2006 and we are moving over.
We sell the bungalow and move all our stuff over to the yard, and move into the mobile home.
2007
Getting sorted, but all a bit of a muddle!
2008
The Dutch Barn goes next door, the workshop is finished, and things are moving along.
2020 Mobile Home
Having spent 10 years in the mobile home it was now surplus. Having cleaned it up inside the plan was to see if it would sell. Having disconnected the services it was attached to the tractor to tow around the cattle shed, but after a days work and only 4 metres progress it became evident the wheels were totally seized. We then entered plan B which entailed dismantling where it stood.
Anything recyclable was removed from the inside, services, timber and fittings. The chipboard furniture was cut up and filled a large pallet crate with firewood, the larger pieces going into the timber store. A hole was dug for landfill scrap and a shallow crater for items that would burn. Overall a third went to recycling / landfill / bonfire respectively.
Dismantling is the reverse of building, the outer aluminium skin was removed, insulation removed, floor coverings taken up, windows taken out, non-structural cupboards removed, then the remaining skeleton broken up with the digger. This eventually leaves an open floor, fixed to a timber frame over a steel frame. All this timber was cleaned up and put in my store, the steel frame cut up and buried.
Anything recyclable was removed from the inside, services, timber and fittings. The chipboard furniture was cut up and filled a large pallet crate with firewood, the larger pieces going into the timber store. A hole was dug for landfill scrap and a shallow crater for items that would burn. Overall a third went to recycling / landfill / bonfire respectively.
Dismantling is the reverse of building, the outer aluminium skin was removed, insulation removed, floor coverings taken up, windows taken out, non-structural cupboards removed, then the remaining skeleton broken up with the digger. This eventually leaves an open floor, fixed to a timber frame over a steel frame. All this timber was cleaned up and put in my store, the steel frame cut up and buried.
2020 Agricultural Building Demolition
There were two Agricultural buildings next to the Barn, the concrete plinth had been dated 1984 and the buildings 1993, the buildings last used as grain stores. I had used one as a store and the other as my first workshop.
The one attached to the Barn was part disassembled with the roof timbers being used as the base for the scaffold on one side, the rest used as general storage whilst the Barn was converted. A building of this sort was a valuable asset for working on a Barn conversion and gave a dry store for materials and to season timber, often for a year or more prior to use.
One half was dismantled when the scaffold came down, but the other remained. Whilst being really useful it was sat in the middle of our ‘back’ garden and had to go.
Demolition was fairly straightforward; the only complication was I had to do it single handed. I made up a portable scaffold tower with two old towers joined together with scaffold boards and moved around by the Forklift. The Forklift was in constant use in moving the heavy components, lifting off roof sheets, dropping down girders safely, and just about every procedure. The digger came in to pull the walls down and the bucket on the Kubota for moving the rubble away.
John Cottam, the last owner, had made it well in true agricultural fashion. The walls were 6” block, the frame steel girders and angle iron with timber cladding and a cement fibre corrugated roof, with some baler twine at key points for added strength! In fact, one timber overlap join where I would have used three 3” screws actually had nine 6” nails in.
100% of the materials were recycled. The timbers, steel and roof sheets will be re-used, scrap timber put on the wood burner, and the concrete blocks are going to the crusher.
The one attached to the Barn was part disassembled with the roof timbers being used as the base for the scaffold on one side, the rest used as general storage whilst the Barn was converted. A building of this sort was a valuable asset for working on a Barn conversion and gave a dry store for materials and to season timber, often for a year or more prior to use.
One half was dismantled when the scaffold came down, but the other remained. Whilst being really useful it was sat in the middle of our ‘back’ garden and had to go.
Demolition was fairly straightforward; the only complication was I had to do it single handed. I made up a portable scaffold tower with two old towers joined together with scaffold boards and moved around by the Forklift. The Forklift was in constant use in moving the heavy components, lifting off roof sheets, dropping down girders safely, and just about every procedure. The digger came in to pull the walls down and the bucket on the Kubota for moving the rubble away.
John Cottam, the last owner, had made it well in true agricultural fashion. The walls were 6” block, the frame steel girders and angle iron with timber cladding and a cement fibre corrugated roof, with some baler twine at key points for added strength! In fact, one timber overlap join where I would have used three 3” screws actually had nine 6” nails in.
100% of the materials were recycled. The timbers, steel and roof sheets will be re-used, scrap timber put on the wood burner, and the concrete blocks are going to the crusher.