Progress all around

Bedrooms 2 & 3 are now plastered - thank you so much to Tony Buckingham, Justin and Jake who worked like Trojans.  A beautiful smooth finish - and this time I promise to listen to Tony and that the first coat of paint will be a mist coat (when doing the bathrooms I believed the salesman who persuaded me to buy a very expensive paint on the promise that a mist coat wouldn't be needed - but it has peeled in some areas).

Marc is levelling out around the front of the house, preparing the ground for a stone path immediately next to the house with a small border of plants next to the road.  A very stressful job as there are cables only 15 cm down.  The trenches you can see here are for the footings for a stone retaining wall on the road side of the path.

Terry and Ashley have been joined by Danny and are continuing with rendering - here we have the Caselle garage and David's workshop all scratched and finished.

Last but not least we have been preparing the garage for screeding at 07:00 tomorrow.  This involved scraping the garage floor to remove all concrete lumps, endless sweeping, two layers of a thick polythene damp proof membrane, sheets of super strength Kingspan Styrozone - insulation which can take the load of a car; this is rabbited at the edges so it all slots together beautifully.  Finally there will be one more layer of waterproof membrane on top before the screed is poured over.