Stripping wall paper

 The dog leg of the hall showing a nice piece of Victorian plasterers work.

 1970's wallpaper, a few people have said they would like this wallpaper today.

 The distemper paint from early in the house's history. Distemper = paint made of chalk and glue made from Rabbit skins :-/

 Steaming off all the old paper.

 All done we can see what condition the original plaster work is in.

 The coving and arch work feature are lovely.

 Below - The old distemper finish can be removed by steaming. We are waiting for Maggie's brother in law Dave who is a painter and decorator of much note to advise what is best to do.

Concrete set and level

 We were really impressed with the levelness of the floor

 My room really clear and tidy :)

 A sample tile sits flush with the super level surface.

 Maggie's room is a little cluttered :)

 Below is the wall of engineering bricks we built to support the staircase. Originally it was resting on ash and slag. The wall was built on a extra wide DPM on a 12 inch deep footing of concrete. Now encapsulated in 114mm of concrete.

Concrete Day !

Laser Leveling and concrete membrane

 A second DPM goes down on top of the 100mm insulation extensively to hold the Free flowing self leveling self compacting concrete in place

 Laser level used to determin the average depth of concrete ,110mm in this case.

 Almost ready for 6 cubic meters of concrete ...gulp !

Insulation spacer tucked behind the first DPM.