No Stalling
The old cow or chicken shed that is to be our new kitchen was furnished with three wood framed loose-boxes. They made it difficult to gauge the levels of light that we’d enjoy in that the darkest, north facing part of the barn and still retained the sweet odour of chickens, the most recent inhabitants. Today, crow bar in hand and father in assistance they came out. Thankfully it was a pretty straight-forward job as they been built very well and whilst solid, were not held in place by an excess of nails, screws and assorted fixings (which may have been used if installed by the same people who removed them!).
It’s certainly nice to get a feel for the space and light and as a bonus, the Old Man Steptoe in me managed to come away with some fine examples of timber salvage. A rather nice geometrically topped post from a school, chapel or similar and some fine old & no-so-old oak beams that we can recycle in cladding the currently open-sided ‘garage’.
Next stop in my trail of destruction the floors….
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Building Progress ~ March 2008, week 1 & 2 on March 16th, 2008
We've now arrived at the stage where I need to get start getting services installed into the fabric of the building - first fix electrics and plumbing.
Design Patterns ~ my choices on November 29th, 2007
I’ve already written about one of my favourite building design books – ‘.
Pointing (is rude?) on April 26th, 2007
I'm going on a course tomorrow to learn the basics of using lime, with a view to working on the pointing of the stonework at the barn myself.
Rock ‘n’ Roll ... take 2 on July 26th, 2007
From the back of the barn, along one side of the 'garden' (the enclosed area to the back of the barn) runs a mortared stone built wall.
Building Progress ~ January 2008, week 1, 2 and 3 on January 23rd, 2008
Progress has really slowed as my builder is away on holiday and left his boys finishing off another job at the start of the month.
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