Well last week i didn’t get much done, was busy with work, i got one afternoon in, Ive made up for it today, had a really good day and got all the tracking done for the bathroom and framed out the office. Im going to make sure i get plenty in this week, also we [...]
When we bought the castle there was some of the original oak beams remaining, the main beams, massive things approx 16 inch square are all there, but its the smaller ones that span between them, anyway, Ive been itching to strip one and see what they come up like, yesterday I did just that, they [...]
Some time ago we had a big bramble problem at the front of the castle, all the base of the tower was so badly overgrown with them, then another large section was the same, nothing seemed to work, then someone suggested goats, telling us that goats loved brambles, so, off we went and bought 3 [...]
The moat is filled in at the front, we think this was partially due to the practice during the French revolution of knocking the tower down in to the moat and therefor breaching two defences at once, also over the years this as probably spread across the [...]
Before we started the roof we had a lot of clearing to do, because the previous roof was in such a bad condition, most of it had collapsed then the loft floor and the first floor had come down as well, so on the ground floor you couldn’t walk under the beams there was that [...]
One of the problems is there is a lot of work already done, so i have to catch up posting about that, then of course work is being done every week, so I’m going to put the previous stuff in “work done” and put the new stuff in a different category.
So, I have the castle, now to get started, the first job was a roof the castle is in 3 sections (I will do a plan to show this later) for the purpose of work we are doing each section one at a time, the first section as we call it, is actually the youngest [...]
