As the underfloor heating company are due to arrive to put down the pipes at the end of the month we need to get the floors finished one bit at a time! As well as the floors the window openings are also being created this month, these steels will hold up the walls whilst the lower parts of the walls are removed. Tony Blanchard is the skilled person doing this work and he has planned the task to the nth degree. It's all go here in Cornwall and its going to be a very full on few weeks!
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With skill and precision Nick yet again did an amazing job of opening up the back of the stable ready for the air source heat pump and french drain. We now have some very big mole hills in the garden! Next week we start to remodel the levels around the stable and Sunday school. Nick turned up with the Digger and Dumper..we couldn't resist a sit. Hmmm seems like someone had another sun loving sit.
Having got both Joe and Sarah to look for the bricks on line and with many emails flying around the west country reclaim yards, we final came up trumps with the exact bricks at just under £1.50 each in a place behind a truck depot outside of Exeter! We were close to the name it turns out to be Hexter Humphson & Co of Newton Abott in Devon. The factory closed long ago but thanks to Hitchens of Exter we now have 26 bricks ready to go in.
The slates are very heavy, the middle inside wall holds the roof and slates up using three purlins resting on the walls. I'm about to knock down these walls and so have removed the slates before removing the walls. We purchased a great tool called a slate ripper which worked so well that most of the slates came off clean, tidy and in one piece...well all but 26 or so.
Terry from Darlyford Quarry arrived with the granite for the patio doors today. They came from a block originally part of a gate post at Devon Port dockyard in Plymouth!
Any one got 30 of these in a dark cupboard?
We need some of these to finish the opening from the Sunday school to the new link. There is writing on them but its very hard to read so far II think it say Hester Henderson & Co but may be way off! Get looking folks. Sadly not coming out of a tap! We are not sure where it all comes from still so today we used pipes to divert the water from the down pipe. If that is where it comes from then we should see a reduction in the water entering under the wall. Well it made no difference really so it must be ground water off the road and fields. Only solution will be a land drain....Nick!
Now that we are starting to prepare for the work needed to get the stable floor done, I have removed the so called cobbles only to discover they were really just any old stones worn down in places by use. Beneath this layer was dry slate and clay soil. Digging it out is the next task to see if we need to underpin or not. It will depend on the floor levels matching up with those in the Chapel. So after its removed some DIY surveying skills are going to be required.
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