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First floor walls(26Feb09)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Now that the ring beam is in place the block laying has continued. There is still a section of ring beam to do on the gable of the cottage – as usual there is a problem with the strength of the existing wall which needs rectifiying.

: I can see now why they needed to fit the floor first!

: looking from the kitchen into the dining room

: Looking from the dining room into the kitchen

: Inside the barn looks a lot bigger now.

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Bedroom Views(24Feb09)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Just?á thought it would be cool to see what the view is like from upstairs.

: Master bedroom

: Josh’s bedroom

: Bex Bedroom

: View of the garden (to be!)

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Ring Beam(24Feb09)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

And here’s the ring beam with the shuttering removed

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Ring Beam(23Feb09)

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Steel reinforced concrete has now been poored to form the ring beam around the Old walls – this should make it possible to build up and fix the timber for the roof.

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First Floor and Ring beam(19Feb09)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

: Preparation for the ring beam

: I was amazed to see the ply floor going down before the roof is on, but I suppose the builders need a platform to work on……….

: ….I hope the floor survives after being exposed to the elements………

: The ply has already delaminated in a couple of places – I suppose that will be easy to repair when it’s dried out?

: View from the road above

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First Floor Joists(17Feb09)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

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: I’ts great to see the stone without scafolding in front

: And the cills make a huge difference

: The old wall looks better now it’s cleaned up a little.

: It’s the first floor!!!!

: Here’s our dilema – I want to clean this stone up and keep the old wall inside the new building – just to be different.

: Here’s the other side….

: And we need to cut a doorway here.

: The barn itself will look fine whatever we do and we wouldn’t gain much space by removing the wall.

: This will be seen from the living room/hall but sand blasted and possibly varnished – suggestions on a post card….

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Birds eye view (06Feb09)

Friday, February 6th, 2009

?áDecided the view from the scafolding would make great photo’s?á

: This is the cloakroom/porch from the inside

: looks better from this angle

: And the replacement wall is almost clad

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More Snow (03Feb09)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

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Its all?áslowed down?áagain due to the weather, but here’s the progress since our last visit.

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: She’ll pay for that one…………

: Now if only I had a snowball…..

: The Kitchen looks good – glad we decided on the internal window.

: Becky’s looking for trouble again…..

: Think we might need to buy a 4×4 when we move up here!

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