Monday 6 April 2015

Breaking On Through

One of the things we had talked about doing with the house was creating an opening from the courtyard wall at the back into the walled/kitchen garden. As the new kitchen will open up into the courtyard it made sense to have this connection. This wasn't a necessity of course and just something we had put onto our ever growing 'to do' list. But, after a lengthy discussion with both the electricity board and our pump engineer it became more urgent as we needed to get some pipe work directed through the wall. 

So, we started off by marking out the position of the 'hole':


I started to remove a few of the first stones with a pick axe and crowbar: 


After struggling with the digging out of a trench (we had no shovel) Mike came back to the wall and started removing a few of the larger stones:


It soon became obvious this was a one man job, so I went back up to the room we had been working on before and took the remaining plaster off the future ensuite walls:


It meant I had a good view of Mike working his way through the wall... 

The lump hammer came out, and some makeshift props:


 Then we were through! Yipee!: 


The place is starting to look like a proper building site now:


Some useful stones for future projects:


 And perhaps a lintel would be good to save the rest of the wall from tippling in!


An impressive start though - we should be able to get going with the rest of the trench now


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