Doug and I spent the day concreting the top of the walls around the wooden beams. We used lime concrete so that the wood can 'breathe' - we weren't quite sure whether we could use just normal concrete or not. Everything advises using lime concrete for old stone walls otherwise wood within them (ends of beams etc) will get damp and rot. We thought better safe than sorry. We did a 3 to 1 mix of melange (gravel and sand mixed by the quarry) and lime by volume (writing it down here so I remember for next time!)
I hate concreting and there is so much more to go before we are finished - pretty much the whole floor of the house, the garage and the area under this roof!
The roofer got all the 'paper' on to the main part of the roof (there is a small sloping area on the far side of te chinmney too) which means it is all waterproof again. Sambuca (the cat) will be pleased!
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