With the new footings poured a few weeks ago we’re ready for the new wall, which if you’ve forgotten is to replace the wall lost in the second great wall disaster.
The first step in this is to remove the existing crumbling wall and we’re leaving most of this to Thomas and Matt as this is a load bearing wall and don’t want anything going wrong. The current wall is made of lime mortar and stone and it’s tough to remove. I think Tomas and Matt use a large diamond masonry circular saw to cut it into smaller sections.
We’re hoping the new wall can go up quickly as the house looks and feels very precarious propped up with a few 2×4’s and I always feel the house sags a bit more when in this state. In addition to that the house isn’t particularly secure with a huge gapping hole in it.
In some of the shots you can see our red brick chimney which is crumbling aways so alas this will have to go, a bit of a shame, but you couldn’t use it any more as it wouldn’t be up to code and would likely cause the house to burn down and having no chimney will actually help us divide the rooms better, so this is positive. Eventually we’ll have some cast iron wood burning fires and they only require a 6″ stainless chimney pipe.
