Aberdour castle and welcome into restoration house

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Hello dear Steemians,


 



 

 

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It was a while since my last post, before heading to holiday I had 4 long shifts and of course after that there was no power and mood at all internet.

 

 



 

To start this post I wanted with a beautiful picture of Aberdour Castle that we visit on and off, it was built in the 1100s and located just a half an hour away from us. That is one of the oldest castle that is still in relatively well condition it is a nice little restaurant in it where you can have either cup of tea with scones or nice freshly cooked lunch. There are few people working there, they are all very friendly and love to chat. So being there it feels like we are in old time when people were so simple and helpful.

 



 

Nevertheless, it is not only a pleasure but work constantly going on in our house, it is old house and we feel it when we see like lately that the wall paper in dining at the window was wet. @myskye decided to remove wall paper at window sides, so we found that it was shutter made of wood but the whole wood was wet too.

 



 
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Taking it down we found the pipe for hot water and the pipe seems to be repaired in past but it was three materials used: stainless steel, cooper and lead. There was a hole with the water leak.

 



 
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So it was no other way as to remove lead as it is harmful for health and to replace it with stainless steel.

 



 
Finally it was dry

 


 
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But what to do with the window and wall….

 


 

While I was working @myskye was working hard to finish dining room disaster before departure, he bought separate planks of wood. Of course we would love to use oak but it is too expensive so we bought pine as normally it is light @myskye used wood varnish after three layers it looks nice and dark, fits to our table and piano.

That is final result.


 


 
It is beautiful and we can head off for holiday now.

 


 


 
Hope you like our upgrade and till the next week.

 


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Glad that wall worked out the way it did! Water damage can be troublesome, but it is certainly looking great now!

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Thank you @wwwiebe, I hate water damage. Recently due to a lot of rain we had leak from the roof too. but it is fix too.

그동안 소식없어 궁금했어요. 손수집 수리 하느라 바빴군요
멋지게 잘고쳤네요 두분의 솜씨 아주 훌륭해요

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You are right. It is the best moment to see the results. My husband has a really skilled hand.

(google-translator) 당신 말이 맞아요. 결과를 보는 것이 가장 좋은 순간입니다. 남편은 정말 숙련 된 손을 가지고 있습니다.

wow beautiful old Castle. it is looks beautiful in last photograph after fix everything. nice photograph...

Thank you @tussar11 for your nice comment, the Castle is really nice place that visit often. I am glad you like our upgraded dining room :)

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und das vorher nachher Bildchen.... absolut super Arbeit geleistet.... Handwerklich 1 a

The Aberdour Castle is really very beautiful still to look at @stef1 and I wish that I could visit it too :D
Your dining room is spectacular too with its view from the outside.