Apart from gite changeover on Saturday I been resting and watching Formula 1, recuperating for this week. Today I've been jointing and taping the stairwell in the other gite. My friend Ian, who loves plastering, put the cream coloured enduit around the kitchen door surround. Caroline has been tiling one of the bathroom walls – I think she is getting a bit fed up of tiling – and the three of us have managed to knock a few of those niggling jobs off the list. You know, the one's that you can't face at the time and delay and delay.
Last thing tonight I went over the enduit with a wire brush to give it a rough, rustic, texture to make it look the same as the exterior enduit. When the macons applied the enduit on the outside they put in on quite thick (about 15mm ?) then left it to harden after a few hours then ran over the enduit with a 'nail board' to give it the rough texture. Ian and I just followed their example but I used a wire brush because it was a small fiddly area. I am extremely pleased with the finished result .
Shown in the photographs are the original doorway, the working in progress version after sandblasting and some plasterboard infill to square things up and cover some concrete and finally the finished result with the creme coloured render blended into the doorway. The remainder of the plasterboard will be painted an appropriate colour to pull the whole together.
