The damage revealed! So anyone following the cottage blog will have noticed a slight pause. We generally hope to maintain roughly monthly updates but late 2016 was always going to be a bit hectic with the main house having a fair bit of work done on the kitchen. And then in September a guest mentioned there was a small drip from the ceiling in the cottage living room. It seems the wet-room design of the shower room was not working. Luckily our builder was around immediately and we patched things up.
Clearly a much fuller investigation was needed but we had pretty much nose-to-tail bookings through until late October when we were able to block out some weeks for whatever work was needed. We really didn't want to cancel anyone - that's the worst nightmare for us. In a further brief 2-day gap our builder did a more substantial patching job and with fingers crossed we got through to the following five weeks to the break.
Clearly a much fuller investigation was needed but we had pretty much nose-to-tail bookings through until late October when we were able to block out some weeks for whatever work was needed. We really didn't want to cancel anyone - that's the worst nightmare for us. In a further brief 2-day gap our builder did a more substantial patching job and with fingers crossed we got through to the following five weeks to the break.
... and fixed Then our lovely shower room floor had to be broken up, and we found that what must have been a tiny seeping leak for years, had slowly soften and swelled the board supporting the tiling, and as that happened more subtle cracks formed, ending up with the drain beginning to give a little and then the whole thing spiraled downwards fast. But at least we now knew about it and were able to fix it - this time choosing to move away from a wet-room approach and installing a more conventional low-profile shower tray, and therefore a shower curtain with quality stainless steel fittings.
The new setup was tested by the next guests, a lovely couple from Australia, and with their feedback we made a few tweaks to the shower curtain, and that has now been properly adapted by a local seamstress. Now all is good and Gorge View Cottage is back to perfect operation.
If you are reading this then just mabe you'll get a chance to try it this coming year.
The new setup was tested by the next guests, a lovely couple from Australia, and with their feedback we made a few tweaks to the shower curtain, and that has now been properly adapted by a local seamstress. Now all is good and Gorge View Cottage is back to perfect operation.
If you are reading this then just mabe you'll get a chance to try it this coming year.
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