All the timber from the Old Place has been cleared up and chucked into one huge pile! One day there will be .. one enormous bonfire! We will burn up most of the wood but some of it is in good condition and will keep ready for future use. All that remains is the chimney [...]

Today we had a party! We invited all our nearby family to come and have fun demolishing the Old Place! We had six extra people here, all making great efforts in helping us break apart the wooden shell of the Old Place! We calculated that today’s multi man & woman workforce, probably saved us at [...]

Today we have finally got all the cement panels with the asbestos, from the Old Place and all corners of the garden loaded into the skip we hired last Thursday. We had calculated that we have about 1.5 cubic metres of of the stuff, which nearly filled the skip. Right up to the top. The [...]

The internal walls and ceiling cement panels are completely off in the Old Place! It is all piled into one location ready for the skip when it comes. It looks like that it will fill a large 8 cubic yard skip completely!

The last couple of days have seen the internal walls, ceilings, doors and windows wooden battens and framework being stripped off! Also the bathroom wall is now dismantled, and all the cement panels off both the walls and ceiling in that room as a whole, is now stripped off too! you can now see the [...]