17 November 2014
As promised, Tom and Gregg began on the dépendance at the beginning of November.
Tom took delivery of the custom-built A-frame king post truss last week. He photographed it before having to dismantle it so that he could transport it to the barn. Check out the pins holding it together...
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| This will face the barn and we will glaze between the beams in time |
I'll let Tom describe the process for y'all:
"... we took the roof off a couple of weeks ago, and then last week we took out the beams tying the two walls together, and then quickly began the shuttering. Every single timber in the building was rotten as a pear.
Removing the timbers exposed the poor condition of the stonework. Gregg has been repairing some of the big cracks and holes in the walls, and I’m relieved to say we have now poured our steel reinforced concrete, and we didn’t lose any more stonework than was anticipated.
So, without wanting to be too dramatic about it, the building has been 'saved' and we can now put a new roof on and make it look pretty again..."
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| Roof off, and masonry collapsing :( |
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| The far gable end is in good shape, though |
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| A vertical crack appears when the timbers are removed and the walls are unsupported |
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| The unseasonal warm weather is clearly over |
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| Looking though the doorway into the dépendance |
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| Feature (but no-longer-functional) corner oak beams have been removed |
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| There's that worrying crack - it wasn't there before |
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| OK, OK, we get it; there's a stonking great crack in the wall |
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| Shuttering... |
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| ...and a lovely shot of our new and G's favourite mug |
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| The 'good' gable |
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| Tom busy saving the dépendance! |
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| This shows the extent of the shuttering which will result in a horseshoe- or U-shaped concrete beam, which will hold the walls |
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| The walls at this corner must be far off true |
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| Concrete done! The A-frame will rest on this at this end... |
"Now we must wait a couple of weeks for the concrete to dry out. Then the A-frame goes on, and then the stone gable will be repaired, (we need the A-frame to be in place to match the heights and levels of the two gables, thus making the roof nice and easy for us.)"
The photos show the dire state of the little building. G and I are so happy that we chose to get it repaired before another damaging winter set in.
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