Our first guest!

Hello all and Merry Christmas,

Not really anything to do with the house, but here is our new resident just arrived today..... Peggy-Sue!

Peggy-Sue

Woof woof!

Hole in the Wall

On stripping some woodchip wallpaper in one of the downstairs rooms, one section near the window just peeled right off and the wall was soaking! F went straight to work investigating. He dug up the flowerbed outside the window and sure enough under the flowerbed there was a huge hole in the wall!

The culprit!

So this is what had caused the wall to be so damp and the sill and the bottom of the sash to rot, so F set about doing a beautiful repair to the wall, sill and window.

New sill and the rotten parts of the window cut out.

Rotten timber cut out.

New hardwood sill, spliced in hardwood in frame sections and wall repaired.

Original flagstones back.

The original flagstone were relaid at a lower level with a fall away from the building to prevent rainwater sitting against the building. So we are now nice and dry!

Escape from the Rat Race!

This is my first venture into blogging, so do excuse any oddities while I get to grips with it all.....
Well we did it, we sold our London flat and moved to beautiful Hay on Wye and we couldn't be happier! We have bought a Grade 2 listed house and are going to open a B&B, hopefully in time for the festival in May. It will be quite a journey as there is a lot to do and we are just at the start. So I am posting the first few pictures of the project so far, it has been mostly filling skips and now the real work is about to begin!

Radnor House today!

This will be the Sitting Room/Dining Room

The other Sitting Room or Dining Room

Stairs to the first floor

This will be the main Suite on the first floor.

Stairs to 2nd floor.

Second floor corridor, this will have 2 more ensuite bedrooms, 1 twin and 1 double.

 We will post more pictures when we get to the next stage!