Ramblings
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Deconstructing bedroom 3
After I left on Friday, the builders got on with making things go away. With the mouldy and damp plasterboard removed, it becomes clearer that remodelling the room could work out quite well. The shower wall turns into a door that opens inwards and left, and the existing door is turned into a wall. Replace…
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It’s a swimming pool
We took up a plank of the engineered floor in the kitchen today, to conduct some archaeology and work out how everything is put together. With the plank up, we folded the membrane back to look at the concrete underneath, and the water ran off the membrane underside in rivulets. Bugger. We have two options…
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Stripped kitchen, stripping ensuite
Progress of sorts. Kitchen wet wall has been stripped back to the bare concrete blocks. It looks like the plaster and insulation might have been resting directly on soil instead of on a waterproof base – will be confirming that today with the builder. A bit of archaeology says that I’ve got an engineered wood…
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The saga of doom continues
Ensuite The third bedroom has been stripped and re-rendered with sand/cement scratch. When this was happening, some tiles fell off the wall in the ensuite bathroom, revealing that behind the tiling is black mould of some sort. How it’s growing behind the tiles is beyond me. The Saniflow macerator also decided to have conniptions, leaking…
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Every single time I think we’re making progress…
Well, we are making progress on the house, but it feels like backwards progress some days. After looking at the back wall of the second bedroom on Friday gone, I told the builder to strip it back and thermal board it. Like other walls, it was covered in 20 – 30 mm of gypsum. Post-stripping,…
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Blue Opal is coming back to me
With my passport not in my possession, getting Blue Opal back to Ireland is going to be difficult. A bit of searching online, and some quotes, and I’ve ended up contracting Halcyon to move her from Pwllheli to Dun Laoghaire for me. It’ll be nice to have my boat back; she should be here on…