Taking down the chimeny

The chimney for the aga has started its decent. There's drilling and hammering from each corner of the house now! 

Fantastic work though here's the two flues:

 

Looks like we'll get plenty of salvage from this demolition:

And with the rubble chute and dumper truck ready + an unwanted tennis court...

it looks like we've found the perfect space to store it all too!

Tackling the Trench

After our failed attempt at digging up a trench recently for the re-siting of the electricity and water feeds, we hired in some help and got a digger on site. Steve and his team have done a sterling job digging out the new route and achieved what would have taken months with our small trowel in a matter of hours.

New route for electricity cabling:

Cabling route and water feed to new pumphouse: 

They've also helped us make good the opening:

And the whole place is starting to look like a proper building site now!