Bathroom plastering

26 -29 October 2018

Back from Athens on Thursday (in time for choir practice in the evening), and straight into prepping the bathroom for plaster on Friday.

 Taping the bath and the woodwork

 and around the windows.

 Then everything is swathed in sheets (with old towels underneath to protect the bath and loo

 Windows covered up to protect from flying plaster and limewash (I get a bit slapdash at times!)  First panels completed.

 Monday evening, all plaster panels done except two behind the door.  The newer plaster is grey, the older stuff is pale pink.  We have very nearly run out of sharp sand, so we decided to try using half fine grey sand and half sharp pink.  It makes a much nicer plaster to work with, very fine, and hopefully just as sticky.  One slight drawback is that we hadn't realised that the cats have found the fine sand to be an excellent litter tray, easy to work even in drought, and so Dave is having to filter out the poo as best he can before making the mix.

A strange thing has happened.  We have been worrying about how to get another delivery of sand and gravel and lime.  Last time the truck came he said the track was very difficult to get down, and that was nearly a year ago, so it could be much worse now.  But when we went to look, it seems someone has bulldozed it flat in the last few days.  Useful, but disturbing - who else would want that?