Building Progress ~ November 2007, week 1 and 2
Let the games begin.
The first phase of building involves excavation of the exterior ground levels all around the building to provide drainage trenches and ensure that exterior floor levels are below the eventual interior floor level.
Internally, the existing flag stone, cobble and concrete floors have been removed and dug out down to the level necessary for the installation of the new floor.
Hardcore has been placed in the main barn and compacted as the beginnings of the new floor.
The wooden first floor in the kitchen end of the barn has been removed.
Trenches have been cut along the back of the building and across the yard, complete with pipework to carry waste to the green clean-water sewage system (of which more shortly) that has been installed in the nearby field.
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Lucious Lime on April 29th, 2007
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Building Progress ~ February 2008, week 3 on February 28th, 2008
Things are moving along at a pace now as the first floor is in and the upstairs partitions are about to go in.
Building Progress ~ December 2007, week 3 and 4 on December 31st, 2007
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Obviously with nasty old Christmas getting in the way (!) progress has slowed a little, but not to the extent I would have expected.
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November 25th, 2007 at 11:07 am
What an interesting blog! Where are you located? It looks like many of the barns you see where I live in Belgium.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Glad you like it ses5909…
The barn is in South Wales in the UK. It’s on a farm that was once part of a large estate so it’s hardly typical of the area. Interesting that it looks Belgian!