Week 5 Progress Update

As we enter week five we are feeling positive that things are heading in the right direction.  Since our last update work has moved on as pace, the following has been completed:

• All new internal and external block walls in the long barn complete.
• Floor joists for bedrooms in the long barn complete.
• Oak Lintels installed above door way from dining room to what will be the family room in phase 2
• Lintels inserted above hall window as existing arch had collapsed.
• Doorway from hallway to garden inserted.
• Final ivy removed from the wheel pit in preparation for external scaffolding.
• Remaining elm beam in the long barn moved up

Carrying the ivy out by hand

Dad on the hand saw cutting through the last of the ivy

View from the bottom of the wheel pit up the gable

Mum giving Dad directions from afar

The one existing beam in the long barn is moved up - this will not be used structurally but we felt it would be be a shame to remove the last of the elm beams

Floor joists in the long barn

Downstairs bedroom in the long barn - Scissor cross bracing between joists will reduce reduce movement and noise when people move about on floor above

Inserting the second of the 2 oak lintels

The view from the courtyard through the dining room into the garden

The new oak lintel in the dining room