Georgian House Renovation Up North - 5 Years and Counting
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Plenty of other tasks on the go to keep me busy during lockdown, I’d always been meaning to strip the hideous paint from the cellar, get it back to brick and repoint it...So I dug out a giant tin of paint stripper and let rip.
A few weeks worth of work down there to finish it but at least it is coming off relatively easily.
A few weeks worth of work down there to finish it but at least it is coming off relatively easily.
We also traced the smell in the eldest’s bedroom, we’d had a leaking gutter outside that had gone unnoticed and saturated the wall, we thought we’d stripped and resolved it but there was still mould behind the skirting board so that and a floorboard came off today to sort it.
The boards are lovely old wide ones but they’re a bit shot and the room is freezing so once it’s dried out, it’ll be a case of leveling the floor a bit and whacking in a carpet.
Fragment of old wallpaper - We have bigger sections and keep meaning to get some block print made up but never seem to get round to it.
The boards are lovely old wide ones but they’re a bit shot and the room is freezing so once it’s dried out, it’ll be a case of leveling the floor a bit and whacking in a carpet.
Fragment of old wallpaper - We have bigger sections and keep meaning to get some block print made up but never seem to get round to it.
Edited by Vanity Projects on Thursday 2nd April 23:17
We had the doors stripped a while ago but try as they might, the dipping process left some stuff behind, unsurprising given the age of the doors.
With that in mind and the lockdown giving some time, they’re coming off one by one for a proper sanding back.
Bathroom door first, photos will be sideways because ph.
One down, ten to go...
Also interesting to note how the doors have a posh side for show and a plain side for the room itself.
With that in mind and the lockdown giving some time, they’re coming off one by one for a proper sanding back.
Bathroom door first, photos will be sideways because ph.
One down, ten to go...
Also interesting to note how the doors have a posh side for show and a plain side for the room itself.
Vanity Projects said:
We got a visit from the previous owners a while back and they told us many a story about the house.....
......I put the alcove to good use by inserting a souvenir copy of the Daily mail (in an Asda carrier bag) from the morning after Boris’s lockdown announcement - Along with a disclaimer that I don’t read it....
Love it.......I put the alcove to good use by inserting a souvenir copy of the Daily mail (in an Asda carrier bag) from the morning after Boris’s lockdown announcement - Along with a disclaimer that I don’t read it....
In my last house the previous owner ( was a 'builder' of all things) had post delivered to ours for years and I used to take it round and have a half our chat (with the post in my hand) each time ask slightly awkward questions about where wires and pipes went till I had got to the bottom of most things and then just started writing 'no longer at this address, return to sender' on everything, which worked well for everything except Howdens!
Love you time capsule. Perfect.
Daniel
Any updates OP? Your thread was a real inspiration 3 or 4 years ago when I was renovating my last place and I have just re-read it sat in the weekend sun.
I now find myself a year into my own period property adventure (1848 and recently heavily extended) which needs lot’s of work and bodges sorting, I have two dogs and now two kids under two (14 months and 2 weeks
).
I spent the morning removing large bits of the stone walling that were leaning perilously and had been propped up by the previous owner…not looking forward to having to sort that out in the near future as there must be 120m of it, 6 foot high…
I now find myself a year into my own period property adventure (1848 and recently heavily extended) which needs lot’s of work and bodges sorting, I have two dogs and now two kids under two (14 months and 2 weeks
). I spent the morning removing large bits of the stone walling that were leaning perilously and had been propped up by the previous owner…not looking forward to having to sort that out in the near future as there must be 120m of it, 6 foot high…
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