Monday, September 17, 2012

Workshop - work continuing...

All the rendering and lime-washing is finished inside the workshop. 
Compare this corner with the first pic in my earlier blog: "Its been an interesting weekend - part 3" 
Definitely an improvement, and now the lovely stones that were used around the doorway can be seen clearly.
All the doors are now glazed, and this picture shows how the middle door is hinged onto one of the side doors, 
 to allow them to be fully opened and closed
 while still letting in as much light as possible.
 Looking good eh?
The steel straight edge on the floor is a hint of the next job to do: 
Pete is measuring out a 3:4:5 triangle to get a line down the centre of the floor perpendicular to the entrance...
as we have decided to tile the floor, because the concrete is producing so much dust. 
Better to do this now,  rather than after we start using the place and choke on the dust. So we did a quick dash up to BricoDepôt to buy 45 square meters of their cheapest floor tiles. 

However, the sunny, windless afternoon on Sunday demanded that we burn the last of the leylandii!
This is one of the very last lots of dry leylandii brashings that were still piled up after most of it was burnt earlier on this year.
And it went up with a satisfying crackle!
Now our neighbour, Yvon, can come and plough-up the field and re-seed it for us (in recompense for wrecking it to cut down his trees).
Should be lots of good grazing for the sheep next spring.

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