Sunday 17 February 2013

No Roof....

The House is exposed...the walls are open to the elements and we are expecting our first baby. Things have just become a little more complicated. The walls are a mess and each gable needs rebuilding. The evidence of woodworm is much greater than we had anticipated now also...We have little choice but to keep stripping back, further and further...when will we be on the way up because at this point we are on a steady slope down down down.....


We recycled the oak beams from the old A-frame in the roof...they will be used as lintels because almost all the ones above each door or window in the house needs replacing. Ian will have to take down many walls and then rebuild them again once the lintels are in place. Using lime mortar.
The little sitting room we spent ages clearing out when we first arrived.

It was traditional to put things into the walls in these old houses. We have found many shoes and bottles and bags and widdled bits of wood.

Some bones and quils found in the wall.


If you look closely you can see the date 1766.
Some hairpins with red hair wrapped around them found above the chimney in the kitchen.
There was a pouch of ashes also.


 


You can see the new wall plate here that was put in to support the new roof.

Were a piece of the old A-frame will be recyled to make a new lintel.

You can see how the house was constructed here. A maze of stone.

Some of the wood removed from above the window.

The new lintel going in





Old telegraph pools have been recycled into support beams here and will also be used in the roof.






 
It was around this stage that we realised we were gonna need some additional help.
So we got online and discovered Workaway.
We had some people lined up to arrive in April 2009, nearly 2yrs after we had bought the house and up until this stage Ian, myself and a few others had done all the work.

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