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there's still a way to go on the main house. The external doors and
windows are fitted - and very nice they look too. All cotto floor tiling -
internal and external - is now laid. The internal tiles are grouted,
acid-washed and as of this weekend, soaking-up a second coat of wax
polish. The underfloor heating is pumping, improving the colouring of the
polished cotto, but consuming euros-worth of gas faster than a Soc-Gen
trader can lose a billion. We've got all lights working, but with bulbs
dangling out of the walls rather than inside the neat new light fittings we've
purchased from "Obi" in Corciano.
On Saturday morning, the two-man team arrived to install the three stufe -
wood burning stoves - that are going into the sitting room, reception room
and library. No part of this restoration project can proceed without
substantial and unnecessary re-work being required, and this simple
installation was no exception. The exhaust pipe set into the wall of the
library is too big and at the wrong height for the small stove being fitted.
So, this coming week, the pipe will have to be chased out of the plaster
and the opening moved further down the wall by about 15cms.
windows are fitted - and very nice they look too. All cotto floor tiling -
internal and external - is now laid. The internal tiles are grouted,
acid-washed and as of this weekend, soaking-up a second coat of wax
polish. The underfloor heating is pumping, improving the colouring of the
polished cotto, but consuming euros-worth of gas faster than a Soc-Gen
trader can lose a billion. We've got all lights working, but with bulbs
dangling out of the walls rather than inside the neat new light fittings we've
purchased from "Obi" in Corciano.
On Saturday morning, the two-man team arrived to install the three stufe -
wood burning stoves - that are going into the sitting room, reception room
and library. No part of this restoration project can proceed without
substantial and unnecessary re-work being required, and this simple
installation was no exception. The exhaust pipe set into the wall of the
library is too big and at the wrong height for the small stove being fitted.
So, this coming week, the pipe will have to be chased out of the plaster
and the opening moved further down the wall by about 15cms.
In the shot
above, the cotto
tiling on the
bridge was being
grouted on
Saturday
morning, as the
stufe (wood
burning stoves)
were being
delivered. The
two photos on
the right are of
the finished job.
above, the cotto
tiling on the
bridge was being
grouted on
Saturday
morning, as the
stufe (wood
burning stoves)
were being
delivered. The
two photos on
the right are of
the finished job.
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| The two big stufe being installed in the sitting room and in the reception room upstairs. The fireplace is, of course, the original. "false" fireplace downstairs on the basis that a) there would never have been a fireplace in what was originally a stable, and; b) these stoves are designed to be freestanding anyway. |
| first coat of heated liquid wax polish to the kitchen floor |
The new double doors overlooking the valley. The external steps were tiled
during the week and are yet to be grouted.
during the week and are yet to be grouted.
This is the
new door
into the
cantina,
inside and
to the right,
from the
outside.
new door
into the
cantina,
inside and
to the right,
from the
outside.
| Whoops! The chimney vent in the wall in the library is too wide and too high for the stufa being installed. |
remove the old lining. As the pool has been uncovered for some months,
the leafy green slime at the bottom was quite unpleasant. Whether this
justified the full white decontamination suit donned by one of the
contractors is however, open to question.
the leafy green slime at the bottom was quite unpleasant. Whether this
justified the full white decontamination suit donned by one of the
contractors is however, open to question.