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

Friday, 22 July 2011

Week 16 - A little bit of pointing ...

Hello,

Very little visible structural progress happened this week leading up to the holidays.  That said, the pain staking job of chiseling out all the old pointing is pretty much complete inside and outside in readiness for new lime pointing in the near future.  The stonework looks amazing, especially in certain areas such as the west gable where the stone colour and patterns are basically a work of +150 year old art!  The stonework inside the mill, which is more random than external, looks pretty good also.

West Gable (pointing picked) - Looking Fab
South wall (in extension) - Kitchen will go here
Inside Mill - wall be left exposed and repointed
Note curve in the wall - this is where mill gearing used to rotate
Inside Mill, above where gearing used to be - this probably supported pulleys?
Wood too rotten to keep so we will replicate with Douglas Fir for a feature

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