THE OLD MILL

One other job that we had to do is as a result of a rather sorry tale. The expensive Accoya windows we installed in the mill in December...

Now we were into the fiddly timber work on the roof in terms of the valleys and framing round the mill itself. The valley bearers were to...

The timber frames on the intersecting portion of the building that links the mill to the new build were added next. The roof on this...

When the posi-joists were installed for the first floor the landing was left out as this is a much shorter span side to side (3.6m) which...

With the posi-joists in place they were infilled with concrete block on the inside skin and a course of block was laid around the outside...

With the walls at lintel height the lintels were now ready to be installed, but first there was the small matter of a piece of steel that...

After all the demolition, concrete, drains and, of course, the mess, we were at last ready to start building the new part of the house...

Before we got too giddy about finally being in the rebuilding phase there was the small matter of the drainage to deal with. While the...

In late May we had taken the decision to demolish the bungalow completely to make the build easier, but now the time was upon us to start...

The original projected completion date for phase 1 of the mill works was late October 2021, but we actually completed it in January 2022....

While phase 1 was being completed we had been thinking a lot about our design for the extending of the mill and were getting increasingly...

Once the roof was completed externally the ceiling needed reinstating inside the top bedroom. As we had effectively moved the roof up by...

The roof was progressing well even if we were now working stupidly long hours on it due to needing to have it ready for the lead...

With the old roof now gone it was time to build the new one. In terms of the design we wanted to sit the roof down inside the mill walls...

The first task on our Phase 1 list was the replacement of the top eleven courses of brickwork as the existing ones are crumbling due to...

Phase 1 of the project was to pay some attention to the mill in the form of replacing the windows, addressing any issues with the roof...

So, to the big one... this is the most major of our projects and hopefully the most fun even though it will likely also be the most...