Don't walk on the grass

Note to self, the idea that we'd 'just walk over the grass' to get to the back of the garden was a foolish, summertime idea.  We should have had a path!

Also next time [please no] more sand / draining rotovated in.  Some of its a bit waterlogged.

What to do about the windows?

The house has wonderful sash windows.  When we bought it we kind of assumed they were rotten to the core and would just need compete replacements.  This had some advantages in a way,  we just planned to ignore them until next year and then bite the bullet and get some modern (wood, double glazed, still sash) ones installed at some, no doubt fiendish, cost.

Two things have happened since, one is that I've learn a lot more about sash windows,  and have realised the windows aren't in too bad condition.  The other is that we had a cold snap the other week...

Cue streaming condensation in the bedroom and the front room (though that's got drying plaster which might be the culprit) every night.  Apart from being miserable in itself its also very likely to lead to the return of the dreaded mould.  So something needs to be done.

After very exhaustive searching it seems we have 3 options available:

1. Put in slimlite style double glazing pains into the existing sashes
2. Throw away the sashes, keep the boxes and put in new double glazed sashes
3. Have some sort of horrible, sliding, internal secondary glazing.

They're all horrible (I'll expand on this later), so I've decided to make up a fourth option...

The walls of Jericho

Now we're in cowley,  but i couldn't help it.

Suspicions were aroused when, the day before the plasterer was due to fix the ceiling and do a skim, I decided to be a good customer and remove and errant screw from the wall.

Seems it was holding the plaster in,  oh well bit of patching maybe?

Clearly not.  Next day Jana gets a call:
'the whole wall has come down'
'what?!!!',
'all the plaster i mean'
'oh fine'

The room looked rather great with bare brick walls,  might have to use it somewhere. 

Anyway he managed to save the coving.

Shake it up baby

Pneumatic drills hurt!  I'm not referring to some hideous accident but to the bone-aching stiffness post using one.  HSS where out of normal sized ones, so I ended up with a real road breaker.  Went through the path like butter,  but turned my arms to jelly.

Now i have a nice pile of bits of concrete -> anyone want it?

Obvious really

Having your house roofed makes it very, very, very dirty in the loft!

Somehow I hadn't expected that...

The dreadful mould

There's mould everywhere, in fact Jana's sent about 2 says clearing it from the bathroom.  We've gone for 2 coats of mould killer,  a good clean, and 2 coats of mould resistant paint.  Fingers crossed...