"I went window shopping today! I bought four windows." Tommy Cooper

Having fitted the first new window on my previous visit, John made quick work of removing the second upstairs window.

BUT...taking off the lath and plaster revealed major rot in the roof timbers where it had been leaking for 20 odd years

 

The floorboards and joists hadn't escaped either.

 

 

So the offending timber was cut back to good wood, a replacement strut fitted and braced with a new section of 6x2.

 

 The rotten floorboards were cut out, damp rubble was scraped from the top of the wall and sound boards refitted. The joist will be repaired from below when the lath and plaster ceiling is taken down (I can't wait!)

 

 To complete the repair to the roof, new support struts were added and tied into the floor and to the replaced timber. The new window and sill were then fitted into position

 

 

 

I'll be treating all the timber, fitting the plasterbooard, framing and insulating the end wall and refitting the wainscotting next week.