Apr 03
The scaffold is down and the roof is complete affording the opportunity to see just what has been achieved since August 2013. Of course there is still lots to be done, not least in the way of landscaping, but externally at least from the rear view, the building is complete.
Glenlair House August 2013
Glenlair House March 2014
Mar 24
The dining room appears enormous and although on the North side of the building with its French Windows and South facing glass door should be a delight in which to dine. I know mine host will know how to make the most of its attributes! Externally, the stonemasons, Mathew and Joe have all but completed re-pointing the complete building, whilst the slaters are still struggling to finish the complicated roof over the bay window.
The Dining Room
The Dining Room
Mathew and Joe finish pointing
Dormer Roof
Feb 21
The men are busy fittting windows to the various openings and the stone masons have fitted the skews or Kneelers (if you are English) to the roof edges and even atop the small dormer roofs at the front. Slating of the roof is still not complete, but they are getting there, all be it slowly. Today they were fitting the ridges.
Bay Windows installed
Front windows installed
Feb 19
Despite the appalling weather, the slaters have managed to cover a large part of the roof with slates, quite clearly turning the green felt into black slates. The masons meanwhile have almost completed the stonework on the south wall, although they too have been held up, not so much by weather, but by the late arrival of the sandstone facings for the back door.
Slates 2
Slates 1
South Wall Rebuild
Jan 20
Everyday seems to see more and more men on site -joiners, electricians, plumbers, stonemasons roofers and even the odd gopher, cleaning up after them! So there are signs of progress everywhere, to put it succinctly upstairs and downstairs! There’s even a room with a view – of Angus’s office in the garden!
First Floor takes shape – 1
First Floor takes shape – 2
Underfloor Heating sealed
Garden view from First Floor
Jan 19
Well work recommenced on the 6th. January and it is plain that the lads were all well rested as they set to with gusto, ousting poor Angus and Frances from their cosy master bedroom and proceeding to demolish it! I’m sure it will all turn out for the best in the end, but right now it is starting to look much as it did, when Henrietta and I renovated the Lodge in 1992.
So that you can understand what I mean, I attach photos of the bedroom taken then and photos taken today.
Master Bedroom 2 – 1992
Master Bedroom 1 – 1992
Master Bedroom 1 – 2014
Master Bedroom 2 – 2014
Jan 05
Just before the men knocked off for their well-earned Christmas and New Year break, the plumbers were busy laying the underfloor heating coils on the ground floor. It was hoped to pour the concrete covering before Christmas, but unfortunately the wild wet and windy weather made that impossible.
The stone facing on the two gable ends is well advanced as is the stonework on the first of the two dormers at the front of the building.
Underfloor Heating 2
Underfloor Heating 1
Gable Stonework
Dormer Stonework
Dec 14
Now plainly visible as you drive past the farm on the B794 going to/from Corsock, thanks to the newly felted green roofs. The window openings have been sealed with polythene and to all extents and purposes, the building is now wind and watertight.
Front
Back
Dec 12
A forest of roof trusses makes the Cat’s Cradle and one can only wonder what it will be like crawling around there tracing leaks or running cables – ah well they’re young!
The Bay window at the rear of the house which was partially dismantled whilst stabilising the building in 2005 has been restored and the bottom sill lowered in order to make a French window opening into the back garden. Unfortunately because of all the scaffolding still in place, it is a little difficult to see clearly just what’s been done.
Lintel Removal Dec 2008
Bay Window stabilisation Dec 2008
Sandstone stored for future use Dec 2008
Lintel Back in place Dec 2013
Binky proudly shows off lower sill
Cat’s Cradle
Dec 03
Suddenly a transformation is taking place as the flat packs are dismantled and become floors, walls and even the roof. Mind you all this is only possible with the right tools to do the job – screwdrivers and the odd shifting spanner are definitely not up to the job – you definitely need the most enormous crane and a nail-gun or two!
Roof takes shape
Enormous Crane
Walls and floors
On the roof
