Starting the cellar

So today Brian started the cellar rebuild. It’s not something that will happen in a hurry. Firstly, he had to clear some of the boxes of wine and the rubble that had been put there out of the way. Some of the stone he had to move will be used to help create the wall that will go through the middle of the room from left to right, splitting the room in half and creating a kind of temperature airlock. Second job was to start cleaning the beams. This was a messy one, that required scraping away not just the years of dust and cobwebs, but also any woodworm damaged wood.

Brian says that under every old and crumbling beam is a new beam waiting to come out. What’s left of the beams after scraping will be treated to help prolong their life, but that only comes after all the clearing up is finished.

It’s a dirty old job!