{"id":6617,"date":"2022-01-23T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2022-01-23T18:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:12:52","slug":"saturday-23-january-rendered-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/saturday-23-january-rendered-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 23 January \u2013 Rendered Useless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week\u2019s blog<\/a> stated that we had started the year\u2019s major project which is a refurbishment of our family g\u00eete, Gite Granary<\/a>.\u00a0 It said that the risk of projects like these was that they were prone to mission creep as you discover additional problems when you rip out kitchens and bathrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One we discovered 2 weeks ago having taken the bathroom ceiling down. These were some rotten floorboards in the ensuite above which had been caused by a historic leak.\u00a0 I mentioned that there was a risk we would find others, and we feared that there was one fairly large issue we would uncover.\u00a0 Our fears have been realised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our initial revamp in 2015, we saw that the render on the internal walls of the ground floor had had a number of patch repairs and, when tapping on them, there was a very hollow sound suggesting that the render was not well attached to the wall.  In 2015 we didn\u2019t have the time to resolve this and hoped that no one would knock the render too hard and cause it to come off!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I had the opportunity to inspect further this week it became clear that all of the render had to come off \u2013 as it was about to fall off anyway!\u00a0 With very little persuasion the render came away from the wall in sheets which at least made the job fairly simple.\u00a0 It was clear that, whenever the render was applied it had been put on over a previous coat of thin plaster-like material.\u00a0 Most of this had come away from the wall as well and, where it hadn\u2019t, the render had not adhered well to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n