It has been a busy week with 5 different groups of people on site. The painters have started outside with a coat of Osmo Natural Oil woodstain. The Douglas Fir cladding would have naturally gone grey, but at different rates depending on how much sunlight the wood was exposed to. Giving a coat of woodstain means that it will grey with age more evenly.
Inside, the tilers have started on the Travertine floor as you can see from this photo of the living room.
The plasterers turned up for a day to do a base coat of lime plaster in the wet room. Also Gary turned up with a digger so now the holes in the field are filled in with the mounds of subsoil evened out along the edge of the ditch.
And the regular team were still hard at work – fitting skirting boards inside, doing woodwork on the bookcases, and doing the fiddly job of fitting the aluminium capping to the roof cladding. The mesh is to stop insects making a home between the boards.
To round of the week, Ikea delivered the kitchen – all 200 boxes worth.