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For Sale

Carrick - The Blue House Posted on 16/01/2021 by Jonathan and Denise16/01/2021  

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Carrick – The Blue House will is to be offered For Sale. We’re working the preliminaries.

The house and garden are part of our croft – officially 11 Bun-a-Mhuillin, Eriskay, but for us it’s been The Big Garden Croft – when posting on our personal blog The Big Garden & Croft. There, you’ll find maps, detailed information, and lots of photos.

Carrick Eriskay and croft, seen from Field 4
Carrick Eriskay and croft, seen from Field 4

For more information about the sale of the property, you should contact the agents, as follows :
Joanne Stennett – Associate, Bell & Ingram – +44 7917 192969 – joanne.stennett@bellingram.co.uk

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Ridges and Hips

Carrick - The Blue House Posted on 07/12/2020 by Jonathan and Denise06/12/2020  
Winter Sunrise, Carrick Eriskay and Beinn Sgiathan
Winter Sunrise, Carrick Eriskay and Beinn Sgiathan

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Post-Coronavirus Offers

Carrick - The Blue House Posted on 22/06/2020 by Jonathan and Denise05/10/2020

Post-Coronavirus Offers

We previously promised that, as soon as the coronavirus epidemic had peaked, and restrictions on movement began to be relaxed, we’d post here a variety of very special special offers.

Well, we hope we’re as good as our word ; but we’ll let you be the judge of that.

Here’s our current offers for Carrick for Autumn 2020. It’s a start …

One more thing : We’ve updated, with the latest developments our Coronavirus & Hygiene page ⇒

 

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East Wing Repaint

Carrick - The Blue House Posted on 29/05/2020 by Jonathan and Denise30/05/2020

Carrick Eriskay : Painting the East Wing : First around windows and doors and thin areas
Carrick Eriskay : Painting the East Wing : First around windows and doors and thin areas
Carrick Eriskay : Painting the East Wing : Last - remove the downpipes and paint the boards behind them
Carrick Eriskay : Painting the East Wing : Last – remove the downpipes and paint the boards behind them

The iconic blue paint on the larch cladding is nearly 12 years old and still looking good – from a distance, at least.  It doesn’t flake, but wears away – and fades – slowly, with areas with less thickness (or taking more of a battering from the weather) looking thin first.  It’s a very, very expensive paint (strictly, an opaque micro-porous wood stain) from Finland  – where they know a thing or two about wooden houses.  Being an eco-friendly paint, it’s water-based, and requires reliably dry conditions : we don’t get those until the letting season underway, making it difficult to schedule.

Funnily enough (well, not funny at all), the Coronavirus shut-down in April and May has provided us with the perfect conditions to get both the East Wing and Cross-Wing done : both the light blue vertical boards and the dark blue eaves.  We had just enough paint still in stock – left over from the original painting, in fact – to complete this work ; which is a relief, because, with no income coming in, it would have been difficult to justify spending £300 plus perhaps £15-£20 p+p for a 10 litre tin!

We painted the West Wing three years ago – it’s more exposed and deteriorates quicker.  In future, however, we want to have to paint only a small section of the whole house in any one year, so we will paint one ‘section’ (defined by corners) each year – which will be easier to fit in where there’s an odd day vacant between lettings in spring or summer.

 

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Forkbeard on the Causeway

Carrick - The Blue House Posted on 12/03/2020 by Jonathan and Denise12/03/2020

Lesser Forkbeard or Tadpole Fish [Raniceps raninus]. Found on the Eriskay Causeway after a storm

Lesser Forkbeard or Tadpole Fish [Raniceps raninus]. Found on the Eriskay Causeway after a storm

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Home Hotline ?

Carrick - The Blue House Posted on 19/12/2019 by Jonathan and Denise25/12/2019

Three years ago we had a fibre-optic broadband/phone line installed at Carrick, allowing us to offer guests free unlimited access to  high-speed internet, but also free calls to UK landlines.  Guests making the most use of the phone are those who need to keep in touch with close family – a Home Hotline, as it were, or thier own small business.  Mobile networks here are patchy, so the landline provides guests with assurance that they will not find themselves cut off from the outside world!

Now we’re able to lift two key limitations on that service. First and foremost, calls to UK mobile phones are free – just the same as to UK landlines.  Secondly the 1-hour limit is gone : no longer is it necessary to keep an eye on the time, and that’s for calls to both landlines and mobiles.

And if you need to call international numbers, we can – on request – enable that for you , and you’ll pay for calls just what they have cost us – as you will see from the call log from our phone account.

This upgrade is not just about a home hotline for emergencies, but providing the peace of mind of a home-from-home.

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