We have a couple of chimneys on the side of the house, one to a fireplace in the living room that needs to be opened up, and another to an old wood stove we took out of our dining area:

It’s obviously a wreck at the moment but we’ll get there! The red bag is catching water that’s been coming down the chimney and we’re going to knock a hole in the exterior wall and add a door with the future plan of adding a small conservatory on the outside of the house.

The dining room is small and so dark and dismal and we have no door out that side to the back field so we’re quite keen to brighten up the whole space. But first, the chimney had to come down! We found a company that would also install a warm roof over K’s room and the upstairs bathroom at the same time so we booked them in and they got to work… in extremely rainy and gusty conditions (see first pic) 😅

But they got there in the end… It was a bit of a harrowing and noisy couple of weeks and the day it was literally raining in K’s room because the lads didn’t know we didn’t have a ceiling up was.. not great. But it’s done now and we can crack on with other things.

Now we need to figure out how to put a door in the wall! #neverending

Some extra pics below of the job in progress.. not the best photos of the roof but hey, it’s a roof 💁‍♂️