Living room done.

Big Hammer came out and now we're down to earth and stone.  Two of the joists were fine, the other six were rotten.  There was a nice woolly covering of rot under all the parquet flooring as well.  This is what happens when there is the Holy Trinity of:

1. No ventilation.

2. No drainage.

3. Cement.

 

Amen.

Walls have been scrubbed with a wire brush and all the loose material (up to a point - I could keep going and end up outside!) swept up.  Then a borate solution has been sprayed over the walls and floor to kill and prevent more rot.  The dark patch is borate, not rot!

Here is some super-bonny stonework where all the rules have been cast aside and the mason has used magic to keep the wall from coming down:

Oh well, nothing a few wee stones and mortar won't cure.

Next up is the drains - I need to move the french drain I put in earlier this year as it's too far away from the house, and put some linear drains in across the frontback door (the back door we use as the front door, as opposed to the backfront door out front) and along the bathroom wall.  Onwards and upwards, people...