The winter weather continues to batter the house, rip the plastic sheetings off at night and seep into the roof. I had rather a cold shower of rain water from the roof accompany me in the shower at the weekend! Refreshing!
I also had a day of light relief away from the house attending an upholstery course at Annie Sloan Interiors in Oxford. I'm hoping learning new skills will help me when tackling the interior of the house. A night in a warm hotel was lovelier than ever!!
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Lovely ladies on the Annie Sloan Workshop
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The roof work continues with stripping back and insulating. In one section at the back of the farmhouse the timbers had completely rotten and it was only the tiles that were knitted together holding it! Good job we hadn't had a heavy snow fall or a section of the roof may have gone completely.
At the rear of 'The Cottage' side of the house. The raking out of grout has begun. Water over the year has run down this wall and penetrated into the brickwork. The hard grout held the water in and this in now being removed and replaced with a lime based, softer mortar.
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Replacement Lime Mortar
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Today I began to look at how we are going to heat this heat house after the new roof. At the moment we have a couple of ancient oil fired boiler and two rather lovely wood burners. We have a 'free' supply of wood on the farm and we are keen to perhaps look at pellet wood burners. There's also a part of me that love a gas guzzling Aga! Though I think this option is seriously outside our budget!
Today I visited Ludlow Stoves to investigate and I fell in love with this pellet boiler that also acts as a cooker and water heater! I think we will have to visit Ludlow Stoves home where they have one working to view. I just can't decide which colour I would choose?! Red or cream!?
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