Hello and welcome to our Jamieson family blog page! We have set up this site to allow us to record and share with friends and family our exploits as we (at long last) begin renovating the derelict water mill at Little Ennochie into what will hopefully be a fab and funky family house!! This has only taken us 3 1/2 years to get this far (and two bambinos!) .... so here's hoping this blog doesn't run for another 3 1/2 years !

As a bit of an intro, the mill is located on the outskirts of the village of Finzean, near Banchory in Aberdeenshire. The building sits on the banks of the river Feugh with great views of open fields and the hills, including Clachnaben. We have been slogging through Aberdeenshire planning and building warrants for what feels like forever, but we now have everything in place and the ball is rolling!

I will endevour to update this blog weekly with updates and photos so will see how that goes! Please keep watching and here's hoping this thing doesn't bankrupt us!

The Jamieson Family

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Week 5 - Roof Off!

Hello again bloggers.  A beautiful sunny day at Little Ennochie on Friday 22nd saw our first proper onsite meeting with architect and builder since work started in anger last month.  The office table was a pallet on the end of Stan's Manitou forks which proved very hand for raising and lowering drawings and notes!  We did however make our first error on this day......  a Friday afternoon, sunny, hot, not a breath of wind ... but we forgot the G&T's which would have made things much more civilised!  Things have progressed well over the last week thanks to the nice weather, including a good milestone with total removal of the old roof on Thursday!!

Someone has nicked our roof!!

A lovely day ... blue skies and no roof ....
A start has also been made to rainwater and domestic drain pipes into the Mill and also in the front.  These have been backfilled now.

Drain pipes installed at the front of the house

The old Mill hole has now been totally filled in also ... a bit sad, but necessary :-(

Goodbye Mill hole and lade :-(
An interesting view ... not much for the lever to operate now ....
The riverside extensions have also been marked off ahead of the foundation work next week.

This is a cool piccie that shows where the main riverside extension will sit

This is a picture taken standing in the TV/family room looking across to the entrance hall and office/utility extension ... what do you mean you can't see anything!?!
Inside the Mill now looks like some sort of Roman ruin!  Thankfully no lions around, just first signs of midges ... I'm not sure which ones would be worse!?!

Large roof light
Why are we doing this again!?
 Thanks for visiting .... until next week!

4 comments:

  1. Paul & Tracy, looking good, the photos definitely show things progressing. Keep up the blogging!!

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  2. Skitz you missed a great opportunity. When I saw White paint marking out the extension, you should have made a silhouette of a body.... Just to add to the blog tension.... Keep posting, great to see the progress.

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  3. Can't believe how different it looks already, I'm used to seeing it peppered with dead cats and empty beer bottles!

    Look as though a serious amount of undergrowth was cleared from round the back - did you get Greig to go banzai with the strimmer again?

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  4. Greig was offended that I have now destroyed his two years of careful and attentive gardening! Sorry G-man!! Did you check out in the pictures where the camping loo is? Now that is extreme dumping!

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