A quiet weekend for us with not much progress to report in the house. We had some stone steps removed from the garden, which now allows us a much cleaner lawn area. We back-filled the holes left by stone removal with soil from the jacuzzi area. Yes the dream still lives.
Today, (dare I say Sunday) we decided to carry out a couple of tasks related to the fireplace. The fireplace was built some months ago, and since then the plasterer has been finishing around the fireplace. The problem that has arisen, is that the air vent covers do not fit correctly now, and we had to do some work to get them to fit. We also wanted to move the main cast iron feature door upwards about 10cm from its current position. This is one of the cast iron doors that we rescued from the old farmhouse oven. It is just lovely. Another task was to cut another hole to accept one of the smaller cast iron doors that also came from the old oven. A couple of weeks back, I was seduced into buying a lovely vibrating cutting machine. I tried it out in ernest today, and it was faultless. The new large door is now repositioned, and a new opening has been created for the smaller door...job done.
This coming week should see the completion of the plastering or very close, and more tiling happening. The second set of stairs should be in place on Tuesday, and I should be able to built the glass brick wall.
We are now making plans for a painting party.......watch this space.
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