Timber Frame Walls to be erected and final roofing installed.

Scaffolding is erected on the south side to help the roofers install the curved roof. The curved roof comes in 3 parts. The metal liner is installed first, followed by metal spacers and insulation finally the exterior curved sheet is installed to complete the roofing.

This shot shows the timber framed wall panels which will be installed to form the basis of the new walls. The Timber framed walls were manufactured by JSI Timber frames by Nathen's team in Milford Haven and designed by Andy best from www.studs.org.uk in Trowbridge.  This 12 wheel articulated lorry delivered to a large Lay-by just north of Monkton, 1 mile from Woodhayes. We loaded the timber frames on to a tractor and trailer so that we could transport to Woodhayes. The Articulated Lorry would not have reached the site due to the narrow East Devon Lanes.

This shot shows the 6 x 2 inch capping plates which will be installed above the steel I beams to take the lower end of the curved roof and tie in the new timber framed walls. Bellow the 6 x 2 timber is half of the Douglas Fir cladding which will be applied to the exterior of the building.

This is a shot of the curved roof components including the insulation which will be sandwiched between the lower steel liner and the exterior steel curved roof.

"Battlesden Copse", a new Broad Leaf Copse for Woodhayes Farm

This track was created late last year to enable access to Crown All Wood. This will enable timber wagons to move timber from the ancient woodland without disrupting farming on the lower park fields. The Track is on a steep gradient and will have a 9ft Deer gate either end. 

This shot shows a bundle of lime tree saplings which we planted out over the Easter weekend. Brian Clapp helped me to plant 400 tree saplings, including 80 Acer, 40 saplings from each of the following varieties :  Silver Birch, Small Leaved Lime and Rowan, 15 Hazel, Blackthorn and Dogwood and 155 European Oak. All purchased from Perrie Hale Forest Nursery just outside Honiton. It was appropriate that Brian helped plant these trees as he helped to Plant Knappy Woodlands with his father approximately 43 years ago ! Now a semi mature Woodland.

Some of the items required, including spiral plastic rabbit guards !

Tree saplings planted showing canes, clear spiral rabbit guards and a portion of turf removed to allow for watering and the removal of competing weeds. We will weed kill approximately 1 meter radius around the sapling, this will allow the sapling to grow 3 times quicker.

A view showing more of the saplings planted out and spaced approximately 2.5 meters apart we have fenced the perimeter with a 9ft deer fence which was erected by Andrew Tuckers team from Luppitt.

Andrew Tuckers team erecting the 9ft high Deer gate at the new entrance to the copse. According to the www.carbonfootprint.com web site each tree will absorb 1 tonne of carbon dioxide during its lifetime, so our copse will certainly help to reduce the Woodhayes carbon footprint by 400 tonnes over 100 years !

Ground Floor Block and Beam almost complete !

Roof to the first floor lean to is applied and hardcore and grit applied to the ground floor before concrete is poured. No need for block and beam here.

Another View of the ground floor area of the lean to part of the building taken from the main body of the building.

A view taken from the West showing most of the block and beam floors in place.

David's team spreading concrete over the black plastic liner for the basement floor.

Concrete laid on the ground floor of the Lean To, protruding soil pipes for the new toilet block in the foreground and the blue mains water pipe.

View of the completed basement waiting for the remaining block and beam floor which will be 

installed tomorrow.

Exterior of the basement wall, which is a cavity wall. The exterior walls will be rendered. In the distance you can see that part of the first floor joists have been installed into two bays.

Another view of the interior of the basement which will be used for storage. The next posting will show the erection and installation of the wooden framed panels which we expect to start in 2-3 weeks time.

Woodhayes: Lean-To erected and electricity supply installed

Woodhayes: Lean-To erected and electricity supply installed: We had good start to this week with some excellent sunny weather helping to dry up the quagmire of mud and clay, it is now very cold but at ...

Lean-To erected and electricity supply installed

We had good start to this week with some excellent sunny weather helping to dry up the quagmire of mud and clay, it is now very cold but at least it is not raining !

This is a view from the western end of the new building showing the partially erected lean-to element of the building. The white steel beams will be exposed inside the building.

Another view taken from the North eastern end of the building showing the lean-to, this end will be the entrance to the building.

This is one of the Western Power team,  finishing off the connection of the 3 phase electricity supply, rubber boots and very thick rubber gloves were used to make the connection !  

Another view, this time from the Eastern end  of the building showing the lean-to being erected.

Basement block work , curved beams and block and beam floor starts to be installed.

View of the basement that will be located under the gallery floor at the far westerly end.

Another view taken from the North western end showing the basement in relation to the rest of the main building.

View of the door opening for the basement.

Interior of the Basement.

Block work walls which will support block and beam floor.

Curved steel beams put in place today, coloured white as part of the beam will be exposed internally.

Another angel taken from the south westerly end showing curved beams in place.

A view showing the block and beam floor being assembled all done on the same day, excellent progress.

First Part of the Steel Structure goes Up

Hardwills from Beaminster have been hard at it, since Monday  three men have erected the main superstructure of the main building , just the ground and first floors so far. You will see we have decided to have the steel work painted in dark black to imitate the colour scheme of the original Dutch Barn.  The south facing stanchions will be exposed in front of the cladding.

This shot shows the extra long stanchions that start from the basement level, you are looking at the westerly gable end and you will see the house in the far distance beyond the eastern gable end.

This is the basement end, these two bays including the basement will form the basis of the new gallery.

This view is taken from the eastern end showing the side that the lean to will attach to. You can see that the mid has been an irritant to the steeple jacks. They have done very well considering.

This angle taken from the westerly gable end shows the ground floor beams which will carry the block and beam concrete floor. David Cloud will be building the block and beam basement and the block work walls 

and supports under the outer beams and the central parts of the floor beams in the coming week.

This is the view looking North west, showing the tubular supports that knit the whole structure together, they are included to help support the building from strong south westerly winds !