12 - 16 October
With the relatives all gone, it was time to get on with the 'Cathedral' window wall. We now have bare bales on that corner, and all round the west side - from the SW around the front door to the NW wall at the back of the bathroom. It's a major plastering job: three coats all round, and will take us most of the winter. We are dependent upon Rowan finding time, and us finding money, for the remaining door and window frames. We need the outside frames installed before we plaster to ensure a really good seal between the bales and the windows.
So far, we have the frames in the cathedral window (three big arched windows), and these needed plugs over the screw heads, filling, sanding and painting with undercoat (red lead primer, like they use on fishing boats here - guaranteed to repel water and bugs, if not very eco).
So Dave did the woodwork, and I stapled up mesh where it would be needed, then we started the plastering.
With the relatives all gone, it was time to get on with the 'Cathedral' window wall. We now have bare bales on that corner, and all round the west side - from the SW around the front door to the NW wall at the back of the bathroom. It's a major plastering job: three coats all round, and will take us most of the winter. We are dependent upon Rowan finding time, and us finding money, for the remaining door and window frames. We need the outside frames installed before we plaster to ensure a really good seal between the bales and the windows.
So far, we have the frames in the cathedral window (three big arched windows), and these needed plugs over the screw heads, filling, sanding and painting with undercoat (red lead primer, like they use on fishing boats here - guaranteed to repel water and bugs, if not very eco).
So Dave did the woodwork, and I stapled up mesh where it would be needed, then we started the plastering.
This is one of the smaller arches - I decided to add these 'cat ears' to the corners so that when the plywood arch is fitted inside we can stuff straw into the gaps between that and the square box and it won't push the external plaster out. I took a photo 'cos it looked silly. (Still using the phone for pics, but a new camera ordered and on the way).
Dave cut fillets of wood for the space between the frames, then filled, sanded and primed them.
Then we put a coat of plaster on. The corner only took one day to put (almost) a full coat on. I couldn't reach that top corner and Dave had to go out. We can only get scaffolding to the edges of this area, because there's too much in the way in the middle, so we used a series of ladders.
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