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Roof Update: wall now cleared in the main. We did find a lot of sand and rubble behind the lathe. It is likely that this was causing our damp problems - acting as a wick between the stone wall and the lathe and plaster interior. #HouseRestoration #StormAmy #Damp

2/3 The lathe came off quite easily but was very messy coming down. And our arms ache! I get extra points for doing a stint while OH watched the rugby. I am sure that is why Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 won!

3/3 for @ColesStreetPothole especially but also everyone else: this is when we downed tools tonight.

Coles Street Pothole Mar 8

@Janet_52square 😎 Some sort of vapor barrier is going there? 🤔 As the owner of a brick home with plaster walls and no insulation, I am curious....

Ray McCarthy Mar 8

@Janet_52square @ColesStreetPothole
You both must be wrecked now!

Coles Street Pothole Mar 8

@raymaccarthy @Janet_52square
Well, it looks like Janet is, at least. 😁
https://sunny.garden/@Janet_52square/116195580349519276

Janet (@[email protected])

@[email protected] oh had a dram and forgot!!

Sunny Garden

@ColesStreetPothole @raymaccarthy 🤣

BashStKid Mar 8

@Janet_52square @ColesStreetPothole Goodness, that’s a lot of work (quite a while since I’ve done that myself).

I haven’t been keeping up with things; where do you think the damp is originating? Sure, that slumped damp sand in the interwall isn’t helping.

Sue Archer Mar 8

@Janet_52square

Wow, that's great progress!

Coles Street Pothole Mar 8

@Janet_52square 😎

What’s 3/3? 🤔

😁

@ColesStreetPothole oh had a dram and forgot!!

Coles Street Pothole Mar 8

@Janet_52square That sounds like 3/3 to me. 😂

@ColesStreetPothole @Janet_52square
i was just about to reply and say that i do love the rhythm and pull of a good waltz and then realised that's probably not what you meant 😂

but also, goodness me, you've been busy janet. well done for the problem solving! is the roof all ok now?

@moonrabbit @ColesStreetPothole I like to waltz - I like ballroom dancing tbh. I might like it better than stripping out my bedroom 🙄

Coles Street Pothole Mar 9

@Janet_52square @moonrabbit Wait—that's your bedroom? 😱 RIP a good night's sleep.

@ColesStreetPothole @moonrabbit Sleeping in Offspring’s room (since 7th October) with far too much displaced stuff - and now copious amounts of dust. Though I am enjoying the Dr Who wall art and the various Pride Flags…

@Janet_52square @ColesStreetPothole

how much more have you got to do before you can put it back again (well i mean not back how it was with the damp and all ... you know what i mean!)

Coles Street Pothole Mar 9

@moonrabbit @Janet_52square
And, if you're going to wall it back up with some space behind it, will you leave a time capsule/message in a bottle for the *next* folks who open up the wall? 😁

@ColesStreetPothole @Janet_52square
just something like "i feel your pain" 😂

Coles Street Pothole Mar 9

@moonrabbit @Janet_52square
[demos wall]
[finds tin box]
[finds bottle inside tin box]
[finds note inside bottle]
[reads note...]
"Ain't homeownership a bitch? Love, Janet"

@ColesStreetPothole @moonrabbit The time for doing this is now. I’m on it. Inside the sealed cavity behind the drawers in my miniature desk is a note in tiny pencil handwriting that reads ‘Janet me fecit’ that will only ever been seen again if the desk is taken apart in its entirety. The true Scots term for someone who does things like this is ‘wanker’.

@Janet_52square @ColesStreetPothole
i love this so much. both the tiny room (the detail is amazing, and that desk!

and the tiny wee lampshade toooooo)
and the note and all. ooooh you could leave something in the big wall that leads to something in the little wall ... (and drive future people utterly mad)

@moonrabbit @ColesStreetPothole Starts to plan a room box of the bedroom in 1/12 scale to wall up in bedroom wall forever… 🙄

@Janet_52square @ColesStreetPothole
ah no don't wall it up in the same place, make them hunt for it! 😂 they'll be soooo grateful that it'll *totally* be worth your time now.

@moonrabbit @ColesStreetPothole Begins mapping maze complex…

Sue Archer Mar 10

@Janet_52square @moonrabbit @ColesStreetPothole

A lady at Miniature Club is making a sort of Book nook, but it'll just be a miniature book shelf that sits between two of her books. I suggested that the miniature bookshelf needs a miniaturer one between two of the books and so on....

Perhaps a miniature bedroom, with one stripped wall, and in that wall a miniature bedroom with one stripped wall......

@suearcher @moonrabbit @ColesStreetPothole Adds more research to the project!

@suearcher @Janet_52square @ColesStreetPothole
ooooh. if something like that happened, janet would need to offer tours really. or at least make a yt video!

@Janet_52square @ColesStreetPothole
you could make a tiny minotaur

😂

Coles Street Pothole Mar 10

@moonrabbit @Janet_52square With a tea set! 😂

@ColesStreetPothole @Janet_52square
ooh now i want to make a tiny tiny tea set! (until i actually start trying to 😂)

Coles Street Pothole Mar 9

@Janet_52square @moonrabbit For some reason I am reminded of this movie....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York

Synecdoche, New York - Wikipedia

Coles Street Pothole Mar 9

@Janet_52square @moonrabbit 😂 Of course you did.

Spouse is admiring your tiny room. 🙂 We are both very impressed.

EDIT: OMG, there's a book under the divan.

Alfred Chow - Maker of Things Mar 8

@Janet_52square
Excellent work!

Heck of a tidy up though. I remember those days....

@Maker_of_Things Honestly the dust is incredible. We’ve been tidying as we go but there is still masses to do in the morning.

Alfred Chow - Maker of Things Mar 8

@Janet_52square
Are you replacing it yourselves or contractors via the insurance?

Foil backed and insulated board?

@Maker_of_Things No foil - it needs to be breathable but yes to some insulation.

Ray McCarthy Mar 8

@Janet_52square
Eeek!

@Janet_52square so what happens next? Does this wall get new lathe and plaster or insulation and Sheetrock?

@IcooIey We call it plasterboard… but yes I am afraid new lathe and plaster isn’t an option…

@Janet_52square plasterboard is a lot easier to deal with!

Ray McCarthy Mar 8

@Janet_52square

That certainly will wick moisture.

I've seen old cottages etc being renovated here and they put the kind of damp-proof membrane (Plastic sheet?) as used in solid concrete floors on the stone wall, then battens & insulation followed by an special plasterboard/drywall that has foil, plastic, insulation and plasterboard all in one.

No kind of drywall/plasterboard is accepted at the recycling centre as it's all composite.

Check the fire rating. Some Kingspan burns too well.

@raymaccarthy We’ve been advised only to use breathable membrane/insulated plasterboard so no Kingspan and nothing foil backed. A guy is coming to give us prices this week. 🤞

Ray McCarthy Mar 9

@Janet_52square
Good.
Glad you found an obvious cause.

There was an insulation grant here and loads of approved installers "retrofitting" foam to cavities caused huge dampness and mould issues. More sane companies added internal drywalls and/or non-flammable external cladding. Especially on cavity block build houses.

Also a disgrace was that cavity blocks with no external or internal insulation were allowed for houses here till recently.

My shed is cavity block which makes it cold and damp.

@MyKomment Mar 8

@Janet_52square
Is that sand meant to be rammed earth?
I wonder how it's going to breath with board?

@MyKomment Mar 8

@Janet_52square
Sorry, did I mention Dr Tim Meek for lime finishes?

@MyKomment Don’t know Tim, I took the Scottish Lime Trust homeowner’s course last October - learned a great deal. It isn’t suppose to be packed with sand, the sand come from deteriorated mortar in the wall.

@MyKomment Mar 9

@Janet_52square
Yes, I saw your ScotLimeTrust post, very very good.
I don't have that sort of property but due to heritage interests and being anti cavity wall insulation had followed lime people in twitter. Tim Meek is mainly a harling fan, there are others. There's so many opinions on internal insulation though, thanks for sharing yours.
There's a Glasgow tenement one too. Will find a link.

@MyKomment Mar 9

@Janet_52square
I wont bleat on but here's one. Sandstone solid wall using limecrete ( I think).
Lisa Pasquale, was on twitter, evaporated sadly.

@MyKomment Mar 9

@Janet_52square
https://youtu.be/Ge3nxP8JCl0?si=khHyGStJKrCUBKA-

Learn how Lisa Ann Pasquale retrofitted her Glasgow tenement flat

YouTube

@MyKomment Thanks! Will take a look. Liking the lime-nerd subgroup identity very much!!