Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

ukmaggie45

Wow, massive hail storm, pavements white! And only abouyt 10 mins ago the sun was cracking the flags! Glad I'm not at the lottie just now!

rozeepozee

Good to hear from you Rum. Hugs to you both.

It's too cold here to type!

I have tenant issues, a falling out amongst flatmates, and I am playing mum

Lots of admin type things to sort out today. Insurance, septic tank commissioning, window warranties....Still wrangling over the builders final bill and snagging.... We still have some issues to resolve with buildig control about bits and pieces outstanding from the main contractors work. Our QS has been marvellous.

But it the house is looking fabulous in there and the scaffolding has now come down (I haven't been out to have a look yet).

Sproglets are home for lunch so I must dash. I love hearing about Alfie's adventures. If your mate doesn't want any of those dressers....

Our "kitchen" currently comprises of a cavernous, double height extension with nothing but an unconnected oven in it! :rotfl:

Hello again Jayne! Must confess that we fancy a bit more woodland, if only for our own wood. We have about half an acre of old old trees at the moment..... Are we on an hedonic treadmill for buying bits of land?

ukmaggie45

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Wow, massive hail storm, pavements white! And only abouyt 10 mins ago the sun was cracking the flags! Glad I'm not at the lottie just now!

Gosh, sun out again already! Amazed at how fast the weather can change some days! :cool:

rozeepozee

Not a long shot at all Phoebe! We have just installed about £5Ks worth of it. What do you want to know?

We have gone for Grey Green. PM me with your email and I can send you some pics.

phoebe1989seb

rozeepozee wrote: »

Not a long shot at all Phoebe! We have just installed about £5Ks worth of it. What do you want to know?

We have gone for Grey Green. PM me with your email and I can send you some pics.

Thanks so much Rozee - I had a feeling it was you Would love to see some pics please so will PM you my email Really just wanted to know how it looks on an older property compared to natural timber (which a neighbour has in our village) - as our main house is Georgian stone/thatch, whether it was easy to install (DH will be doing it himself) and if longevity & price-wise it's worth going for.....especially as we intend selling this year

Thanks again xxx

phoebe1989seb

Rozee - just tried to PM you, but your inbox is full x

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Gosh, sun out again already! Amazed at how fast the weather can change some days! :cool:

Consistently grey here with worse to come.:(

As I felt energetic, I spent the morning down at the Dog End, filling the gaps in the hedge with rusty hurdles. I don't think Mr Organic's sheep are very interested in breaking into there again, but now I've made it close to impossible, I can get on and plant my laurels.

Glad you are pleased with the result now your build is close to finishing, rozee.

Even half an acre of trees will yield quite a lot of timber, and in your neck of the woods, small parcels of woodland are often offered at realistic prices.

RAS

Rain, sunshine, grey, rain, sunshine and we have just had an amazing hail storm and high winds both or which have now completely died away.

I wish it would just stay dry for 2 days so I can get on the ground.

rozeepozee

Phoebe, I'm a little conflicted about the weatherboard. My heart wants real wood, but practically, Cedral offers a great deal. You can insulate behind it and it needs no maintenance. It's clean and it's straightforward to install.

What's surprised me, is that no one in our village thought it wasn't painted wood.

The builders did a whole deal of huffing and puffing about its installation but this was because it took a long time and was fiddly, lots of cuts. It just required joinery skills. Overall, I'm glad we went with it.

Choosing the colour was a bit of a daunting prospect. Part of me wishes we had been really adventurous and gone for something bolder (red?) but because we are not doing the entire house in weatherboard, there's still some areas which will be in a more traditional looking render and we may be brave and choose a bolder colour on that. If we bottle, it will be a mid or charcoal grey to differentiate and contrast with the fairly light grey green, which is basically a sage colour.

I've PM'd you my email address. If you can reply, I'll send some pics. It's a 1960s bungalow, not a character build, but it will give you an idea. I suppose you've seen the case studies on Marley's website? And there are plenty of examples of weatherboarding if you google. Houzz is a great site to look at because it's American and they do loads of weatherboarding.

lostinrates

Getting a bit stressed.


We're going to have same problem as last spring, too much rain to spray or cut befor things have got so big we are fighting an I winnable war.

I'm gagging to spray. (Remember that organic dream) some areas.

Areas lightly weedy and still ok to hand weed are unmet table too because of water, either behind ditches or over beds I don't want to Walk on.


Buda appearing on fruit trees (including the two new ones) and they simply won't listen when I tell them to stay asleep




Although it will make us really exposed I'm thinking about hauling out some more hedge and panting more yew. DH doesn't want to do it all at once so we aren't too exposed so I think we should do half this year, so its not far behind the stuff we planted last year (which actually has made almost no upwards growth but none the less looks short and healthy!) and the rest in a couple of years. I'll take cuttings of the big yew for that this year.