| Inside 15 Denbigh St |
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| This room was a mess. It took so much work to salvage. Eventually we had to stop walking past it and saying "we'll get onto that room soon". However, at last the lounge sash windows were replaced following a lot of scraping, sanding, filling, priming, painting and cursing. Strangely these sash windows weren't hung, and just work by friction within the window frame itself, making them murder to refit. Other windows in the house are weighted with pulley weights (and in some cases we added them where they were lost, or the cords broken). I left this work safely(?!) in the hands of the builder and I reminded him of a Sash window restorer in Edinburgh with the quirky name 'Sashy & Sashy'. They restored and refitted my windows in Edinburgh all in a day, including painting. These windows, however, were such a mess that it took about a week a window to restore. I thus named my builders new found business interest in windows 'Pane & Pane'. Looking at the foot of the wall you can see we removed the skirting (or rather it crumbled away). We didn't have any skirting with the same profile, and it certainly isn't made as big as these ones are nowadays, so with a bit of inginuity work we managed to make a perfect match using a leftover weatherboard and a cutting from a length of leftover archatrave. You cannot tell the diffrence from the original - amazing! You can't quite see it here, but we have just prepared the ceiling for plastering. Previously the ceiling had a 100mm sag in the middle. A bit of seat-of-the-pants joinery in the roof space allowed us to winch up the ceiling again. It is now gloriously replastered, and flat. Spiderman could play boules on it. The white you see is the 50mm polystyrene slabs we put into the wall from the exterior. And yes that is a Scottish calender on the wall. |
| Not the best photo, but that black thing in the middle of the fire surround is a Jetmaster woodburner. They are basically an open fire with a air chamber that runs behind the fire itself, thus it sucks cold air in the bottom and spits hot air out the top. What with this, all the insulation added to the house, the underfloor heating and panel heaters in each room running on a 24/7 timer, there is little chance of being cold this winter. At this stage we are still waiting for the fascia to be made and installed, but it does show that lovely pink colour of quality insulation. Not sure about the mantlepiece decorations though. |