Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

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There are only so many plumbing incidents that ceiling could stand. Some failed, we removed the rest, because we couldn't leave it falling randomly or half finished. So, its done. We always wanted to eventually. Just.......not yet.


The floor boards above are more damaged than we'd hoped. We knew some needed replacing, sitting around wet has not helped.


I don't know if what's felt will withstand sandblasting, and the beams need it, they are a hideous orange varnish colour, but where the ceiling was can see they were a nice colour really. Big gaps at either end too, so will need some sort of coving, or a plasterer who can give me deeply curved soft corners to make up the big gap. . All in all, a sad day.

Ceiling going does make room feel strangely bigger though.

choille

Who sneezed....?

That looks seriously expensive.

I_have_spoken

I've always been tempted by some garden sculpture so there's something when the plants die back...Easter Island head (Moai) works well IMHO...won't need to daub with yoghurt it'll get moss soon enough in the Scottish rain!

I did wonder if the Moai would be look rather sinister in the garden, but actually it's rather elegant.

ukmaggie45

A week ago today we went to one of the Open Garden Scheme's gardens in Pwllheli, a house called Penmaen. The gardens were superb, though there's obviously a lot of work still going on there - they are terracing the rocks around the main big outcrop that has a ruined tower on top of it. There are hundreds of pink roses planted, and on our way home to Liverpool on Friday we found we could see the swathes of pink from the road. Anyway, LiR, I thought of you and your fondness for roses, so here's a picture of one of the rose tunnels for you. It also has wisteria climbing amongst the roses, but it didn't look terrible happy to me - over exposed to wind I suspect, though may get better as it gets bigger.

Rose Tunnel by ukmaggie45, on Flickr

The views from the garden were stunning! I managed to climb up the path to the rocky outcrop that has a tower perched on top. So the first few pictures are the view, then there's quite a lot of the plantings. The full set of pics is here.

Cost £10 each to go in, but we did get a bowl of Eton Mess and a glass of fizz each for that! And there was music, but I was so tired after a couple of hours we had to leave before the flower arranging demonstration started. I really hope that they open the gardens again in future years, as it would be interesting to see what they plant up in the terraces they are constructing.

choille

LIR - Once the ceiling lost cohesion much safer for it to be down as it was unstable as you say.

Lovely shape of beams - really attractive feature. Will you stick plaster board up btw the rafters & get some sound deadening up there - it'll look grand.

IHS - Very nice head.

choille

Beautiful photos Maggie - gorgeous roses. I killed a similar one that was my late MILs. I can get another & will as BIL has one going strong. It's such a prolific flowerer & we did have it at a cottage we lived in previously. I planted a cutting near our burn & the other hard Winter it froze & it died.

The obelisks in the photos are desirable. I trimmed a few trees & hoped to make some crude ones for clemitis.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Who sneezed....?

That looks seriously expensive.

The frustration we've had following bathroom with the plumber and numerous small faults have been many. That ceiling ( room below) has Bourne the brunt one time too many. A stopped off valve failed on Thursday . Our new plumbers came out and fixed. We know seem to have an issue on another valve in the shower that its sticking and hot water isn't always responding. I really could scream. Very, very loudly. Every single thing in there had had an issue. It went WAY over what we had expect ed a bathroom to cost because of the structural work any way, then various other annoyances and after spending lots on it you kinda want the bloody thing to WORK! :rotfl:

choille

To set up as a plumber is easy! What you need is someone well established. Some buy cheap valves, that are cheap to buy really in any case, but they buy cheap rubbish................for a pennorth o' tar the ship was spoilt! Like light switches you should buy good uns, as the cheap uns are absolute crap.

ferretkeeper

I feel your pain LIR, thank god no one was underneath when it went :eek:



This is the kitchen ceiling, the bath is directly above - the shower was leaking down the wall then the bath developed a leaky waste. We'll get to this when we re-do the kitchen, whenever that is! Note the grubby Pickford box, still unpacked after being here 5 years :rotfl:

And this one:



This is our downstairs loo ceiling (view from the throne!) it's next to the kitchen but don't think it's related...one day a couple of months ago hubby shut the door and the ceiling fell in behind it. There was a weird suction when you pulled the door closed, it seems to have been resolved! This isn't on the schedule so no idea when we might get to it, probably same time as kitchen ceiling.

Nothing as attractive as your beams under there sadly just the old lathes.

choille

We had similar in a very old cottage we rented.

You don't want it coming down on top of you though.