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

Monday, 9 May 2011

Week 7 - Big foundations please!!

Hello Folks,

Welcome to our blog for Week 7!  A wee bit delayed but hay-ho, good things come to those who wait!  The past week has seen some serious progress on the foundation walls for the extensions.  These have grown up out of the pad foundations and are starting to look the business.  You can really get a feel now for the building scale, shape and height of the finished floor levels above the Feugh.

Let the mother of all Lego builds begin!
Blocks starting to get to position - another view
By mid-week, in the immortal words of Tommy Cooper ... just like that!
The east part of the extension is taking shape too
This is the support area for the fireplace ... yes, it's a biggie!
Peek-a-boo ... now that is a WALL old Pa is checking out

It hasn't all been sunshine, we did have terrible rain Sat/Sun, which meant the Feugh got angry pretty quickly!  All that pre-planning flood modelling was fine, but I'm just glad we've got the mother of all retaining walls and foundations on the extension so we can enjoy the G&T's with the fishing rods dangling knowing we're sitting on something akin to Fort Knox.  P.S. for the record, the building footprint is designed to be well out with the 200year (+ 20% for climate change) flood plain!!

an angry Feugh (around 4:30pm on 8th May 2011)

Inside the mill, the structural supports and framework are starting to go up for the first floor.  These are designed to be reassuringly robust and will be utilising steel beams and timber.

First steel beams arrive on site
A view from the master en-suite ... looking into the main / upstairs bedroom

The lintel and supports above the front facing window in the main bedroom

Another large support beam running above the guest bedroom ... hopefully stronger than a Stewart Milne Kepplestone flat floor!!

Last but not least, our busy new site worker Abbey is making her mark!!

A giant sand pit - she loved it
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  1. Rooney11 May 2011 at 09:21

    It's beginning to feel like an episode of Grand Designs now - the foundations look 'strong like bull'.

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