Prettying up the garden walkway

Kitchen wall minus the screed render and most of the pointing that needs redo-ing

During the endless refurbishment, the space running between the kitchen and the wall to the neighbour’s place and that leads to the garden has suffered immense indignity. Most of the lumber and tile cutting was done there and don’t even get me started on the window replacement.

Previous owner spread render unevenly over portions of the cap stones; we set out to correct this while leaving the brick portion covered.

But, spring arrived and I couldn’t put off repointing the kitchen wall, finishing removal of the render on it, and evening up the render on the neighbours’ wall, then finally covering it with waterproof — but breathable — paint.

It got worse before it got better:

The paint went on both easier and with more trouble than anticipated (including a rain delay and difficulty covering the mortar lines).

Now, to attack the garden….