Barnstorming

We woke late this morning after an excellent nights sleep, I think the UK trip had been on both our minds.

However no time to dally, we had the builders arriving at 8.30am to start on dismantling the barn ceiling. They were going to remove all that was rotten and put a new floor in over the boiler room.

Brian had noticed that the ceiling in the well room was starting to deteriorate so we were doing a timely address.

Luckily the forecast for the next few days is excellent, but with the sun comes the risk of a storm which is forecast now for Sunday. So we need to be in a place to put things back into part of the barn on Saturday.

Arrived on time and got straight to work.

With all this in mind they are doing the dismantling in stages. M. Humbert rallied the guys and between the three of them they stormed through dismantling the ceiling, working constantly all morning and, to our surprise, even pushed through lunch to get the real dirty work completed.

It was such a pleasure experiencing their work etiquette, cleaning up as they went along, loading all the debris into the back of their truck ready to take to the tip. It was not an easy space to work in as we were not able to empty it totally. But they protected our stuff on the shelving we’d had to leave around the walls and swept everything down once they’d finished.

This is just a third of it.

This floor needs to come down, hay and all. This is the ceiling above the middle part of the barn.