The Makers Mill: Week 1 to 3 - Gutting out of building

It doesnt take much more than a fleeting glance for anyone to reach the conclusion that this place is a wreck, and i say that with the least offence possible, because after all, I'm the mug that bought it!

So we need to get the place completely cleared out and stripped down to see the core structure and actually know where stage one of the build will land - therefore i am referring to this stage as stage zero (which is a little depressing as it took 3 weeks and an eye watering cost in skips)

Four 16 qubic yrd skips were needed in total to get it to the stage you see below and the roof is yet to be touched.

Probably the best part of which (from a spectators point of view at least) was ripping down the ceiling of the ground floor. Pulling down a plasterboard ceiling is not a bad job, but when 50 years worth of sawdust from the floor above comes along for the ride it becomes less enjoyable. The 12 inch (30cm) deep joist gap between the downstairs ceiling and upper floor was completely (and i do mean completely) filled with years of sawdust. This accounted for over 100 square meters of 30cm deep sawdust to shower down on your head each time you pulled down a section of plasterboard. It not only filled nearly half a skip on its own, but also filled every other orifice in my body (and then the shower drain when i got home), good times had by all.