for two years. The inside has been lath and plastered, as it shelters much of our living space: bedroom above and bathroom below. It will be wonderful to get windows and insulation in these rooms, but the process will, as always, be messy and disruptive.
Now that the ladder base frames are made, we're back messing with lime mortar, leveling the frames on stones and mortaring them down. Once the mortar dries, we fill them with gravel and there you are: stable, level, bale-sized bases for building on.
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