More good progress made!

I’m doing my best to keep all the balls in the air and not doing too badly really. I haven’t since had time to share the photos, but the day before I went off to pick up the caravan, I finished off the new windows in the bathroom and toilet by what the trade calls ‘toshing’ a coat of white emulsion around them and in the afternoon I did the jointing of the new tiles that I laid several days ago in front of my new patio door.

I think both jobs turned out pretty well and I’m only sorry that with my moving out by the end of June, the new owners will get more benefit from them than I will!

Today I started tackling a job that I’ve not been looking forward to at all – making good the interior walls either side of my new patio door. It only took half a day to get the first coat of rendering on but it was a tedious and frustrating experience as it’s not easy to get a surface on the original old stone walls that’s anything like acceptable. The right-hand wall was the worse of the two so I did that first.

I was very pleased with the final result and highly relieved to get the first stage done. There’s still quite a bit more to do, of course, including applying the one or more likely, two coats of plaster plus the ceiling in the alcove. If a pro had put the patio door in and finished off the whole job I’m sure it would have cost a fortune, so my house buyers are getting a bit of a bargain.

Anyway, I have to keep pressing on as I need to complete the jobs that I said I would before moving out. I think that I am just beginning to see a glimmer of light, though, at the end of the tunnel…