The exterior walls of the rooms are being given 120mm (5 inches) of insulating rockwool, which has heat and acoustic insulating properties. It should keep our bedroom cooler in summer, as well as retaining heat in winter. It's all being hidden behind a plasterboard wall on a metal frame. Of course it will reduce the size of the rooms - quite surprisingly so - but the house should be much more liveable.
The builders arrived on Monday last week and started immediately in the salon. I realised that if we wanted to have a stone wall in the salon I should remove the concrete before work progressed too far. This involved two evenings of bashing my thumb (and occasionally a cold chisel) with a hammer, the tidying away the rubble before the builders arrived next day. It was dirty and dusty work, but the end results should be worth it. It already looks a lot better, but now the stones and the gaps between them need cleaning with a wire brush.
By Friday most of the insulation and much of the plasterboard had been installed so it was time for Stan the electrician to do his first fit. Over the weekend I attacked the fireplace in the bedroom, then worked continued on the remainder of the walls and the ceilings.
By yesterday evening we had reached this stage: the walls and ceiling of the bedroom are 90% insulated and plastered (and the joints done) while the salon only awaits a ceiling. Then the electricity has to be finished, then sanding and painting the walls, sanding and varnishing the floor of the bedroom, scrubbing the tiles in the salon, and doing the pierre apparent - also in the salon.
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