Denied what!? It wasn't me!!You havenβt denied it either
Denied what!? It wasn't me!!You havenβt denied it either
I had to do that the other day. For a delivery under a tenner!!Just had to sign for a parcel!
PROPERLY sign for!
Nearly fainted! Normally they just leave it ont step and flip off.
Twas the Post Office this time!
Worth it though if it means it actually does get delivered. We had our hearts in our mouths yessdi to see if a load of stuff eventually made it to peeps in Paris, from Froggy Amazon.I had to do that the other day. For a delivery under a tenner!!
Appy buffdee ter me
Bit damp furrit
Just had to sign for a parcel!
PROPERLY sign for!
Nearly fainted! Normally they just leave it ont step and flip off.
Twas the Post Office this time!
Appy buffdee ter me
Bit damp furrit
Wet as 'eck today!
W off to get a tooth capped, sewing club and shopping for the stuff she forgotted or isn't getting delivered. The sprouts apparently have to be "just so".
Meanwhile I am staying in for two deliveries and fiddling around with fiddly bits of skirting board.
Went to oldest dottir's place for a sort of pre christmas tea and present swop, last night.
She showed me round the building site that is their house, (they are currently living in the annex). The ceilings originally were too low eve for people of my height, (5'9"). They are altering an extension and building new bits on as they aren't covered by the listing.
Discovered for the first time that the listed cottage was originally a barn, back in the 1600s. Which partly explains why it is such a money pit! Nowt like a 200 yr old "barn conversion". They have discovered that one of the internal (listed) walls which looks like it may have been wattle and daub cos it has wooden uprights, well the bottom 3 or 4 " of wood has just rotten away. (The water table is almost just mms under the floor) So they are going to have to knock it down, rebuild it the same and then, as it is useless to them, drywall it or summat. Previously they had to knock down and rebuild one of the end external walls. Of course there are no foundations.
I tried to take pics on my phone of this and the wall where there is/was the old copper boiler, the bread oven and the fireplace which used to be open, now a stove obvs. But I'm not much cop with it, or it isn't much cop!
She always has had eyes bigger than chequebook. At least the house cost her nothing as part of the divorce settlement.
Couldn't imagine doing this.
Must admit I did manage to get three initials recognisable by me or anyone who knows me, with the tip of a finga!You mean squiggle on the screen not with a pen
Hello , Hope all are well and all enjoying life.
Obvs with listed stuff you have to be careful. I have no idea how often anyone inspects anything. One of the really daft things is that they have front windows which are metal, smallish panes almost Crittall except they were individually made to fit the window spaces and THESE flipping things are now listed!!!Sounds like a right head ache, id be acrow propping it up & cementing a stone support under the beam with dpc
box it in never to be seen again lol
Wotcha matey!Hello , Hope all are well and all enjoying life.
Obvs with listed stuff you have to be careful. I have no idea how often anyone inspects anything. One of the really daft things is that they have front windows which are metal, smallish panes almost Crittall except they were individually made to fit the window spaces and THESE flipping things are now listed!!!
They have sliding secondary double glazing on the inside. So really pretty horrible. So they are going to have to have made double glazing units out of metal that look like the "originals", which are hardly original to a 19th century barn conversion as they were probably made in the 1960s. . Don't think it got listed until the 1980s or 90s.
The problem with the wooden uprights is that the bottoms have turned to powder and they don't know how far up the rot has gone. They aren't just two uprights at the ends of the walls, they are spaced across the wall at about 3 to 4 foot intervals. I'll really have to look harder at trying to enhance the rubbish pics I took so you can see what I mean. I don't think they are load bearing, but who knows? Each one is about 3" by 3" so may just be part of the 17th century barn walls or dividers.
They have had to have planning permission for the new or modified extension so yep some stuff has been inspected and will probably be so again. The outside wall they had to knock down and then rebuild, due to it basically being on the point of falling down, they rebuilt exactly as original after doing the foundations. I don't think they used the original bricks, they may have, if not they must have got others from a reclaim place. I was looking at all this by the light of the torch on my phone so not terribly easy to see.If its open for anyone to see id be doing as original, unseen covered up will never be inspected unless they put planning
permission to change the building. Get some pics so we can see whats going on. Send pics of the windows too.
Obvs with listed stuff you have to be careful. I have no idea how often anyone inspects anything. One of the really daft things is that they have front windows which are metal, smallish panes almost Crittall except they were individually made to fit the window spaces and THESE flipping things are now listed!!!
They have sliding secondary double glazing on the inside. So really pretty horrible. So they are going to have to have made double glazing units out of metal that look like the "originals", which are hardly original to a 19th century barn conversion as they were probably made in the 1960s. . Don't think it got listed until the 1980s or 90s.
The problem with the wooden uprights is that the bottoms have turned to powder and they don't know how far up the rot has gone. They aren't just two uprights at the ends of the walls, they are spaced across the wall at about 3 to 4 foot intervals. I'll really have to look harder at trying to enhance the rubbish pics I took so you can see what I mean. I don't think they are load bearing, but who knows? Each one is about 3" by 3" so may just be part of the 17th century barn/ bier walls or dividers.
Here is the opposite wall with the space to the left where the big copper had been, the inglenook and the bread oven, which apparently may have been fired from outside, although there ias an obvious hole at the bottom, maybe for ash removal.
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The floor has now been lowered, I am 5'9" and can stand underneath that lowest beam which is at right angles to the fireplace, but if i put my hand flat on my head it touches, well, hets a bit squashed so you can imagine how much lower it was before the work.
This is the wall I am on about. The verticals with the rotten bottoms are clear. Although I was unable to photograph the bottoms of them. (I hardly ever use my phone as a camera.)
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The door shows the height of the floor before.
The place is thatched, and weirdly the roof has at some point been raised so there is more headroom under the gables etc than there is downstairs.
Some people really are gluttons for punishment. Still the extension etc will be much more practical!
Obvs with listed stuff you have to be careful. I have no idea how often anyone inspects anything. One of the really daft things is that they have front windows which are metal, smallish panes almost Crittall except they were individually made to fit the window spaces and THESE flipping things are now listed!!!
They have sliding secondary double glazing on the inside. So really pretty horrible. So they are going to have to have made double glazing units out of metal that look like the "originals", which are hardly original to a 19th century barn conversion as they were probably made in the 1960s. . Don't think it got listed until the 1980s or 90s.
The problem with the wooden uprights is that the bottoms have turned to powder and they don't know how far up the rot has gone. They aren't just two uprights at the ends of the walls, they are spaced across the wall at about 3 to 4 foot intervals. I'll really have to look harder at trying to enhance the rubbish pics I took so you can see what I mean. I don't think they are load bearing, but who knows? Each one is about 3" by 3" so may just be part of the 17th century barn/ bier walls or dividers.
Here is the opposite wall with the space to the left where the big copper had been, the inglenook and the bread oven, which apparently may have been fired from outside, although there ias an obvious hole at the bottom, maybe for ash removal.
View attachment 305315
The floor has now been lowered, I am 5'9" and can stand underneath that lowest beam which is at right angles to the fireplace, but if i put my hand flat on my head it touches, well, hets a bit squashed so you can imagine how much lower it was before the work.
This is the wall I am on about. The verticals with the rotten bottoms are clear. Although I was unable to photograph the bottoms of them. (I hardly ever use my phone as a camera.)
View attachment 305316
The door shows the height of the floor before.
The place is thatched, and weirdly the roof has at some point been raised so there is more headroom under the gables etc than there is downstairs.
Some people really are gluttons for punishment. Still the extension etc will be much more practical!