Period Joys

[Keithj]

Since we have an outlet for our grumps, I thought I would go for the other thing...

It rained and it blew, worthy of Noah, and the water butts filled overnight (having been empty). The electronic thingy on the side of the workshop radioed the study to report 47mm of rain in the previous 24 hours.

And NO WET came through the dining room wall. This is the first time on a wet and southwesterly-windy night we haven't had to get out the towels and buckets. Lots of rain on a lime rendered south gable end wall, assisted by strong wind, hitherto meant a demonstration of the concept of permeability (and a very wet dining room floor). Kelvyn's efforts with lead in carefully worked-out places seems to have succeeded. My addition of a judiciously placed oak board under the main window (where the gap was), filled in with lime, fixed the little leak at the corner.

Gaudium magnum!

 

[noj]

Mutatis mutandis!

Congratulations

 

[malcolm]

I think this summer might not be considered the best, but it is excellent if you happen to be doing a lot of work in lime or insulating the loft when it is raining. I recorded 50mm of water in my builders buckets.

Fixing the gutter seems to have prevented any water falling on the dodgy leadwork and rotten window in the kitchen below, but the mouldy gypsum plaster in the kitchen still reads off the scale for damp. I guess that stuff doesn't dry out easily.

 

[Me!]

Oh come on you lot, ... we can't all be grumpy all of the time!

Last Friday, after I came home from work through the cold and the pouring rain, I lit the fire. Yes, in July, a blazing fire in a large inglenook fireplace. Not the nice efficient wood burning stove in the other room, but the big, glorious log basket that consumes trees and heats up the night sky. I then opened a bottle of nice red wine and sat in front of the fire eating cheese and biscuits, ... and I enjoyed every minute of it

 

[LadyArowana]

I had delicious eel on rice for lunch, and then I practised putting a kimono on my mannequin. I managed a fairly flat and straight ohashori and when I undid the temporary himo the taiko musubi didn't unravel. For those of you reading that and wondering what I'm rabbiting on about "welcome to my world", it's how I often feel after reading some of the more arcane plumbing/ plastering/ electrical topics that pop up :lol:

 

[frogman]

Oh come on you lot, ... we can't all be grumpy all of the time!

Last Friday, after I came home from work through the cold and the pouring rain, I lit the fire. Yes, in July, a blazing fire in a large inglenook fireplace. Not the nice efficient wood burning stove in the other room, but the big, glorious log basket that consumes trees and heats up the night sky. I then opened a bottle of nice red wine and sat in front of the fire eating cheese and biscuits, ... and I enjoyed every minute of it

Sounds great! We lit our fire last week too. Stove though not open fire. But lovely to sit in front of an inglenook on a chilly summers evening.

 

[mattice]

We found a damp course today! No idea how the 1980's extension managed a 2 1/2 brick courses of external buildup. I'd eliminated this as a cause of our damp cupboards.... digging a hole is exciting isn't it?