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Some severely damaged beams were replaced trying at the
same time to use the original ones whenever possible. Silicate
waste wool material was used to obtain better thermal/acoustic
insulation between floors. One of the bays of one of the existing
main walls was rebuilt using the same original building principle:
Gaiola pombalina. A Cruz de Santo André filled with lime
mortar stone. The new partition walls started then to be built
in wood as before. This option allowed us to recreate the floor
structure and then lay the wooden floors. With the structure well
secured it was possible to open the new bays on the façades
and to reinforce them.
New water, sewage, electricity and gas systems were installed.
The partition walls were lined with cartooned plaster plates,
but the plates used on the walls and ceilings of the bathroom
and kitchen were hydrophuge, lined with Viúva Lamego 10x10
azulejos.
The
WC's were equipped with Italian Luce ceramics and two white lacquered
counter cupboards that were also equipped with a white fake stone.
The kitchen cupboards are standard German GEBA of a colour between
grey and inox.
In order to maintain the original
building method the structure were the bathtub was laid was also
a wood structure. Avoiding, thus, using different materials and
avoiding the expansion variability in order to prevent future
pathologies.
The bedrooms' ceilings were lined
with normal cartooned plaster at the place where a polyester extruded
simple line cove was introduced. The living room and dining room
were lined with a fake ceiling with wooden casings.
The
remaining walls were scraped, and the roughcast and stucco redone.
Finally we started to paint the interior
walls. The colours chosen were dim white for the walls and egg-shell
white for the ceilings and doors. In the dining room one of the
walls was lined with birch wood panels to render it less monotonous
and warm a little bit the room. We kept the same interior doors
after adapting them to the new situation with the exception of
the two small stair landing doors that are new. The house is equipped
with a central heating Vulcano gas system for comfort.
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