Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

COOLTRIKERCHICK

does anyone know what time the meeting is with Alfie???


Alfie we are all there with you...!!!!!

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Alfie we are all there with you...!!!!!

I wish we were! :rotfl:

CTC, you may have found this already, but I seem to recall there are discussions in here about renovating old (Welsh) cottages....;)

http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/forum114/

phoebe1989seb

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Morning all,


I know what you mean too Rummer, when the spring days start, I cant wait to go and sort/tidy the greenhouse, wash it down, and then start sowing like mad... and they come on lovely, then work gets in the way..lol...


LIR the house is on clay too, and its lime mortar all the way down.


As the stonemason said it is a catch 22 with these old buildings, as by putting a damp coarse in some times causes a lot more problems...


at the moment we are going with not doing the floor, as sometime in its life the old flagstones have been removed, and concrete put down..the damp on the inside walls could be down to the way the path outside the house was, and as Alfie will tell you, the old canopies in front of the front doors, were a water feeder for the front of the house, guttering broken so water was just pooring down and bouncing off the canopies right infront of the house,or it was like having a tap turned on and the water going under the house..


Is it the right thing for this house??? honestly don't know...and maybe in the future we will need to do the floor.. But the stonemason works for Cadw and historical buildings a very long time...and in his opinion sometimes/a lot of times modern building technics etc just make things 10x worse on old buildings..Like the bl00dy concrete render they put on this place... inside and out!! but in its day ( and even now) most builders will tell you to do that to cure damp etc,


I have been told right from the beginning.. with old stone buildings you can never cure everything...lol...

I'm inclined to agree with your stonemason CTC - and I certainly wouldn't advise injecting a house like yours or ours, which imho can only do more harm than good :eek:

lostinrates

Ours has damp course in only a couple of part (pre us) and ...its the only damp room!!!! (Ours isn't injected its a different sort, architect reckons its easy to rectify as we go through).


The membrane approach has worked brilliantly in the newly renovated bit.

CTC, maybe you should come and have a poke about here with alf? Eat cake....I can even bake some biswits? Because we're not finished and have a couple of hiccups ATM with weather we're ideally primed to show you what's working and what's not ....for our house. We are brick. Not stone though.

lucielle

Hope it goes ok Alfie. Give 'em hell.
L

lostinrates

Actually FTC, I might have some pictures of the internal build process I can email you.....they'll chomp you're band width a bit though.


I cannot post here ATM because photo bucket and I are not on speaking terms.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I cannot post here ATM because photo bucket and I are not on speaking terms.

Open Flickr account?

Although we're draining down well, the grass pathway to the back of the big barn has taken such a pummelling, I've decided to replace it with a proper path, so that's kept me out of mischief.

Yesterday, I removed one of the last big pieces of dumped material still hanging on here. It was a sheet of corrugated iron, folded over and buried down by the stream. I wanted to plant a bush where it was.
While I was digging that out, I also uncovered what looked like the axle of a ride on mower, or something similar. That had to stay.

Beats me why anyone needed to bury these things in the first place. :mad:

choille

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Morning all,


I know what you mean too Rummer, when the spring days start, I cant wait to go and sort/tidy the greenhouse, wash it down, and then start sowing like mad... and they come on lovely, then work gets in the way..lol...


LIR the house is on clay too, and its lime mortar all the way down.


As the stonemason said it is a catch 22 with these old buildings, as by putting a damp coarse in some times causes a lot more problems...


at the moment we are going with not doing the floor, as sometime in its life the old flagstones have been removed, and concrete put down..the damp on the inside walls could be down to the way the path outside the house was, and as Alfie will tell you, the old canopies in front of the front doors, were a water feeder for the front of the house, guttering broken so water was just pooring down and bouncing off the canopies right infront of the house,or it was like having a tap turned on and the water going under the house..


Is it the right thing for this house??? honestly don't know...and maybe in the future we will need to do the floor.. But the stonemason works for Cadw and historical buildings a very long time...and in his opinion sometimes/a lot of times modern building technics etc just make things 10x worse on old buildings..Like the bl00dy concrete render they put on this place... inside and out!! but in its day ( and even now) most builders will tell you to do that to cure damp etc,


I have been told right from the beginning.. with old stone buildings you can never cure everything...lol...

I think the render was a hide all thing & also to stop the water getting through the stone - the stone can be porous - which I think is the case with you. You still need a damp proof course whether or not you have been told it isn't necessary - it is indeed. Historically buildings were damp. We shouldn't be living in damp houses - it's not necessary & is a real health hazard.
Sorry to bang on, but it's a real no no.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

I think the render was a hide all thing & also to stop the water getting through the stone - the stone can be porous - which I think is the case with you. You still need a damp proof course whether or not you have been told it isn't necessary - it is indeed. Historically buildings were damp. We shouldn't be living in damp houses - it's not necessary & is a real health hazard.
Sorry to bang on, but it's a real no no.

I think how we heated historically was different too. We were more how people are now.....lower heat all the time (ranges or fires) and better at airing places.

Our houses have to suit a lifestyle we can abide by. In the past we were lucky to reach seventy. I am trying to create a house in which someone of any age might feel comfortable eventually. Its not that great now!

Better_Days

Wondering what sort of day alfie had????

My day has been fairly productive considering I have been sitting in bed all day - but surfing the internet looking at stoves. Finally settled on a Morso Squirell 1410 which I managed to find for £610 with free delivery next week. :D:D:D Waiting to hear back from the installer to see when it can be put in.