A door in Accoya.
Wedged tenons. Pinned with brass. Fixing the drip, with brass flatheads and my turnscrew. Holding temporarily with the Jorgensens.
Hunted and gathered this new old anvil today. It was a lively beast and took some subduing, but with Mick on the seesaw, we roped it in!
So, forging ahead with the forging. Bang bang bang.
Lots of angles in the roof lantern. Basically a miniature hipped roof, with glazing bars instead of rafters.
A temporary structure and tent was placed over the roof lantern, as the work was happening in the middle of winter.
On installation day, a genie lift was used to raise the lantern up in two sections.
Over on to the scaffold tower.
Then slid along, and posted through the 'letterbox' in the tent structure. Over the hole and then the scaffold boards slid out and the lantern fixed down.
The tarpaulin battened back down, for work to continue, in the dry!
Birdwood House is a listed building, overlooking Totnes market square. It was originally called Somerset House and was the home of the Babbage family; later to produce Charles, the inventor of the Difference Engine, the first mechanical computer.
The building was refurbished in 2005 to house the Gallery, a venue for art. The art gallery is partially lit by a roof lantern. Unfortunately, the lantern had seen better days, so we were called in to do a restoration of it, starting on the 23rd December last. Listed building consent was acquired by the owners. After stripping the paint back, it was obvious restoration was not possible, and so a new lantern was made, saving and restoring the roll-top cap.
Here it is this morning, complete with anti-bird wire to replace the nasty bird spikes that were there before.
