Boxing in the Hopper, Bricking up the Pumphouse, Sorting out the Water

Mike has been in the cider barn making good of the housing around the new hopper:

And also been blocking in the old doorway on the pumphouse:

It's fully insulated on the inside now:

And after a tough few days fitting it out with 18mm plyboard:

Hendy's have been in to attach all of the inner workings: 

So it's looking like it won't be too much longer now until we have 

clean, filtered, spring fed water - yay!

A little bit of bricklaying

Now that the tank had arrived it was time to get the roof back on. Before that though, there was a little bit of repair work to do...

An old and battered window needed our attention:

We had intended on replacing it but, after some advice from Hendys (the treatments that we will be using in the pumphouse are light sensitive and so may not work if we expose them to daylight), we decided to block it up. Mike got very excited by this as this meant he could put to practice some of the skills he had picked up from his bricklaying course

Good job we'd salvaged those bricks from the front of the house:

After a chisel and a scrub with the wire brush they came up good as new:

Ideal for what Mike needed to build up the surround:

We also removed the old door frame and reinstated a new one:

After using up the last of the cement and a bit more patching up, 
we were all done for the day:

    

Whilst we'd been repairing the pumphouse, 

Steve and his team had been filling in the pipe trench, cementing the floor of the plant room and finishing off that entrance to the walled garden:

Another good day's work!