Tag: Demolition

Restoration Girl is like a pig in muck (and muck there is aplenty).  Never has there been a better time to educate oneself in the finer points of pointing. Or to get the facts about lats. Or debate about rebates. Or get hardcore about, um, hardcore.

FIVE MONTHS IN……

My how the time has flown! Five months in, how are we getting on?  How are we holding up? Well… at the risk of summoning the apparition of Sarah Beeny, we are so far ON TIME and ON BUDGET. Hooray!

Ok, so it all still looks like a magnificently well- appointed, deceptively spacious drugs den.  But I am starting to imagine living here :-):

So let’s check out the progress. Here’s the time lapse, laser display, high definition slow mo sequence coming atcha……

PARTY ROOM

Start day

Concrete floor

Roof off, new purlins

Rafters on, steels for oak frame

Felt on

KITCHEN

This is the view of the large granary towards the kitchen end….

Ground zero

Floors in

Block work going up

Rotten truss removal

Roof coming off

Felted roof and openings

MUSIC ROOM

I’ve always wanted a (sound insulated) room to slay some Debussy  in.   This is how the room was when we started (and now we’ve wrecked it!!):

Before

Before

Before

A bit untidy but showing potential…

Ceiling down

DPC

Floors

Joists going in

Ceiling again!

There’s lots more to see in my next post including dramatic footage for all you roofing fanatics out there. 🙂  Thanks for reading!

Until next time,

Kat xxxxx

RG is currently drinking a celebratory train beer on the way back from Yorkshire. “Official” building work has finally begun at Farmageddon.

There has, of course, been “unofficial” building work going on for a while but this has mostly involved RB hiring a digger to move large mounds of earth from one side of the farmyard, um, to the other. Although it was gratuitous fun for RB, we’ve now moved into a new phase of [arguably] forwards progress….. ♥

MOVING OUT DAY

It’s been moving out day for some of the Farmageddon community. Our Polish builder “guardians “(four or five or ten of them) have moved out of the farmhouse and although it’s going to take a JCB to remove their impressive collection of empty Zywiec cans, they have been fabulous tenants. They’ve never called us to change a lightbulb. In fact, they even installed their own two-tonne biomass boiler when ours got nicked.   I shall miss them.

They have also left a legacy of rather potent-looking herbs in the greenhouse. The random caravan, three broken-down dishwashers, four old-school TVs, the comedy PolSat dish (I swear it receives from the Hubble), oil drum barbeque, some experimental taxidermy (scary) and innumerable battered leather sofas have also been evicted. Farmageddon is sadly less well-appointed now.

Evicted caravan

End of an era

The lone Farmageddon bat is also moving out to his new luxury bat pad.   The owls and house martins have already taken offence at the all-pervasive smelly sock whiff in the farmhouse and have fled to the trees.   Now it’s just us……and four or five or ten builders. Dé jà vu

TAKING STOCK

So here we are. Two years into the adventure and allegedly 15 months away from move-in date. Let’s take stock of what we’ve done so far….

1. Moved some mounds of earth around
2. Knocked down a load of sheds
3. Dug up several hundred tonnes of concrete
4. Built a man cave shed (impressive)
5. Moved some mounds of earth around.
6. Had twins
7. Brought in two harvests
8. Destroyed a neighbour’s barley field (escaped heifers – doh!!)
9. Were the victims of a major scrap heist
10. Hired an architect
11. Sacked an architect
12. Hired a new fantastic architect
13. Hosted a christening and a caravan rave
14. Scrounged repeatedly from DEFRA
15. Moved some mounds of earth around
16. Made some friends ♥

I’ll leave you with some photos of Farmageddon as she stands today.

Until next time…Kat xxx