Chris's Peak District Cottages maintenance blog
Posted in peak district cottages on Jul 2nd, 2010
Although I haven’t posted for a few months we have not been sitting back idle at our peak district cottages. The site has been cleared from the winter storms, snow and general mess left over from winter. The log shed has been repaired and all the logs split and stacked for winter. Grass cutting started [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Mar 17th, 2010
Shirely is away at her sisters at the moment so I am in charge of our peak district cottages. So along with looking after the dogs, doing the washing, answering the phone and seeing guests, I have been trying to get some of the outside jobs done. We have managed to put a new door [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Mar 14th, 2010
As Shirley, myself and our handyman have all been off colour all week, very little has got done at our peak district cottages. Hopefully next week will be more productive. All the benches and garden furniture need cleaning and repainting ready for Easter along with all the other jobs that have been put off [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Mar 9th, 2010
Its been one of those odd job weeks here at our peak district cottages. There are a whole host of things that we need to get on with outside but it is still too cold. Lots of the mortar on paving stones has gone over the winter but we can’t repair it until the frost [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Feb 26th, 2010
It looks as though we are going to have to put a new roof on the log store at our peak district cottages. I had wondered, for a while, why some of the logs were getting wet. I had assumed that it was rain driving in between the sides and the top of the roof [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Feb 23rd, 2010
We are nearly finished with updating Honeysuckle Cottage’s Shower/Toilet – one of our peak district cottages. The Shower, toilet and washbasin where updated last year but we never got round to boxing all the pipes and renewing the flooring. Shirley has been nagging me for months to get it finished, so over the last [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Feb 18th, 2010
Not a good few days.
Its snowing ‘again’ so it was out to clear the drive to our Peak district cottages this morning (before breakfast). At least it seems to have nearly gone already.
The log burning stove in Shippon is still giving us problems. Although hopefully I have now got to the bottom of the problem [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Feb 12th, 2010
Monday morning saw us start work on the last part of the Dry lining of Derwent Cottage. As the walls are nice and ’straight’ we used the 1″ insulated foam plaster board. We can usually get this up and finished in under three days. This time it was so straight forward (and we have done [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Feb 5th, 2010
Just after our guests had departed Shirley asked me to take a look at the log burning stove in Sheepfold peak district cottage. I immediately realised something was not as it should have been. There was some discoloration on the wall and a few pieces of plaster around the flue access had come away. On [...]
Posted in peak district cottages on Feb 4th, 2010
When we inspected Magpie peak district cottages a few months ago we decided that the revealed beams in the ceiling could do with filling between the ceiling and the beam. We felt drafts may have been coming in from the roof space. We therefore decided to fill the gaps. When we looked at this more [...]
We moved to the Peak District in 2003. We now run eight Peak District Cottages just outside Bakewell overlooking Lathkill Dale. The self catering cottages are converted from the original farm buildings and are formed into a courtyard.
