{"id":3460,"date":"2022-01-25T21:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2022-05-31T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T13:57:32","slug":"winter-jobs-and-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/winter-jobs-and-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Jobs and 2022 Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve realised I never get anything done on the house over winter &#8211; there is always a 3 month gap in the blog.  I keep planning to do work over the winter like the electrics, the kitchen, the floor in the ballroom but it never happens.   Nothing ever happens over winter especially now I have Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year I&#8217;m planning to out-smart the house by spending the summer getting on with all the winter jobs that have been building up.   Apart from maybe when the weather is nice and I can be outside doing things&#8230;   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/winter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/winter.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/winter-450x250.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/winter-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/winter-624x347.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo 2017 when it snowed).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lime season is Late April to late October apart from the middle of the summer when it&#8217;s too hot.   Shrinkage in the new green oak gable timber frame needs some oakum to fill the gaps.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linseed paint season is late July to early August and the front timbers need a coat of boiled linseed as they are dusting and shedding black pigment onto my limewash.   And the front door needs another coat of yellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flat roof toilet block extension needs to be painted in terracotta limewash.  A bit bold but probably better than Magnolia.  My strategy is to paint it in a different colour from the house so I can pretend it belongs to someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the indoors stuff that is really holding me up.   It&#8217;s been a real pain finding trades.   Trades are all very busy and quotes these days are 4 times higher than usual.  This year I&#8217;m planning to do all the stuff I would have preferred to outsource.  I can get on with everything else next year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also I&#8217;m thinking about buying an E-Type project to keep me busy over the winter.   I&#8217;ll need a garage for that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve realised I never get anything done on the house over winter &#8211; there is always a 3 month gap in the blog. I keep planning to do work over the winter like the electrics, the kitchen, the floor in the ballroom but it never happens. Nothing ever happens over winter especially now I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}