3 weeks since last post and I didn't think we had done much, but when I look at my photos I can see that actually we have done loads!
The amazing Samuel came and plastered the internal walls for us, such a skilled job and one I had decided not to do myself! Makes the place look so much bigger.
The next important leap forward was deciding to employ Dusty Dave from Rellue to lay our cement floor. He came with his old UK banger and his big black dog and worked his arse off bless him for 3 days. Sean lost count of how many mixes we did in our little mixer and Javi came with quite a few dumper trucks of material to bring up the height! You can see Dan looking so happy at helping! lol
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| Whacker plate time! |
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| looking down into the bedroom, roof tinted already! |
You can see below 2 different colours, (just!) we decided to use white cement in the bedroom which has 30% less nasty chemicals than normal cement. The cost is very different though, we pay around 2 euros each bag of normal gray cement and the white is nearly 7 euros a bag.
The line of old tiles will be hidden below the bedroom wall which we will build next. Then when we knock down in the future you will see the tiles again.
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| nice old tiles! |
I am using natural paint in the house and making it all myself, I have bought some amazing blue which I might have shown you before and also a white tint. I have coloured the wood using coffee and wanted to test some red mud that we have on the land to use on the bedroom wall.
I mixed with water and flour but the colour is not right! I want more red and this is a little brown so will head to the paint shop to buy a red tint, unless I can find something else to use.
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| Too brown! |
Rich has worked hard getting the frame made for the glass and only today the measurements are made and he will head to the glass place to order it! That will be scary as they are not cheap. Here you can see that he has boxed in above the window with plasterboard, we need to get Samuel back to make a nice smooth finish.
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| Boxed in ready for plaster. |
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| bedroom ceiling tinted |
I have worked hard over the last few days finishing the cob coat in the bedroom, below is the window that we bought cheap. Rich chopped up an old piece of wood I found in the bin and we have made it into a sill! With some linseed oil it looks really posh!
If you can see an odd shape at the top its to allow the window to open more on the right!
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| Posh bedroom window! |
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| Pallet wood waiting to be cut to size! |
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| Finished cut on the left! |
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| Seat is old scaffold board found in bin! |
Rich has just turned up with the glass which will fill the gap you can see above, I do have to stain the wood first so I will be putting the kettle on to make coffee stain with linseed oil.
The plan is the build the pallet wall between the bedroom and lounge on Wednesday which will allow us to move in, no more sleeping in the caravan! BRING IT ON!!!!!!!
