South Brittany Holiday Cottage

We have had snow again here in Morbihan today. It has been snowing quite hard here at South Brittany Cottage all day. It started around 10.30 this morning and it is still going now 11.00pm albeit it has slowed up.

After the concrete hardened off we started looking at the joists and flooring of the upstairs in my parents gite or cottage. The floor needed to be completly replaced as it was just bits and pieces of chestnut laid down any old way. So we started to rip it up.We decided to leave a small section to work off and fit one of the velux windows to give us some light. So the next day we went about fitting the velux, which went in very easy. The refitting of the slates is a little tricky on my Parents gites as they have been laid on the angle to look like diamonds which means a lot more cutting and harder fitting the flashings (what seals the velux to the slates).We now need to decide what we are going to do with the joists

Well the concrete arrived and we had it pumped in to the cottage and me and my Dad spread it around and tamped it level. We also laid the floor in the small outbuilding, which I am going to have as a workshop. We need to start moving my tools out of the cottage that we are renovating so a workshop will be ideal.

We hope everyone reading this had a good new year. Not really had much to add to our Brittany gite weblog, hence the first entry for the year! Tomorrow we have concrete being delivered for the floor of my parents other cottage, It supposed to be arriving at 10.30am. Once the floor is down we need to start thinking of what we will be doing with the upstairs floor. The bookings for our gite have been coming in for the Summer, July and August is almost fully booked (Just the last week in August left).