Since Christmas I am on my own here in France, and because of Covid Curfew I don't get out much.
So I have been plodding along with this project now that the Garage project is nearly finished, and working on the interior of the old 150 year old oak frame mud walls barn. The building since the 2017 Planning works approval is now called the 'Sheep Lecture Theatre' ( yes Bruce, the connotation's are vast)
I had to make roof ceiling frames to take the insulation and the plasterboard. And these had to be self supporting and not using any support from the original 150 year old fragile and delicate structure.
Again this old building has a new building built inside it with new raft foundation and a new metal frame supporting and keeping the old structure stable and upright. Thermal block internal walls and lots of insulation that get it to a passive house standard. So the new ceiling frames are on the internal structure and lock together like a hip roof.
The ceiling is 6m high/ just under 20ft so the ceiling frames are dropped a little to allow for 400mm/16 inches of non flammable insulation.
I don't have any building /lifting machines as the job does not warrant the capital investment costs. Just hand winches and good old chain block and tackle gear. So its good old thick steel wall galvanised tube scaffolding, that i can erect a scaffold platform that i can wheel about and mount my plasterboard lifting machine on to.
As i get older i definitely notice that i can no longer just lift and secure plasterboard sheets as i used to, these sheets are 4ft/1.2m by 8ft6inch/2.5m and wont support there own weight, ie, pick it up at one end and the board will snap.
I have to fit the plasterboard around the old building oak frames timbers so each of the 20 off plasterboards are all cut to fit, and the original building is definitely not Square. I kept my ceiling frames square but still alot of fiddly work.
Some pics .......
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