Moving out

Hope when you read the title you didn't think we had been defeated and had decided to leave....if you did you don't know the Kinlochs!
We were only discussing the other night that we don't have fortitude we have fivetitude (Sounds like a dad joke - right!)

The moving out refers to us moving outside and getting started (after many delays, hiccups and much angst) on the Verandah

Yeah! Cheers all round!

The verandah slab had been assessed as needing minor attention before we could build on it - not once had the engineer checked it out and come to the same conclusion, but twice. We had the assessment done soon after we bought the house as we thought we would do the verandah first. Plans changed and when the inside was liveable, and we were awarded a Heritage grant to help us do the verandah reconstruction, we then had it tested again. Yeah - still an easy job.

However, things never go quite according to plan do they - and when the necessity arose (many of you know why!) to get it checked out again the outcome was rather different. At first it was thought we might be able to do a rectification job to get it back to a standard good enough to support the verandah, but then after further investigation - SORRY  the whole thing has to come away and we have to start from scratch.

Oh well, we've done everything else to the highest standards and saved everything we could - and we tried here too.

So with new engineering plans and a work schedule designed to protect the building to the max, at last people (well a person) are back on site and it's action stations!







With saw in hand, it's necessary to ensure the verandah slab is separate from the house foundations. 





No jackhammers allowed, making sure that  there's minimal vibrations - it's cut and careful removal!!










The columns have been replicated from historic photos and here they are during the production process...

These are the lower columns - coated ready for shipment - they'll be painted on site.

They have been responsible for a few headaches down at Wagga Iron Foundry, having to have the pattern specially made and then casting something SOOO big (over 3m long)





...and the  columns (as they were at an earlier stage in the process).


We're gonna need a big crane to build this verandah



The enormous columns are already palleted up in Wagga Iron Foundry - as soon as the new slab is ready for them and the inners are in place, they will be on their way. Maybe getting excited again!