Month: June 2013 (Page 4 of 4)

…..and the footings dug.  We need the building inspector to give it the OK tomorrow and then the footings will be laid on Friday.  Work will then start early next week rebuilding it, but this time with a proper cavity wall and a concrete slab floor (rather than flagstones laid directly onto the earth below).  It will be great to start building things rather than just knocking them down!  I can’t wait.

Walls removed and the footings dug ready for the concrete on Friday.

The walls now have been completely removed and the footings dug. Once the wall has been built up to ground level, the soil and debris from the centre will be used to backfill the rest of the trench.

Oops! We need to get this replaced, but we will reattach the plate to the wall once re-built as a temporary measure. It used to be against the wall along the road.  When the wall was removed, so was this.

The stone from the outbuilding

Well, the weather has been fantastic and the builders have really made some progress taking the outbuilding down at the end of the building.  With any luck  the new footings and floor will be exacavated tomorrow.  Within a few days, the rebuilding of this outbuilding will start.  This will be a real turning point as we start to put the building back together.

It has only taken the builders two days to get this far in demolishing the outbuilding at the end of the property.

…to then be rebuilt.

Unfortunately, this is a single skin building with flagstones that are laid directly onto the soil.  As such, it is susceptible to damp and the only real solution is to take it down and rebuild it with a proper concrete floor and a cavity wall.  From the outside, it will look very similar to the building as it currently is, but it will be of a solid modern construction.  It will have been completely removed in the next two days.

At the end of day one, the roof has gone and the main roof timbers are exposed.  Work has already started on removing the stone work.  This is put onto pallets so they can be easily moved around the site.

This seems like a lot of trouble to go to for a quirky room on the end of the building, however, the 1788 map shows that this room was here back then.  So we would like to keep it in place. Longer term, it is going to be my office space.

The roof has been removed and the stones blocks are being removed one at a time.