Help with plastering/identification/general help

[Micky]

Hi Yamin, lost the plot slightly there I actually meant the stove shop in Studley! To be honest our poor house has not been treated that well in the old section a concrete floor has been put over bare earth (still bare earth under the stairs) and all the walls in our living room have plastic caging stuff under thick dry lining gypsum plaster presumably because of damp on this old side the house is on sandstone plinth so as I have learnt on here this is really not good news. But we just don't have the funds to rip it all out and in the 80's previous owners had an extension put on although fairly sympathetically done prob only because we are in a conservation area. We've just redone kitchen, bathroom, stripped beams (Strippers of Sudbury stuff is excellent) etc wish I had known about breathable and linseed paints before too, I can recommend Period House Shop in Warwick and Cox's Architectural Salvage if you are looking for window furniture, hinges or that sort of thing. If only my premium bonds would come up!
Micky

 

[yamin]

Didn't have a chap called Tim do your stove work did you? Thanks for local tips, esp re strippers. Sounds like your house a lifetime of slow work, just like ours. With all this makeover stuff on the TV you can get dragged in to wanting to get it all done quickly, and its hard to remember that its stood with these horrible modern additions for over 20 years, and there is no hurry to take them down, other than aesthetic! Just look at John Maines house, now theres a real labour of love (and ££££ too I have to say! Phew, what a project!). This is why I hope to do a course or too and learn a lot of the skills I need myself, with help from this forum. Hopefully as time progresses I might even be able to offer advice to others on here, after all the help offered me!

Good luck!