Saving this old building

[hademall]

So I've lived at this address for over five years now, and on the property is an old basalt rock building (some may refer to it as blue stone,) which is over a hundred years old, it was used as a farm building of sorts and apparently the family lived in it up until such time they built the house we now live in.
As you can see by the Photo it was in such a poor state, so I decided to do something about it.
My first job was to re-point the stone work. Being a bricklayer amongst other things, (Yes I've had lots of jobs) I was conscious of using a lime and sand aggregate mortar, knowing that a cement based mortar is damaging.
You see, cement mortar locks in moisture and doesn't allow the stone work to breath.
Attached is a before and after pic.

 

[hademall]

So I've lived at this address for over five years now, and on the property is an old basalt rock building (some may refer to it as blue stone,) which is over a hundred years old, it was used as a farm building of sorts and apparently the family lived in it up until such time they built the house we now live in.
As you can see by the Photo it was in such a poor state, so I decided to do something about it.
My first job was to re-point the stone work. Being a bricklayer amongst other things, (Yes I've had lots of jobs) I was conscious of using a lime and sand aggregate mortar, knowing that a cement based mortar is damaging.
You see, cement mortar locks in moisture and doesn't allow the stone work to breath.
Attached is a before and after pic.

Sorry this is the before.

 

[VS 5.0]

Interior done ?

 

[hademall]

Sorry this is the before.

Lol, no it's not! But never mind, I think I've posted it on ephects lockdown project.

 

[hademall]

Interior done ?

For fecks sake, give me a fecking chance!

 

[hademall]

My next job was to fix the roof and put in New timbers which was extremely difficult, as I did it while the old roof was still on, cutting each timber accordingly, whilst taking out any rotten existing timbers.
The block walls are two blocks thick, but on the inside skin they were one block lower, and so I had to build it up with the concrete blocks you can see in the pic, so that it was roughly even with the outside skin and therefore I could attach a new timber top plate so I could fix my new rafters to. You can just see the metal roofing straps which I fixed to the old outside top plate and ultimately were later layed under the blocks and fastened to the new rafters.

 

[hademall]

For fecks sake, give me a fecking chance!

Lex don't be so alarmed, I'm just kidding

 

[hademall]

Lex, this is for you. Interior and exterior, but I wasn't happy with the finished product so I started again

 

[hademall]

New concrete floor in the front part which is about five metres square. I'd put the new zincalume roof on by this time. It was so time consuming and laborious getting it right, because as you would imagine the building was so out of square.

 

[hademall]

New concrete floor in the front part which is about five metres square. I'd put the new zincalume roof on by this time. It was so time consuming and laborious getting it right, because as you would imagine the building was so out of square.

I'd also white washed the internal walls using the lime putty I'd made watered down.