RAVENSBARROW LODGE, Cartmel Fell

Ravensbarrow Lodge is now stripped of scaffolding and can shine in its full beauty as the external work is mainly finished.

The guttering is being completed with the down pipes in smart black.

Plasterboarding continues on the ground floor of the house and is now almost finished.

Here are a few pictures of the glass well lid we mentioned in our previous blog on Ravensbarrow Lodge.

The garage doors are now fitted and is free of scaffolding and complete externally, pictures of which will follow in a later blog.

MOUNTAIN FACTOR, Ambleside

We also started a new job at the Mountain Factor outdoor shop on Lake Rd, Ambleside (http://www.themountainfactor.com/), which has a great selection of quality clothing, footwear and accessories for leisure and professional walking. Due for completion before Easter we better get our skates on.

The next door area is an extension of an existing shop which will house Paramo brand products and will allow to expand other brands upstairs in the existing shop.

A knock through has been made from the main shop into the new room with a shop refurbishment in progress.

Here the new door opening goes in,through a 600mm masonry wall its all in a days work! Well, several actually. We did find an old fire place and flue which added to the dust and muck element, mmm not nice! But a temporary screen was set up next door to keep the fabric of the existing shop clean and tidy.

















We will let you know how we got on in a later blog.

VIOLET BANK, Hawkshead

Thanks to the mild weather we had in the last few weeks the work on Violet Bank is progressing nicely.

The roof frame on the small barn is now completed.

The original crooked beams are blending well with the new ones made of green oak and with all the timber work complete the construction is ready for slating.

In the pool room, the underpinning has been completed as well as the pool pre structure, but, as you can see, there is still a lot of work ahead.

The garage is starting to look smart thanks to the slate stone facing and two green oak heads above the doors. A two coarse slate tabling has been added above the oak lintels to protect them from the harsh weather. The roof is now felted and ready for slating.

At the back of the house, foundations are going in for the sun room.

The roof on the main building is coming off soon and as the original oak trusses are not savable, they will be replaced with new ones made of green oak.

This little structure next to the barn will become a biomass boiler housing that will also accommodate hot water storage tanks and solar panels.