The week started with the completion of the battening that was required to support the plasterboard. And here’s a fun fact; take a guess at the approximate length of wooden components (rafters, joists, purlins, battens etc.) that has gone into this project so far (answer below*). But once that was done, the next job was …
It’s been all go this week, mostly inside, but at least the accessible toilet now has some plumbing and a soil stack! In fact, the first fix plumbing has been completed and pressure tested, and the electricity cabling is in and ready. But most effort has been concentrated on the roof. Now that the first …
Week 13: there’s an awful lot of wood in that roof! Read More »
Now that the building is nearly water-tight, work has begun inside. First to go in was insulation to the roof. Ultimately there will be two layers totalling 175 mm thickness and the pictures below show how much of the stuff there is! At the same time the “First Fix” internal works have started, with the …
Following installation of the ridge tiles, the main roof construction is now complete, leaving only the join between the new and the old rooflines, and the guttering and downpipes to be added. We made a deliberate decision to retain the open internal roof structure and photos show the imposing wooden beams. Insulation and plasterboard is …
With the basic roof timbers now in place, four more courses of brickwork have been added to the walls to bring them up to the underside of the woodwork, and the gable at the Church Street end of the building has been constructed in blockwork. These blocks will be rendered and a half-timbered gable end …
Another week of good weather, and by the end of Monday the major roof trusses were in place. But that evening, a neighbour – to whom we are very grateful – interrupted the theft of some lengths of timber from the site. Even though the culprits fled, on Tuesday morning Conrad realised that several of …
Week 9: a bit of a rollercoaster, but with a happy ending Read More »
What with Bank Holiday Monday and further delays sorting out the roof, it’s been a disappointing week. However the roof timbers finally arrived on Friday and Conrad and his colleagues have been able to get started again. We were also fortunate that the weather got a bit better towards the end of the week. With …
Week 8: a slow start, but things have just started again! Read More »
Not so much to report this week. The weather has been kind and the walls – both external and internal – have been finished as far as possible. The wooden top plates on top of the walls are in place, the tiles are ready and waiting on the scaffolding but – we don’t yet have …
The weather has been kind again this week and we are now at the point where the entire scaffolding is up, lintels have been installed and both the brick and interior block walls are finished up to roof height. In addition, the internal block walls have been completed. We have decided to reinstate the original …
Maybe we were too ambitious last week, with the weather deteriorating and strong winds on the way…… On Sunday we were dismayed to discover that the winds had blown down two of the sections of the new eastern wall. We shouldn’t have been too surprised because they were unsupported sections, but it was still a …
Week 5: A temporary setback – followed by further great progress Read More »