Saving this old building

[hademall]

Now that would have taken a carton for pain and suffering, always got to get a box on pour day it's part of the trade

Yep, got a box for myself

 

[ephect]

Bloody awesome you save that, looks amazing. Pity it's not a workshop!

 

[hademall]

Pity it's not a workshop!

Could be. I’m just plotting how to evict the missus

 

[afstruct]

Could be. I’m just plotting how to evict the missus

Sooo in a few weeks time ,when your missus has found this out we're going to be reading your obituary? !!!!

 

[hademall]

Sooo in a few weeks time ,when your missus has found this out we're going to be reading your obituary? !!!!

Knowing my missus I doubt they’ll find my body.

 

[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.

Original state of building

 

[Shangus]

Great job. You obviously put a lot of work into that. Respect

 

[hademall]

Great job. You obviously put a lot of work into that. Respect

Thanks Shangus. Yes it was quite a challenge, and doing it all myself wasn’t easy. I’m happy to have saved the building from basically falling down. Just repointing it and putting a new roof on has really stopped the weather from doing a lot more damage to it.
You see so many of these old stone farm buildings just left to rot. It’s a shame when you think about how hard it would have been to build them.

 

[Shangus]

Thanks Shangus. Yes it was quite a challenge, and doing it all myself wasn’t easy. I’m happy to have saved the building from basically falling down. Just repointing it and putting a new roof on has really stopped the weather from doing a lot more damage to it.
You see so many of these old stone farm buildings just left to rot. It’s a shame when you think about how hard it would have been to build them.

What’s the next project, is there an old shearing shed on your property that could do with a spruce up?

 

[hademall]

What’s the next project, is there an old shearing shed on your property that could do with a spruce up?

Ooh no! Not after what was said about me in the papers concerning sheep. Anyway that’s all in the past and I’ve moved on with my life