Plastering the Entry

Thurs/Mon 1 - 5 June 2017

I'm due to go to the UK next Wednesday, and I'd like to have the plastering done in the utility/entry by the front door before I go, so that everything moved out can be replaced and left organised.

So, two days of hard work: first, the little space at the top of the wall, where the mezzanine joists sit on the ring beam - this is one of the few remaining areas of exposed bales, and requires lots of reaching and stuffing with lime-coated straw to fill the cavity and discourage insects.

Then the wall panels can be plastered, some are internal lath-and-plaster sections, and some have been plastered, but they were our first, trial section, when we thought we'd need to put a second coat on, so they've been scoured for a key.  Therefore, they do need a second coat.

 At the top of the picture: two sections stuffed and plastered, one remaining, still showing the straw, next to the pipe through the wall for electrics

 Next day, lots more panels plastered, covering up the scoring shown in the top photo

 And the lathed interior wall to the left of the door, completed, phew!

Also, as we will have guests coming from the UK to stay: George and Phillie in the music room, and Rob in the studio, I thought it was high time we finished this little (newly green-lathed) patch of wall that we kept open to allow hot air from the music room stove to reach the bedroom.  Next winter we'll use the pipe and fan, instead.

 And I finally got around to having egg for breakfast from the chickens, my first one, and it turned out to be a double yolker!  They are laying 4 - 5 eggs a day now, between them.