The digger and the dumper
February 18, 2009
After the cold weather of the past days it almost feels like spring is in the air. Daytime temperature is about 10C, which is quite nice. We’re making good progress in Glendale. A digger arrived on site today and the aft extension was torn down (see picture). Raymond operated the digger. First the chimney was targeted. With a big bang it went straight through the already rotten roof. The remaining walls were a breeze. Within 30 minutes the extension was no more but a big pile of rubble…
Then Raymond went on with some landscaping: the bell mouth and the parking place. Question was whether there would be rotten rock to create a top layer. As a backup we had the remains of the extension. Luckily there was rotten rock as it looks better than old concrete.
We were a bit unfortunate with the dumper truck which we had arranged for moving the remaining rubble off site. The fan belt kept slipping which made the engine overheating during transport. Eventually we managed to get it on site.
Icky finished putting in the new lintels and started re pointing the inside of the north gable. The south gable is too damp at the moment so that has to wait a bit. The dark stone and the cream colored lime morter go very well together. It looked great.
Lacking any appropriate skills I was appointed laborer today! I removed the scaffolding from the inside and got rid of all the rocks that were left over from replacing the lintels.
Next post with pictures….
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