To start with—three chimneys will disappear.

Guy who will do this saw the half door with stained/leadlight insert and was gobsmacked. I had bought this from a fave store on the South Coast of Adelaide for $250 and it survived the move to Tassie no probs.

We will remove the stained glass from the rest of the half door and put it in my front door—this faces a little bit west of north so lots of sunlight on the glass.

Be terrific!

None of the chimneys are used—heating is from the honking big Saxon woodburner that has its own flue. Removing the chimney (common flue with the flue from the lounge fireplace insert) from the bedroom will remove the problem of the chimney and wall moving apart, removing the chimney from the lounge will free up a LOT of floorspace! In the kitchen, removing the chimney and the cupboard built onto it will let me —finally— put in a decent workbench with shelving and my spice rack above it.

Need to design a new kitchen with new oven and cooktop plus lots shelf space incl rack to hold my big pans: 5L, 8L, 11L and 15L.

Other work will give me a spacious dining room and a decent bathroom with bath, shower, vanity and WC. Don’t like having the WC in the bathroom but too bad, that is where it will have to go.

The bathroom means I lose my side door so one of the windows in the kitchen will become the backdoor—will need two steps down so some decking and a door into the front of the detached rumpus room will give me a sunny spot sheltered from wind to enjoy some outside air.

That is a half door—its twin likely got slammed and the glass broke. I will have a door closer fitted and install a buffer to prevent the door slamming or crashing into the wall.

Nice feature, eh?

The three circles are bull’s eye—where molten glass was poured into a tray to form sheet glass and some sort of stirrer was used to distribute the glass. Left a peak of glass. Unfortunately—the peaks have been destroyed over time, the glass is quite old, over 100 years I would say.

I think I took the guy by surprise. I would have paid whatever he wanted.

REALLY comes into its own when the sun shines on the front of the house midmorning to mid afternoon.

Think I will get the guys to make a new door with that stained glass and then if I have to leave here I can take that with me.

When I came back from town I could walk from the right hand bedroom into the lounge without using a single door—the fireplace and shared chimney were ALL gone.

Just as well I stopped using the chimney insert—timbers around that chimney just above the ceiling showed scorch marks!

Talking to the bloke doing the work right now, lots of conservatories here did not turn out well—just too hot in summer!

“Tassie has a climate like England” well pig’s arse to that! Let us look at some facts.

Latitude of Hobart: about 43°S

Latitude of London, England: about 52°N


So Tassie is much warmer than England.

A place in Australia with horrendous temperatures is Melbum:

Max Temp:

Melbum: Hottest temperature: 46.4 °C (115.5 °F), 7 February 2009
 Hobart: Hottest temperature:  41.8 °C (115.5 °F), 7 February 2009

Melbum: Lowest temperature: 6.5 - 14.2°C
 Hobart:  Lowest temperature: 5 - 12.3°C


I do not live in or near Hobart.

Going to ring some building designers tomorrow—get a decent architectural plan drawn of the house as it is, maybe draw how the dining room and bathroom will fit. Any comments about structural issues be welcome.

Talk about the detached rumpus room and what needs to be done to make it suitable to be rented out for permanent residence. What costs, what income.

Wow!

Local plumber pulled up to get some of his stuff out of my garage. Asked him best option for getting rid of the superabundant calcium out of the water.

He will GIVE me a reverse-osmosis system that is attached to his house which he is selling. Installation cost will just be use of my garage for storage.

NEAT eh?

Jovial Monk wrote on May 20^th, 2024 at 9:16am:



Good idea to use a plant trolley.
I also use a plastic pot inside a terracotta one
The terracotta dries plants out too much but looks nice

Plants are generally ok with cooler temps