The main focus again was to crack on with the wall paper stripping and with most of the walls clear, I was left to tackle the ceiling. It's painful work but rewarding once it's all bare and ready and waiting to be made beautiful! By the end of tomorrow we will have two bare rooms!
The only other job we attempted (OK, it was all me I just couldn't resist!) was to take some more bricks out of the fireplace. The first bricks to come out were the ones in the small central fireplace. These came out very easily (but it was to be expected as they were only held in with expanding foam!) Removing them exposed a rather cute looking but traditional fire back which looked in good enough condition to be used. If we weren't set on having a wood burner I'd have been tempted to keep it!
I then started to remove some of the bricks just below the lintel to see what was behind. Again they came out easily but it was a little disappointing to see it built up behind with bricks. I'll take the rest out tomorrow and get a good look at what we're dealing with...
There were only two real breaks in the work today: the first was when the gas man arrived to give us a quote for central heating; It was a mildly pleasant surprise, but like everything else was still a lot of money... The second was a visit from our through-the-wall neighbour. Again lovely people making us happy about where we've chosen to settle down.
I feel we've done enough paper stripping for now, I sense some demolition coming on soon! Lets see what tomorrow brings!
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