After various issues regarding planning permission October 2008 saw the start of the long-awaited renovation of an old house and barn at our home, Las Razes, Touffailles, Tarn et Garonne. France.
We are going to place photograps of the on-going progress on this site as a way of letting people follow the progress. We have been sending out emailed photographs but this is causing the 'clogging' up of various email 'inboxes'.
Some of the photographs are of 'boring bits' - boring that is, unless like Bob are keen on these sort of details.
We need to get the building up to a stage where it can be secured/watertight before the start of the holiday season and the arrival of our summer guests. So the pressure is on for this self-build project. Luckily Bob knows what he is doing.
For anyone that did not know the old ruin - a set of photographs of the old building appears first. The hope is to return the building as near as possible to its original exterior shape and character. However the ruin was quite unsafe and was built into and around bed-rock, so the plan is to take down the building completely. All the walling stone would then be put to one side and the rubble moved for landscaping. A pecking machine would come onsite to dig out the bed-rock and create a level site. The building would then rise again, benefitting from up-to-date dampcoursing and insulation. The walls would be built with a cavity, with the original stone being replaced on the exterior walls and some of the interior walls.
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