Last time I had finished off the downstairs (well, mostly). I continued taking the plaster off the stairs and continued along the upstairs hall. Finally I removed the roof on the upstairs landing.
In the next picture you can see the outside wall of the bedroom. The stairs here will eventually be removed so this wall will have to come out. On inspection, it was not a stud wall, but instead was made of vertical floorboards.
You can see in the picture the vertical joins between the boards. from the inside of the room, a horizontal board half way holds the whole lot together.
The whole lot was very securely nailed together will flooring nails. The wall had been put in before the roof, so the whole lot was locked together. However, after a lot of persuasion, the wall came out leaving a big open space.
Taking the wall out upstairs also removed the downstairs wall in the hall. The cupboard under the stairs was removed also.
Taking out this wall left the problem of the old electric meter. It was secured to the wall but the wall is no more. Although all the power has been off for years, there is still a supply to the meter. In removing the various boxes I broke the main isolation switch - oops. It is now covered with tape until the meter is removed and the supply made safe.
The next picture was taken after my Dad came to help. This was the back bedroom (Olivia's room) and the plaster had to come off the wall that joined on the main house. This plaster was solid and very difficult to come off. You can see the concrete plaster along the side walls where the block-work has been added to the stone wall in order to make the building two-storey.
Looking in the other direction, the rest of the wall covering was removed as far as the concrete render. Notice the majestic looking Land Rover outside the window.
Moving to the front bedroom (Harry's room), the rest of the plaster and the roof was removed from the remaining walls, but the fireplace could not be tackled.
Pops did a good job removing the plaster from the last bit of hall - this is looking from Harry's door to Olivia's door.
I now need to take the pictures of the rest of the work that was done whilst Dad was down. We worked on the back living room and the kitchen. We also tidied up the workshop ready for making alterations needed to give access to the back house wall. Lots of repointing needed.
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