Well the two storey extension is going well. We took a short sabbatical while the chippies did their thing. The upstairs floor has been finished and the framework for the second storey has been complete so it is time to continue building the exterior skin in limestone.
This particular job has internal brick for the first floor and timber framing on the second. It is slow work as each block needs to be pitched (a combination of chiseling and axing to get the required finished) and then cut into various sizes. Pitching is very different to beveling as the finish is more like the block being split in two.
When the house was originally built in 1910’s the stone was quarred in big bolders and sent to site and all resizing happened on site. Nowadays blocks are processed at the quarry and sent out at specific sizes making it a great challenge to make the existings sizes in the original building. Anyhow here’s a couple of updated pics…
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