"If only we had a barn or a shed then we could store all this rubbish."
Have you ever wondered what it's like to have too many barns? Well we had that problem and worse still, they were in our way. The hay-sheds were so close to the house that we couldn't build the extension without first taking down a barn or two.
| Now we could start in earnest. With space to build the extension it was time to get the builders to quote for the work. Armed with copies of our plans we sought out every builder we could find and asked for quotes for the new extension. We were advised to "Knock it down and start again" and that was what we did. A JCB made very short work of the old barn, and we stood back and thought "there's no going back now" It was an astute builder who suggested to us that rather than trying to dispose of tons of rubble and stone which would cost a fortune to transport, use it to raise the level of the ground. (our land slopes quite a lot)The pile of rubble was duly moved aside and a 12" wide "dead wall" was built to the required floor level and it was then in-filled with the pile of stones. This was to become the 4ft high foundations for the new extension and brought it's own problems..... |
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