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<\/a><\/p>\nHaving stripped off the old cladding, we exposed another A-frame which was built when the building was re-roofed, we think, about 15 years ago.\u00a0 It also became obvious that the lower cross beam of that A-frame would prevent us gaining any significant space on the mezzanine to push the bed closer to the wall.<\/p>\n
Not being the sort of people to accept a minor problem like this, being highly-qualified structural engineers(!) we came up with a plan \u2013 move the cross beam.<\/p>\n Not only do these pictures show how many cables our electrician has had to install, and can now be hidden behind the new wall, you can see that we have raised the cross beam to buy us a few centimetres for the bed.<\/p>\n We think the A-frame is an attractive part of the building so we have decided to make it a feature of the new mezzanine, and have added a few additional supports to it \u2013 all purely decorative. \u00a0We are really pleased with how it is taking shape and, when it is finally stained, painted and refurnished we think it will look amazing.<\/p>\n The other major task we have undertaken involved more deconstruction before replacement which was the front door of Priory.<\/p>\n In our first year at Kergudon we replaced the door that was there and had become very rotten, with one that our builder manufactured for us.\u00a0 What we didn\u2019t do was replace the frame and threshold etc.\u00a0 As such, while it functioned, we have had a few problems with the door, including having to remove the tiles on the inside recently, and so we never felt it was the right first impression when entering the g\u00eete.<\/p>\n This work has given us the chance to rehang the door with a new frame, new exterior step and new threshold.\u00a0 Thankfully we have been able to reinstall the door before Storm Ciara arrived although we still need to render in certain areas and make good so the work isn\u2019t finished as yet, but already looks better with a lovely new slate step.<\/p>\n Over the weekend I have done some concreting.\u00a0 A small amount to level the step inside the front door which we will tile, and a larger area to increase the floor space of the kitchen generally.\u00a0 The reason for the latter is because we made a small error!\u00a0 When we were buying new electrical items for the kitchen, we saw an amazing fridge-freezer that was on such an incredible offer we had to have it.\u00a0 We knew that it was taller than the old fridge-freezer but we hadn\u2019t realised by how much.\u00a0 The only way we could stand it in the kitchen was to extend the area of floor under the stairs which is fairly advantageous anyway and will look great.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n