It's just over a year since we started work on the Barn - that's an easy sentence to write and a year into the project we have achieved a lot but still have lots more to do. Being so close to the action makes it difficult to keep a sense of perspective so sometimes it takes a visit from someone who's not seen the barn for a while to remind us what's been achieved. A year ago we were installing steel beams into the barn, this week we are installing insulation and plasterboard ceilings hung from the beams. When the barn is complete no-one will see the steel beams but the ceilings will be in full view and, in some ways, that's the big difference today as we increasingly start to work on items that will be seen. It needs a different kind of mindset; work in millimetres rather than metres, kilogrammes rather than tonnes, single screws rather than hundreds.
We now have windows and doors in the main openings
and a new fireplace (with carved granite lintel )
Both the upstairs end wall (which will be in our bedroom) and the downstairs one have been insulated and boarded ready for plastering
And the upstairs floors have been braced, strengthened and completed ready to support the new ceilings
We have a pretty respectable workshop now - here's Barbara on the crosscut saw :
And Adam's been working on building the new windows for the small windows we didn't get done with the main barn glazing
As I said at the beginning - very different tasks and skills from what we were doing a year ago .....
