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Wednesday, August 27
by
Andrew Beard
on Wed 27 Aug 2008 04:26 PM BST
This was a really interesting project and although I was not to spend too much money on this report, some people are a bit mean, I found some friendly builders who temporarily swapped my 4m ladder for their triple extending ladders that enabled me to get onto the roof with reasonable safety. (Don't mention that to Health and Safety as they would have insisted on scaffolding!) A fascinating house, a former C of E property, on which little had been spent, even one of the 'bedroom's' was a barn, but vicars are supposed to live in some sort of hardship aren't they, or is just that the excuse of the church? Anyway no real nasties, but few of the walls were particularly plumb, but you won't be if you get that old. No dry rot, but death watch beetle by the lorry load and enough rising damp to float the SS Gt Brittan, though there were no real reasons not to proceed. A lot of work will be involved and a lot of work on it's history when the buyer gets bored with the renovations.
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