It's been well over a month since the last update. Various things like birthdays, camping trips, weddings and holidays have been going on which has caused work to come to a stop.
But, it proceeded again last weekend with the beginnings of insulating the conical ceiling.
Basically, you may remember that it looks like this:
We had bought 3 sheets of 75mm Celotex on eBay and began the long and laborious task of measuring each individual triangle section, sawing it out and stuffing it in.
Expandable glue foam helped fill the small gaps, but came at a price. Alas, poor Andy was on the receiving end of a rogue piece of foam, making a break for freedom, high in the rafters. It came to a rest on top his head expanding away happily, and stealthily. It was only when Andy noticed the stuff expanding into his ear was evasive action taken. Evasive action being Andy running to get some scissors and chop it out. 2 bald patches later, and we had completed our task.
We took a trip to Wicks today and got some plaster board that we are hoping (through trial and error) to curve around the roof. Andy is going to make a cardboard template first as it really is a fiddly shape!
It's good that after a lot of destruction, we are finally starting to put something back in again.
On the plans front - our architect sent us a second set of sketches and it was perfect!! As soon as we get a copy of them I will show you the plan! I'm happy because it gives us a second bedroom and a decent size bathroom whilst not taking up hideous amounts of space outside. It is single story, but that's because the main building is only height and a half and I think anything too big would be over powering and take focus off the old part.
When the plans are drawn, we want to submit to planning so hopefully by early next year we will get a decision and can start building. Yay!
Every time I'm feeling annoyed about living in the caravan, I step outside and take in the view
And then I don't feel annoyed any more
:-)
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