With the smaller cottage all but bare, it is time to start turning our attention to the larger of the two cottages. As we are still using the kitchen for making cups of tea, we will leave this til last. First things to go are to remove all of the doors. These are solid pine and our initial thoughts were to put them on eBay, but frankly they are all odd sizes and unlikely to fit anyone else’s house. I removed all the brass fittings (for scrap) but unfortunately, the doors are destined for the bonfire.
Next came the carpets up the staircase and on the landing. Then the bathroom. Shower cubicle was quickly removed and then onto the other fixings. The water is turned off here, but the electric is still on. To be able to proceed with the stripping out much further will require the electric to be turned off, but then this will mean no electric on site. Therefore the next job is to get a temporary spur set up off the meter, so that we have one live socket in each house, but the rest of the electric is turned off. This is a job for a proper electrician!
With the carpet and the underlay removed, you can see the original stone staircase. The edges have been painted (many times) as there would have be a narrow “stair carpet” that would have run up the middle.
The only thing left of the shower cubicle is the shower tray. The wall behind the sink is a partition wall, however the electrics need to be sorted out (i.e. turned off) before we do too much stripping out here.