{"id":1566,"date":"2017-02-17T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2023-09-22T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:00:51","slug":"kitchen-snug-and-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/kitchen-snug-and-bedroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen, Snug and Bedroom &#8211; Even More Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only been a month since the last post and look at the difference!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The side of the house we are working on has first fix electrics, the door frames are in and the internal stud walls have been plastered.&nbsp; The external walls have a base coat of lime plaster which is taking a very long time to dry in the cold weather, but hopefully will dry more quickly now the dehumidifier and heater are running.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kitchen-plastered-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"kitchen-plastered\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kitchen-plastered-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kitchen-plastered-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kitchen-plastered.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kitchen-plastered-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The snug next to the kitchen is a very old room that has survived largely intact with it&#8217;s wattle &amp; daub and it&#8217;s inch thick straw plaster.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some damage was exposed when the wood panelling was removed, and some great chunks of cement fell out of the walls.&nbsp;&nbsp; The base coat of lime is drying and the walls have been prepared for a skim coat in lime.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I want to paper the ceiling and walls with lining paper so they can be rescued again more easily in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/snug-prep-for-plaster-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"snug-prep-for-plaster\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/snug-prep-for-plaster-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/snug-prep-for-plaster-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/snug-prep-for-plaster.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/snug-prep-for-plaster-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sole plate in the internal wall of the snug turned out to be underground and therefore rotten.&nbsp;&nbsp; Normally sole plates are a good 15 inches above ground on brick plinths and therefore dry.&nbsp; I put this wall down to lazy Jacobean builders!&nbsp; The wall doesn&#8217;t support much any more so we&#8217;ll prop the posts up on bricks and remove the sole plate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/buried-sole-plate-450x360.jpg\" alt=\"buried-sole-plate\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/buried-sole-plate-450x360.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/buried-sole-plate-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/buried-sole-plate.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/buried-sole-plate-624x499.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile upstairs, the bedroom ceiling has been skimmed which neatly hides the artex, the bit that I put my foot through while insulating the loft, and the rotten bit that Rocco replaced with lath and lime.<\/p>\n<p>The floor boards are up near the window because I wasn&#8217;t convinced by the Edwardian approach to joist hanging.&nbsp; Modern joist hangers make the floor much less springy. &nbsp; It was also a good opportunity to finish off the plastering around the window &#8211; the scratch coat went on 2 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bedfoom-mess-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"bedfoom-mess\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bedfoom-mess-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bedfoom-mess-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bedfoom-mess.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bedfoom-mess-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only been a month since the last post and look at the difference!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The side of the house we are working on has first fix electrics, the door frames are in and the internal stud walls have been plastered.&nbsp; The external walls have a base coat of lime plaster which is taking a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen","category-snug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}