Month: May 2010
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My Old Kitchen Floor
What is now the kitchen in the barn was once a chicken shed, before that it housed larger animals in the two stalls. The floor was made up of mainly ridged black bricks with some cobbles around the edges. When the floor was ripped up to be replaced it was piled in the yeard where…
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Join between…
There are a number of places in the barn where the rough pointed internal wall joins up to a smooth plastered and painted wall or ceiling. This is one of problems that is common to conversion projects – where original materials or new materials added to replace or improve original features butt up against modern…
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Building Progress ~ April 2010
April was… I’ve not yet managed to wield my Fugenboy kit (‘a sealant joint tooling system that produces a professional finish with no tramlines’) to redo the sealant around the showers, but I have boxed-in the frame that the shower tray sits on with plywood ready for tiling and got on (a little bit) with…
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How much does a barn conversion cost? Part 1
A general question that’s long been asked and as yet never answered on My Barn Conversion was summed up by miss dee ennis back in 2006: I am thinking of buying a barn for myself … could [someone] give me a ballpark figure as to how much this is lik[e]ly to cost? miss dee ennis…