Pointing, driveway...

27 March 2014

A few days turned into ten, but it was well worth the wait. Tom emailed us to say that he didn't want to send photos of lots of half-finished jobs and would wait until the barn was looking neat, demonstrating once again his pride in the project.


The digger guy has been on site to dig the drainage trench. He picked a nice day for it.

Apart from that little break in the weather, it's been a wet couple of weeks on site, which has provided a perfect opportunity to do the pointing...

... and the self-levelling flooring, which Tom says is much smoother.

PS. Has it changed inside?

In the end, Tom wasn't happy to leave the shutters with only one coat of paint, given the weather, so Gregg applied a second coat and the shutters are now up and doing their job of protecting those lovely windows. The colour looks a little pale to me, but maybe that's just the photos, and, as G points out, when they are shut, they don't make the room gloomy. Beautiful shutters, aren't they? 

The oak flooring is at the barn now, and acclimatising happily. It is scheduled to be laid in early April, before our arrival.

The little vertical iron bar has been fixed to the casement of the shower room window...

...and the geotextile membrane and gravel has been laid on the driveway and terrace. (The yellowish colour of the dust will wash away in time, revealing the white gravel.)

Forthcoming attraction: the stairs!