We had a fine day today so pushed ahead with the stone work on the internal kitchen wall. It is forecast for wet weather again tomorrow, so we might not be able to finish the rest of the kitchen wall off until Saturday (which is the next dry day).
We decided to use reclaimed stone (from a couple of walls that we demolished onsite) to build the front kitchen wall. This will provide a kind of feature wall and help avoid a large expanse of painted plaster! Once the wall is up, we will sand blast the stone to remove any debris and paint. The wall will then be pointed. All of this needs to happen before the roof or the windows go in. This will probably happen in the next 2-3 weeks.
The internal and external kitchen walls. Both made out of reclaimed stone.
The internal kitchen wall has been built (or at least part of it) today. We are using some of the stone that we reclaimed when demolishing some internal walls in the existing cottages.
This the door into the bottom room and the utility room beyond. You can see the back of the internal kitchen wall going up.
Looking from the lounge into the kitchen. This is the new internal kitchen wall.
We have made the best of the dry weather today and pushed ahead with the internal kitchen wall. Rain is due again tomorrow, but there is some more fine weather forecast for Saturday.