Arabella's bedroom - 17 Jan 2011
Arabella's bedroom February 2011
January 24 the master bedroom with the strange wall and window bisecting it! Also note the lovely coloured walls and frieze which was never finished properly
The wall starts to come down!
Gone! Now to re-wire and re-plaster!
The lovely built in wardrobe in the master bedroom.
Gone and now re-plastered, re-wired (TV and electrical cable ran through the back of the cupboard) - awesome sized room now!
Drying out the sitting room after the radiator 'O'-ring failed - at least we know what the O stands for now - O ****!
The old leaking roof light we have removed
24 March 2011 - The start of the doorway
The acro props go in!
The first steel goes in only two more to go
Day Two - Second steel in amidst vast amounts of dust
Day Two 25 March 2011- we are now the proud owners of 'a hole' in the wall
The waste and rubble generated from removing the wall...
Helen and Arabella looking at the mess...
The 'good' stone which came out of the wall and which we will recycle....note the very large upright stone on the far right....this was used above the fireplace....and looks a little bit like a tomb stone....is there a message here...???
29 March 2011 - Sunny day the roof comes off! This is the same roof the roof-light was removed from. Close-up of the old felt - doesn't look too bad here. Work also started on the "office" - must take some photos!
The wall section you can see at the back is the old chimney stack for the bread oven...
The ugly flat roof section above the window and the un-felted area where the roof-light used to be.
The gable end completely stripped. On top of the wall we found some old apothecary bottles and other glassware only two bottles were intact.
The entire side now stripped. Andy the roofer admiring his work. The weather took a turn for the worse at this point! HEAVY RAIN!
6 April 2011 - dormer built and slated, the roof is also starting to be slated. The other side has now been stripped.
The dormer and the roofer