The first sections of the frame to be built are the side walls. We're working on on side wall at a time. Here the joints for 'top plates'...

This is last major part of sole plate repair - a nice straight run of sole plate and a couple of posts which have rotted away along the...

A quick update with some more photos of the final structural oak repairs in the dining room of the old cottage. These consist of creating...

After all the clearing away its now time to start some repairs. Most areas of sole plate (the piece of timber the building sits on) are...

Ive just recently spent a week clearing away some of the debris from the lower floor of the cottage. I am going to start by repairing the...

October 2017 and I finally managed to find some time to concentrate on knocking down the two extensions adjoining the cottage. In time...

Before work on the house could start we needed to build the garage/workshop. The house has been full of boxes since the move so we needed...

So after the first winter of continually getting stuck whilst trying to both drive on and off the driveway it was time to get a better...

A few pics of the fencing work.

Now we had the site cleared back it seemed a good time to get the pond and the ditch cleared out. The pond was so full of silt that we...