The floor is fully down! It still needs sanding and varnishing to finish it but you can clearly see the original half and the new boards. You might also spot the floor port, where we've got plugs in the centre of the room. It should make it much easier for things like heat embossing. I love seeing it come together like this. Each day getting a little closer to completion!
The guys have been working hard, and the floor is starting to come together. It's a slow job, but they're doing great work. I'm just impatient and want it to be done so we can move onto the next stages!!
Floorboards are back baby, yeah! Remember I told you they had taken all the existing floorboards to the workshop to be restored? Well, some of them didn't survive being removed. This floor is over 100 years old, and is tongue and groove, so when the boards were lifted, some of the tongues and/or grooves broke. There were also some boards which had been cut over the years to allow access underneath for things like wiring or gas pipes, so it's not a huge surprise that they weren't suitable to be re-laid. The guys have done an amazing job restoring [...]
Today we turn to the window! The window sill has been taken up and will be sanded and beautifully restored. It looks original but a bit unloved, so our fab builder will make it lovely again. The small wall in front of the window is on it's last legs (shoogly in the extreme!) so will come down and be rebuilt. The wood at the top middle and sides of the windows is not original, so has been removed. The top and sides will end up plastered, and I think the plan is to have wood down the centre. I [...]