PROGRESSING SLOWLY INSIDE THE PROPERTY.

Pembrokeshire Council's Beaches Officer is calling today - i have asked if i can just take the old rock/pebbles back to the beach.

MORE WORK TO THE GRAVEYARD STEPS.

MORE EXCAVATIONS FOR THE UNDERPINNING.

The Building Control Officer called today and was happy that we have found rock. The contractor is now going to start work on the preparation of the underpinning.

PROGRESSING WITH THE EXISTING FOUNDATION INVESTIGATION. UNDERPINNING ??

Spent all day digging ! Access not good but i'm sure i'm down to the rock outcrop.

  

ALL THE CEILING JOISTS REMOVED.

This picture shows all the existing ceiling joists removed. The king post trussses look great !

ORGANISING THE ROCK'S/PEBBLES WHICH WERE UNDER THE EXISTING SUSPENDED TIMBER FLOOR.

STORAGE OF THE FLOOR BOARDS AND A START ON THE NEW ENTRANCE DOOR.

Storing the existing floor boards behind the Chapel to use again.

Ive stored them well off the floor. With a little bit of care they could be nice.

Started to "cut out" the new side entrance door today. Just going to take the inner skin away if i can just to keep the building secure in the mean time.

REMOVING THE EXISTING SUSPENDED FLOOR.

Finished taking up the suspended timber ground floor, all the dwalf pebble walls under the floor and also the pulpit.

Just a small bit of the floor and pulpit left.

UNDERPINNING INVESTIGATION.

I was concerned that if i demolished the existing vestibule - would the main front wall of the Chapel be supported. I was hoping that the main front wall of the Chapel had a foundation or was built off rock. The existing Chapel ground floor level is approximately 2.5m above the road level. I had to potentially excavate down to the road level to investigate the wall construction.

TAKING THE EXISTING TIMBER SUSPENDED FLOOR UP.

Started to take the existing timber floor up.

There is some nice floor boarding. These floor boards were supported off floor joists which were supported off some pebble dwalf walls which were laid directly on to the clay sub soil.

Part of the floor boarding removed.

This picture indicates the corner where the underpinning investigation excavation will take place.

Part of the floor joists removed - see pebble dwalf wall's.

Pebble dwalf wall's being removed to prevent any hard spots under the new floor slab and the slab cracking in the future.

CLEARING THE BACK AREA OF THE CHURCH.

Decided to clear the area at the rear of the chapel. Was not sure what was there ? After some exploratory work i found out that it was around 100 bags of soil and clay put there by a grave digger. He had dug the last grave which was about 5 years ago and put them behind the chapel and he must have forgot to take them away. I decided to carry them up to the grave yard and use the soil to build the banking on the side of the path. This was by far the hardest day's work that i have ever done.

I must have walked up the step about a 100 times - my calf muscles were in bit's but i slept like a log that night. Good job done.

REMOVING THE TIMBER WALL CLADDING.

A quick video on the progress.  http://vimeo.com/36191444

Plasterboard ceiling removed, Wooden wall cladding removed, site set up.

FINDING THE KING POST TRUSSES.

CEILING PLASTERBOARDING REMOVED.