Skiing time!
Well if these temperatures keep up (or down) then we may as well go skiing instead of worrying about making stone fireplaces! Our stone is stock is looking more like an Iceberg every day, as the snow freezes over it. We had minus 8 again this morning and the heating has packed up in the office. So….. think of us while we’re drawing up more stone staircase plans with icicles hanging off the windows!
Actually, I suppose we could start doing a bit of ice carving to keep in practice, but an ice fireplace is probably not a winner is it?
We have just fitted a fantastic stone fireplace in a house in Surrey. It is in a beautifull Elizabethan house that has been restored, and our fireplace has gone into a wing that was semi demolished due to fire damage in the fifties. The owner has now found some original drawings of the house as it was in the early 1800s and it has another wing in which they want to put a sweeping stone staircase. (apparently they have what seems to be a picture of an original one in the house) The owner is having talks with the council, and they seem very keen on the restoration project, and we would love to make the stone stairs as they are a stunning design.
Oh well, fingers crossed