New first floor joists in PMR gîte (day 3 of 3)

We finished fitting the main joists today across the kitchen (5.5m) and the bedroom/bathroom (3.5m).



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The chateau has doors and windows

Image
After being on order for 4 months, the doors and windows for the chateau were fitted this week. It is now sealed except for the gaps between the roof and wall tops (in the roof where the B&B rooms will be).  The bats have relocated from the pool equipment room to inside the chateau so hopefully they will vacate soon so I need to leave a door open.
Read more

Repointing stone walls in upstairs PMR gîte bedroom

Image
The exposed stone work in the PMR gîte is not the best quality, it was originally a horse stables, or perhaps for cows and also storage/workshop.  Not surprisingly it turned into a very dusty and dirty job and our arm/wrists were aching at the end of each day. We has to remove all the sandy/crumbly mortar and then repoint with chaux (lime) mortar. This allows the walls to "breath" whereas concrete creates a solid barrier. For the upstairs bedroom we used 34 bags of mix, 850 kg! The different darknesses of the mortar are just where some is older and dried out more! Small stone wall in downstairs bedroom Next repointing job is the living room and joining wall with the kitchen.
Read more

Internal doors in PMR gîte

Image
To fit the downstairs doors in the PMR gîte, we had to take a few steps back and remove the plasterboard around the door openings and fit wooden supports for the doors to attach to. For the upstairs bedroom where the door opening was created (way back), it was simpler as we could add 2cm spacers and it fitted perfectly and secured into the white stone blocks. These pictures are before we repointed the stone in the bedroom (another post today)
Read more