Category Archives: Diary
The ceiling / roof is gone
There now (late May 2013) isn’t any wood left in or on the building.
A whole lot of the wood has been put aside to make some furniture (a big dining table for starters) for the new house.
A chunk of wood is also making it’s way to other houses and projects including a play space / play room for the kids of Robert at ra-studio (who created the initial designs for this project).
The ceiling / roof is going
With the roof down, the ceilings to the rooms became the new roof.
Well a chunk of it is now down !
Toilet with a view – demolition update
The bathroom bits have been stripped out. Mark thought the loo should hang out on the roof for a while!
I’m not sure Pebbles (above) has read the site safety notices !
The front windows are out.
Front windows and the porch are going
The front windows are coming out.
So far, all of the stained glass windows have come out intact.
– the plan is to incorporate these into the new house somehow.
The porch roof is down (photo below).
Recycling
A bunch of the windows and doors have gone to new homes.
A bunch of the wood is either going into local log burners or being set aside for furniture etc.
A lot of the roof tiles have been set aside for somebody or to be made into place mats etc.
A chunk of the metal was taken to the scrap metal dealers, where the lead, copper and other metal got a bit over £200 !
Asbestos removal
17 April 2013
Afternoon site meeting with Martin & James from ARCO2 / Eco Fab and Simon (Project Administrator) and myself.
Site refresher for Martin & Simon. First site visit for James.
Discussion re the best approach for what to dig out first, where to create a crane location etc.
Then back to my place for and around the table good catch up on where ARCO2 / Eco Fab are with regards to the detailed specification & drawings, so that we can firm up on pricing and get to a consequent contract etc.
It looks like ARCO2 / Eco Fab are a few weeks off the detail, so I’m going to crack on with Mark and others with the soft strip and then demolition.
16 April 2013
A pre demolition survey for asbestos showed up that the 2 loft water storage tanks were asbestos. As were the floor tiles in the entrance to the front.
These bits of asbestos were removed by Alan. Thanks Alan !
Soft Strip ….. continues a bit further
15th April 2013
Mark continues to crack on with taking the house apart.
It is looking like the tongue and groove floor boards are too well nailed and joined and dry to get up without them all getting wrecked / broken.
There has been a good recovery of the roof tiles that are from 2mm to 6mm thick.
– maybe a series of table place mats and coasters ?
This morning, the 15th of April 2013, although most of the tiles were off at the front, from the back (see picture below) it was till a bungalow with a roof.
Walking up the road in the evening, the roof was gone!
– and the photo opportunity of Mark in the chair was too easy.
Pretty dramatic from the rear garden:
and a great view from roof that will, roughly be the height of the bedrooms.
From the rear fields, you can only just pick out the bungalow past the rear garage.
Soft Strip ….. continues
9th April 2013
Well the skirting boards are off, so are all the internal doors and there seems to be a challenge with evolving ideas, to get up the tongue and groove floor boards without wrecking them.
It looks like we may have found a home for a bunch of the skirting boards, internal doors and some of the external doors and windows. A friend is renovating a property in Truro and is going to measure them up 🙂
The loft insulation is being extracted and re-distributed around the village to other properties, new and old.
A lot of the wood, that can’t be salvaged is being broken down and used in my multi fuel burner to heat my current house. Better than landfill or on-site burning it.
Some, but not all of the tiles look set to be looking for a new home.
