Monsieur G (who is in charge of the major structural stuff) said the mud torchis in the lounge colombage was not salvageable and we agreed it would come out to be replaced with horizontal flat bricks and render.
I popped up to the house last week to check on progress to find the mud had all been removed leaving just the vertical beams. The builders had a light shining behind the beams casting interesting shadows and suddenly it seemed a shame to fill them all in again.
So we had a site meeting yesterday and we've agreed the beams will be left open, the corridor behind the wall will be plastered and will have a ceiling (at the moment it's open up to the roof tiles). We'll install a door from the gite into the corridor to help keep down the draughts behind the open colombage.
The big stones are now in place under the wooden beams and we'll have stone steps coming down into the lounge from the gite/entrance hall.
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