Mark Harry
MAISON DESIGN
Architectural Design Consultancy
25 Caldicot Road
Rogiet
Caldicot
Monmouthshire
NP26 3SE
Tel 01291 422712
email mark@maisondesign.biz
A complete refurb of old stone cottage. Remove all cement render/joints and rejoint in Lime mortar. Recyled newspaper insulation in Loft. Breathable paint over Lime walls. Hemp and Lime render to interior. Solar panels. Reuse old cesspit as grey water holding tank. High insulation to all walls. Super insulation to new floors and relay Flag stones with under floor heating. New timber windows throughout |
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| Dirty and dusty job taking down all the Lath and plaster ceilings in preperation for complete rewire. Lath to be reused on the new Log burner | Floor strewn with Lath and plaster |
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| The centre Green wall is being taken down to handrail height to get as much natural light into the Cottage | Floors down to reduced levels |
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| Main stone wall upstairs knocked through and awaiting steel beams. | End Elevation showing the roof off the store and pig pen. Overhead electrical supply just been insulated by SWALEC |
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| Scaffolding was erected and in the process of taking down the end brick chimney stack. All ready now for removal of all the paint on the external stone walls | Living room floor all dug away down to reduced levels. All ready now for insulation and slab. |
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| The sand blasting has just been completed and has achieved the result I was after. The next stage is for lime pointing to the stonework | End elevation taking shape |
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| End elevation onto garden | Welsh slates taken off and set aside. New breather membrane, battens and replace rotten fascia board |
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| Pig pen taken down and doorway being knocked through into the kitchen | All floors now down to reduced levels |
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| The new timber windows to the first floor have been fixed. They were all given Earth Borne paint in the workshop before being despatched to site | New doorway to the kitchen has been constructed and the pig pen being rebuilt from set aside stone |
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| Concrete floors are now down | Welsh slates being fixed to the main roof |
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| The old piggery which will now be the Utility is coming on nicely | End gable stonework all pointed up in lime and breathable paint applied. Which means that the scaffolding has been dropped so the lower roof can be worked on |
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| Over sail of the roof to house the Air Source Heat pump. The resalvaged iron gate will form the enclosure to the pump. The block walls are now being clad with the set aside stone. | |
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