The festive break is now truly over, the shortbread is finished and the cards are all taken down . I’ve left some twinkly lights up over one of the caravan windows because I feel that these dark days still need a bit of twinkle. It’s very cold here now, with icy days and occasional snow flurries over the hills.
For the last few days husband has been sorting things out in the house in preparation for the plasterer.
The plasterer was supposed to start yesterday with the strapping, the wooden batons that are tied to the stud walls to support the plasterboard, but he is ill and rightly being cautious is delaying until he is recovered. Covid days, eh. One of our many new challenges.
The house is filled to the rafters with bales of rockwool insulation and pallets of plasterboard and insulation board ready to be fitted. When you see it piled up like this it looks as if there is far too much to ever fit onto the walls.
I can’t wait for this next stage. Husband is ducting and wiring away in readiness for the MVHR and with him and the plasterers in the house at the same time it will feel like we’re about to take a leap forward in visible progress.
Internal walls! It doesn’t take much to make me happy. Here’s to lots of progress in 2022.
Ravencroft Skye 
You are making a lot of progress already.
It looks so cold there and yet work still continues, you are an inspiration indeed!
We have had a much cooler than usual year here in Australia (our part of it anyway), we haven’t gone over 35 C, which is almost unheard of in the last 15 years or so.
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I think that climate change is visibly affecting us all…😢
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I think you are right. The world is in flux.
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At least you’ve got your materials – we’ve been hearing so many supply shortage horror stories so I’m pleased you’ve got everything you need to keep going.
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It’s a constant struggle, to be honest. Supplier lead times are enormous and we’ve experienced huge price hikes as well as long delays. This is made even worse by the fact that many suppliers won’t deliver to Skye, despite the fact that it has a road bridge to the mainland, because it’s an “island”. We are getting there, but it’s tough at times
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Even with studwork up you can still see from one end of the building to the other so plasterboard will make a huge difference. Exciting progress!
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Thank you 🙏
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