Sunday, March 29, 2020

Job done!

One of the last shutterless pictures of the house taken last Thursday afternoon during an allowed daily taking of exercise walk, we'd just finished the final coat of all 10 shutters, all were looking very much better and ready for putting back up. 
And by Friday lunchtime here they are, back in place, the last time we refurbed the shutters was 8 years ago, they'll be good for another 8 now!!
Time to move on to the next project now.

Monday, March 23, 2020

Time on our hands!

These are certainly strange times all over the world, here in our part of France, as in the rest of the country, we are under orders to stay at home at all times except for trips out for food shopping or medical reasons. So we now have plenty of time for the work on the premises, first up this week, refurbish the shutters on the front of the house.
A total of 10 in total, all of which have now been stripped of loose paint, filler applied if needed to only a couple of small patches of over weathered wood and then sanded in preparation for undercoat and top coat, all of which should be done by the end of this week. As you can see below, the house really doesn't look right without them!
To all our blog followers, we wish you the best of health in the coming weeks and months and hope that this dreadful time comes to an end as soon as possible for everyone, look after yourselves and stay safe.