This week there was progress inside. The walls and roof of the Hall internally were lined out in plasterboard fixed onto battens on the 75 mm of insulation which will keep the spaces warm. Next week the plaster skim will be applied and the inside will look almost finished.
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Great progress this week: if not exactly raising the roof then at least pretty much finishing the roof. The slates have been fixed on the roof and the building is starting to look a bit more finished from the outside.
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Despite some rather wet weather recently our builders are making reasonable progress and we will soon be weather tight. The heating installation, along with first fix electrical work is complete and screeding was completed on Wednesday afternoon. Roof tiling was due to start yesterday and windows are due to be fitted on 12 November.
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One of the major features of the building renovation is putting in insulation. We nearly wrote ‘increasing’ but in fact, there was no insulation in the original building, which explains why it was always so cold! So now there are thick insulation panels fixed to all the outside walls, all over the roofs and all over the floor. We will now be wrapping up warm: the building is literally wrapped in insulation which should keep the warmth in and make the space much more comfortable to be in, especially in winter, making our energy consumption much more efficient.
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This week a great step forward was made with the installation of the glazing to the Ambulatory. The glass was delivered on Tuesday. After a false start when the churchyard gates proved too narrow for the crane to get through, a smaller crane was brought to site and on Thursday the first panels started to be fixed into position.
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The steelwork for the Ambulatory is nearly finished and painted almost completed. The lugs sticking up will carry the glass fixings which will hold the glass above the steelwork so that it will look as if it is floating. The glass is now expected to be delivered next week and then the Ambulatory will be dry and ready for the underfloor heating.
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The builders are doing their best to keep up the pace of work, despite setbacks and delays. The roof slates are one problem (more on them below) and another is that delivery of the glass for the Ambulatory roof has been delayed by two weeks by the manufacturers. It will not now be installed until the middle of October, which will hold up the installation of the underfloor heating. However, there is other work which can be done to try to mitigate the delay.
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As the main roof starts to be covered in plywood sheets to give it strength and stability, work moves inside with the first fix of the electrics.
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The Steelwork goes up: the steel lattice structure to support the glass roof of the Ambulatory is being welded into place this week.
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This week has seen the next significant stage of construction with the big roof trusses being set up. These will be partly visible inside the hall and form the inside of the roof.
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