Week 24 - Windows and plastering

We are once again in a period of rapid change.  since the last update the oak windows and cills have been installed, the plasters have all but completed the top floor with skim, the internal door frames have been fitted and the first of the aluminium windows have arrived.  The majority of the drainage is complete and we have started the reduced dig to take the biomass boiler slab.

Tom Dunnett mixing up before skimming

Windows from Terry Martin Joinery installed - ready for the cills

The trusty Polish Builder car to the rescue - Stirling board celotex sandwich on top

Jack putting in the fowl drains

Gary tidying up the window cills

bi-fold doors from Aspect Windows - one step closer to being water tight

The view across the yard from the hall - still looking like a building site

Mike Greerson adding the pipe bedding before backfill

Reduced dig in the long barn for the boiler room

Guest bedroom plaster boarded out ready for skimming

Our bedroom nearly ready for skimming

And the en-suite

Family bedrooms ready for boarding and sound proofing

Week 21- further work inside and out

Hello all,

Almost a month since our last post; where has the time gone?! Since the last post a lot of work has taken place inside the Mill as well as some works outside. We now have a water supply thanks to the installation of a borehole and the first lot of bespoke windows have arrived, but most importantly we can now go up and down between the floors via the temporary stairs which have been put in as the landings are now complete....exciting!

Graham the builder with the plasterboard

pipe work for heating, water etc 

pipe work goes in along the kitchen floor

plasterboard ready to go up in our bedroom

the borehole going in 

starting the drilling for the borehole

Electrician Henry Pring in the kitchen

the sewage treatment plant going in!



the digger starting work on the drainage at the back of the barns



the poop plant arriving- thanks WCI Ltd

Temporary stairs until the proper ones arrive!

                                        View up the stairs from hallway 

post sandblasting in the kitchen to clean the stone

7 bespoke windows for the gable end in the workshop

studwork in the kitchen finally completed and ready for insulation

Aquaboard going up in one of the bathrooms!

Week 17 - Roof Complete

Since the last post the project has come on leaps and bounds.  The roof is complete including the roof lantern above the stairwell.  Mark Bucknell from MJ roofing has done an awesome job and comes with our highest recommendation.

All the slate complete

From the field side

The roof lantern

Gary, Graham and Danny have put all the floors in, which has allowed for the internal studwork to be constructed.  We can now walk around the building and begin to imagine the spaces in more detail.

The stonemasons have been completing the last of the repairs to the existing structure, which has involved numerous helibars being inserted to stitch the walls back together. We have reinstated the windows in the front and back of the long barn which had previously been blocked up.  Steve has reused some of the vousoirs to create new arches which look great.

Pete and Barney have cracked on with pointing on the gable end overlooking the canal and are making good progress with getting this end water tight.

The plumbers from Simon Kittow have also arrived on site and have fitted the first fix for the bathrooms in the Mill.  We have also moved the bath up into our bathroom in order to get it's position exactly right before the pipework is installed.

In goes the bath

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The Farm looking great!!

We have spent our spare weekends insulating the walls with celotex.  This is easily the most horrible job on site and the builders were happy for us to crack on.  We were glad to get most of it finished over the bank holiday - just the roof to do now!!

Kitchen insulation complete

Spare bedroom and bathroom (incl first fix plumbing)

Top floor bedrooms and bathroom

Our bedroom and bathroom

The next few weeks will be pretty quiet as we enter the holiday season - not for us unfortunately!!

The next jobs will be to OSB board over the celotex to create the service void for the electrician Henry Pring to come in and install the first fix.

After that it we will be ready to plaster board which will release the plasterers before we get cracking with the underfloor heating.

The replacement windows have been ordered from Terry Martin Joinery, as soon as they are installed we will be able to wave goodbye to the scaffolding.

We will try and update more regularly!!

Cheers!!

Outside

Pumba - chillin'

Week 14

Since out last update the project has begun to resemble a home.  We have a roof on, the felting and battening is complete, half the roof lights have been installed and the slate is going on.

Battening complete

JCB to rescue lifting slate onto the scaffolding

Roof lights being installed

Half of one side complete

Tapco Slate

The slate we are using is an imitation slate made with slate dust and a composite plastic.  The benefits include the weight and speed of fixing as well as zero breakage during installation.

Internally we have been able to crack on with the structural studwork to begin constructing the floors.    The most exciting part of the internal work has been the construction of the fireplace in the sitting room.

Studwork in the kitchen

Fire place being constructed

Fire place nearly complete

Adrian and Steve constructing the fire place

Final stages

Externally there are a few remaining structural repairs which need to completed; repairs to vousoirs above a couple of windows, areas of stitching and the never ending raking out and re-pointing.

Bedroom floor joists

We have the floor in the bedroom and floor joists in to support the bedroom above the sitting room are almost complete.

The kitchen beginning to look little more like a room

The final survey for the windows has been completed and the central roof light should arrive in the next week or two.

Raking out and pointing

It was also great to see some friends on Easter Saturday, thank you to everyone who popped in to say hi.