What with all the sunny weather we’ve been having, we’ve been a little lax about getting on with the vast pile of indoor jobs…
But on Sunday, we ventured back upstairs to finish the pine-cladding destruction.
It went much as before: pine removed, many dust generated, nails removed, rafters exposed. And we discovered the ridge beam is not so much a beam as an entire tree trunk by the looks of it. We need to inspect it more closely, but so far it looks sound.
Actually, that’s another job we have to do: treat all the timber in the house for woodworm. That’ll be fun.
Anyway – you can see the progress we’ve made below. It’s pretty much bare now. We need to remove the cladding corpses and as much dust, nests, and dirt as we can, then we’re ready to look at the actual improvements.
Hurrah!
Bare rafters
And the ridge beam:
Mahoosive oak (we think) ridge beam
We still need to pull all the electrics out as well, so we can rewire properly.
In the meantime, Fish – our floor man – is coming along on August 12 to look at the horizontal softwood timbers and advise on what we can do.
The oak floor is arriving on October 17 to sit for a few days…
And we start laying on October 24! Exciting times.
So before October 17, we have to:
- Strip out all electrics
- Clean out the entire space
- Make sound any gaps at the base of the roofline and ensure the wall is cool
- Cut out the area where the stairs will go
- Blast and treat the exposed timbers
- Lath and lime plaster (we think) the sloping walls/ceiling
Suddenly that seems like quite a big list, considering we’re having a holiday in between now and then…
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