Outdoor Seating & Pointing
Outdoor Seating & Pointing
The rear seating area became a real family affair with Adam and Emily keen to help out with anything which required swinging a lump hammer, so with PPE and parental supervision, we slowly brought down the 2ft thick stone wall separating us from the outside world.
Rachel had her eyes on the stone roof slates, which were too big or misshapen to go back on the roof and wanted them used as flooring slabs. So, with ‘grown-up’ supervision from Donald, I re-built the stone retaining walls to a more reasonable 1-foot thickness to keep the animals out, and the children in. The biggest stones which came out (known as ‘throughs’ as they poke out ‘through’ both sides) went back in and became the retaining wall ‘toppers’. Gravel, damp membrane, sand and concrete set the level and T&G flooring, recovered from the interior has been earmarked to cover the roof timbers above.
The walls will all need picking out before we can point them but even before the slates go down it’s looking like a far more useful, bright and open space and the view is fantastic.
I’m back at work so I leave Donald to sort the slate floor out and when I arrive the following weekend, it’s worked out beautifully. The walls are just the right height to act as seating, table, drinks holder and a retaining wall all-in-one but it makes for a really attractive use of the space.
Once it gets pointed up, I can see us spending a LOT of time out here.