Scullery Conversion. Weeks Twelve and Christmas

 

The weather has continued to inhibit any steady progress and Terry and others have had to do battle with pouring rain and freezing cold, all of which have made bricklaying near impossible.   Finally a small window in Christmas week with some sunshine and warmth and the walls are starting to appear!

Happy Christmas.

Scullery Conversion. Weeks Seven and Eight

The past two weeks have seen the UK lashed by ferocious gales, heavy rain and severe flooding causing chaos to many parts of the country........including the Trewby's battle with what seemed like the entire leaf fall from the Chestnut tree at the top of Village Street clogging up the drains, allowing water to pour into their cellar at 11.30 pm!

Throughout all this, the stalwarts from Moulds, namely Terry and Mick (the digger, re-named The Mole), joined by Mick No.2 have donned their waterproofs and got stuck in. What better week to take the roof off I ask (a rare glimpse of sunshine in the photo is not representative of what they endured)!

At last a glimmer of hope in the weather appeared and the watery sun made an appearance as if it was waking up from a long sleep and the frosty, sunny weather began.

Everything is now down and with one further footing to go around the old well area, we should soon see the beginnings of upward building. The bricks are chosen, I am going to have a lessson in brick laying and pointing from Terry, who has also made a neat little porch over the cellar door and the all important electricity fuse boxes are protected under a heavy sheet of plastic - let's hope it doesn't blow away otherwise we may have to resort to candle light!



 

  

Tea Break in the rafters

Mountain goat Terry dicing with danger

 

 

Almost gone!


The Cellar door

 

 

Scullery Conversion. Weeks Four and Five

All went well for about a week

Until Mick dug down six good feet.

They found the wall against the road

 Very wobbly and might implode.

They ummd and ahhd

All very bizzare, whilst

Engineer, designer, builder all

Contemplated the dodgy wall.

We did not want a long delay

And steered the planners right away.

At last they agreed a final course

Which I felt we could endorse.

Remove more spoil

Terry, shore up the wall

Steel ties and concrete slabs

Will hopefully stop the collapse!

They are now back on course
Working with full force
Terry, Mick plied cups of tea
With Leon around to oversee.

Overflow from Well

1st level floor



The Scullery Conversion. Week One

After a lot of hard graft, decisions about what we should keep or bin and many trips to the Tip, Jeff from Moulds Builders has arrived to begin work on the Scullery Conversion. The plasterboard on the ceiling has come down and with it a ton of dirt, the rafters now exposed and the old bread oven removed. John has built himself a cosy looking workshop in the cellar, put tool racks up and installed metal shelving. The freezer is now in the cellar after a valiant amount of lifting from two of Ela's friends whilst John held the freezer door!



The new Workshop