Posts Tagged ‘Wallpaper’

A Wallpaper Update!!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

You may remember that I wrote a while back about how much I hate removing wallpaper (here) and how I promised to get some photos of the welded on wallpaper in the stairwell and the lack of plaster in one of the bedrooms. Well, at last the photos are here!

Clay Lump BricksThis one shows how not only did the wallpaper come off, but also all the plaster including the original clay plaster, so now we just have the original clay lumps left! Thank goodness areas like these will get re-plastered as part of phase 1 as I’m not sure our daughter (whose bedroom it is) will want to be lying under that mess every night!

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I Hate Wallpaper!!

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

I hate wallpaper – it’s official!! OK, maybe that’s a little unfair … it’s not wallpaper I hate, it’s stripping wallpaper that really makes me mad! Lately I’ve been finishing off the stripping in one of the bedrooms and also the stairwell with mixed fortunes in both. In the bedroom, some of the wallpaper came off fairly easily whilst other areas took ages with a steamer. Much of the plaster is blown in there, and there is a huge chunk of wall where there is no plaster left as I took it down because it was so loose! I will take a photo of the offending wall so you can see, but basically you can now see the clay lump ‘bricks’ as any original clay plaster that would have been covering them also came off! It’s a bit scary, but we’re having to get a lot of re-plastering done, so it will get ‘fixed’ eventually! (more…)

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Ten Days Later!

Monday, August 18th, 2008

So, it’s been 10 days since we bought Waterloo Farm and it still feels quite surreal! Each time we go I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming, and I find myself wandering round the house saying “I love this house!” which can only be a good thing when you consider the hard work that is to come in the not too distant future! We’ve been there quite a lot over the last week or so, especially so over the weekend. The kids have had a great time playing on the trampoline and outside generally which has made me really happy as the outside space was a major factor in our plans. I think they will take a little while to become real ‘outsiders’ so to speak but we’re determined to wean them off their various electronic gadgets before too long and make the into children who live in their wellies! (more…)

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