charlie-ia
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we were lucky enough to find a beautiful flagged kitchen floor under the manky, wet vinyl. no glue luckily.
now its dried out all the different colours in the sandstone are coming through. we havent washed it yet, so its true beauty has yet to be revealed! we did scrub a couple just to see, mostly dark sandstone, and some have little red pebbles in, like cherries in a chocolate biscuit! the pebbles stand slightly proud where the softer sandstone has worn away with people walking on it.
a couple of the stones are a warmer, yellower colour.
the biggest flag is right in the middle of the floor. much the same colour as the bottom of a cup of cocoa. it is over 3foot long in both dimensions and most impressive. i personally would have built the house round it, rather than try to get it through the narrow door!
we sit there in the evenings, with no telly and no fire, staring at the floor, as you do.
(and craving chocolate for some reason)
any ideas how much it would weigh? or how thick it might be? we are obviously not going to mess with the floor, so we will never know. wish you lot could see it, but all the photos are on real film, and i havent got them developed yet.
the walls are very nice too, much plaster missing. if you forget to shut the door when you see a cloud coming, it gets in the house (its up a damp irish mountain) and sticks to the walls. when the cloud leaves everything is covered in dew. some stones in the wall collect condensation far more than others, even in the same area, the dark ones are best. theres one just above the fireplace which is almost black, and sooty too, and the beads of water stand proud and glitter.
any gloss paint literally runs with water. it really shows up where we need to do more work.
curiously, the windows don't steam up. its very odd. i assume its because the inside and outside are the same temp, but surely that would apply to a gloss painted hardboard internal door too? neither surface is breathable.
in an hour or two (depending on the weather of course) everything is dry again.
the windows do steam up in the mornings, or when im cooking.
after our chimney mishap we dont have any heating untill we implement plan b, but it is getting drier. at least the rain doesnt pour across the floor anymore.
now its dried out all the different colours in the sandstone are coming through. we havent washed it yet, so its true beauty has yet to be revealed! we did scrub a couple just to see, mostly dark sandstone, and some have little red pebbles in, like cherries in a chocolate biscuit! the pebbles stand slightly proud where the softer sandstone has worn away with people walking on it.
a couple of the stones are a warmer, yellower colour.
the biggest flag is right in the middle of the floor. much the same colour as the bottom of a cup of cocoa. it is over 3foot long in both dimensions and most impressive. i personally would have built the house round it, rather than try to get it through the narrow door!
we sit there in the evenings, with no telly and no fire, staring at the floor, as you do.
(and craving chocolate for some reason)any ideas how much it would weigh? or how thick it might be? we are obviously not going to mess with the floor, so we will never know. wish you lot could see it, but all the photos are on real film, and i havent got them developed yet.
the walls are very nice too, much plaster missing. if you forget to shut the door when you see a cloud coming, it gets in the house (its up a damp irish mountain) and sticks to the walls. when the cloud leaves everything is covered in dew. some stones in the wall collect condensation far more than others, even in the same area, the dark ones are best. theres one just above the fireplace which is almost black, and sooty too, and the beads of water stand proud and glitter.
any gloss paint literally runs with water. it really shows up where we need to do more work.
curiously, the windows don't steam up. its very odd. i assume its because the inside and outside are the same temp, but surely that would apply to a gloss painted hardboard internal door too? neither surface is breathable.
in an hour or two (depending on the weather of course) everything is dry again.
the windows do steam up in the mornings, or when im cooking.
after our chimney mishap we dont have any heating untill we implement plan b, but it is getting drier. at least the rain doesnt pour across the floor anymore.