That's how it has been today. After a weekend of slogging out plastering, grinding mortar and scraping bricks Peter and Dave got stuck in and opened up the chimney so that we can get a quote for installing a new fireplace, good news. Bad news, there appears to be no lintel or any releiving arch or brickwork so that may boost the price up a bit. Good news also is that the flashing on the side of the building is OK. Bad news is that all the gutters on the house are knackerd, well I kind of knew this already, I was just choosing to ignore the whole thing. Just another thing to add to the pile of things to get done. The fireplace has however been boosted up the priority list as it is starting to get a bit colder. I guess if we were sensible squirrels we wouldn't wait till winter is on the door step...
On the weekend Sarah and I had a go at sorting out the brick wall in the kitchen. We started off scraping out he mortar, but after a bit we decided to up the ante a load more. I got a cheap angle grinder from the hardware store and together with Sarah we attacked the mortar that was sitting on the bricks and also chasing out the top of the pointing. All I can say was that it was really dusty. We put up a dust sheet in the hall, one of the old curtains, but it was as good as tits on a bull. The amount of fine black dust that came through and spread into the rest of the house was disturbing. It even ended up in the room in the attic!
Earlier in the day we took a break to go and support Julia in the Men's Health Challenge! 10km's of running with 10 obstacles to overcome, a bit of a army assault course. An amazing achievement and Jules finished the whole event.
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