James arrived yesterday to begin the process of adding the stair case. its great to have a young person who sticks to time and gets the job done. The landing being built by Charlie, NIck and Tony's brother is a great creation. He has created it using a telehandler to bend the steel to the correct shape. Before that he had cut slices out to precise measurements all of which were then welded together again once bent! Many thanks to you both. The scaffolding has gone in to enable Duncan to plaster the Chapel/living room, it will also help Tony to add the floor to the landing.
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He has worked so hard to get this completed for us and it looks great with the coloured windows. He has now moved on to our bedroom. It's been a while but Dave Northey has arrived to add the big doors to the timbers he put in when we were doing the Hempcrete in June . They don't have glass in but its a step forward.
To make sure we got the pod completed and ready to plaster Tony popped in and put up the walls, in one day! Dave has boarded the ceiling and now the sides and underside of the pod, note Jan's windows in the pod with black crosses. these will have coloured glass in later.
Sarah continues to get stuck in and she and Jan have been decorating the stable. Great job as we want to be in asap and it was supposed to be by the end of August!
So we had James Bright round to look at doing the staircase, he has produced a great plan and its going ahead in a couple of weeks. Having taken down all the old wood wool boards we decided to get someone in to put up the plasterboard.....enter Dave.
So they carried on adding the next coat to the walls in the kitchen. Jan measured out the green pigment we want them to use and this will make the kitchen walls appear green, we hope it will look good as it means we don't need to paint them just yet. I have been taking down the boards in the chapel/living room. This is because the woodwool boards are not the right thing to use...architects eh! Still it will be fine we just need to replace it all in a week so take it down and put up plasterboard.....no biggy!
So we are at that stage of deciding on floors, doors and finishes. The floor is our next challenge, we want a slate floor in the Kitchen and the go to place for a true Cornish slate floor id Delabole Quarry. so we went for a visit and it would cost £5000+ just for the kitchen without the cost of fitting! So a rethink is in order. Luckily we found a company that can get us Brazilian slate for a better price, not Cornish but it would be slate. So for the price of the kitchen floor we are having the whole downstairs done....still a bit costly but it will finish the place off nicely.
We have upstairs walls thanks to Tony and Richard. Just the last bit of wood wool boards to come down now.
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