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Diary of an Irish Stone Cottage Renovation
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Spending a week in one leaves you with amazing memories and perhaps a dream to retire and renovate one to live in. But what is really involved? How much can you modernize an old Irish cottage without robbing it of its charm? Which details are critical and what exactly gives it its unique character? Traditional Irish cottages are small.
They usually consist of one main room that serves as kitchen and living room and two bedrooms. Sometimes the entire ground floor is the one main room, and the two bedrooms are upstairs. Cottage walls are thick, perhaps two or three feet thick, which gives the home nice deep window sills.
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The exterior is traditionally white, and the door and window sills can be a deep or bright color such as green, blue or red. But perhaps the most distinctive aspect of a traditional Irish cottage is the thatched roof. A thatched roof can incorporate different designs to make it stand out. But thatching is more than just postcard pretty. These would be trenches dug two feet below floor level, and the same from the walls under the line of the thatch.
At the same time, we would scrape and level around the garden, add an inspection hatch to the sewer then, later on, top out with decorative pebble paths around the house. An essential piece of work but surprisingly little trouble or cost in the overall scheme of things.
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The excavation was revealing. We knew the plot was well drained on the surface but it was a surprise to dig into completely dry soil at the rear of the house and in damp weather. There were no damp signs around the old walls of the cottage but we unearthed trouble with the more recent block gable wall. Excavating here revealed the poor construction, with earth banked above floor level and no rendering on the lower block work.
This explained where the damp was coming from. We scraped back the worst of the concrete render here, levelled and sloped the ground around the drain trench, leaving the wall render for the next job. Posted by Cottier at Saturday, August 27, Reactions: Monday, 18 July Decisions, decisions.
Posted by Cottier at Monday, July 18, Reactions: To thatch or not to thatch.
Diary of an Irish Stone Cottage Renovation
There's no denying the character of a thatched roof and it's part of a tradition that needs to be preserved, but thatched roofs worry a lot of people including surveyors and insurers. We struck lucky finding the right person on the back of a casual enquiry. Thatching materials and techniques vary and there is no one way doing it.
Our roof had been laid with reed over a galvanised iron roof, tied to a lattice of metal wires the alternative would have been wooden batons fixed on the iron.
It's a risk that many people take to save on running costs. Either way, fire is something to take seriously. Sunday, 8 May Clearing up. It's fair to say that there hadn't been much maintenance done for a few years. Most of the plot was waist high in brambles, over a mix of rocks, building rubble, old fridges, paint pots, rusty bikes, buckets, plastic sheeting, and assorted junk. S o, the first job on the list was a good tidy up. A couple of days hard work and a two-stroke brush cutter helped to locate the water and drainage lines and make more space for ourselves.
A JCB and trailer was needed to remove and level the rubble pile.