First week back for the builders and the main job for the week was to start the long awaited rebuild of the large opening that was made in the Mill's south wall for our new doorway between old and new. This is the only opening we are enlarging in the entire old structure. The plan was to build the new doorway side walls out in reclaimed "seaton" red brick. This method and material was used throughout Aberdeenshire in old granite buildings and was used a lot in the old Finzean sawmills upstream from us - it was basically a cheaper method of creating detailed framing and corners than cutting granite blocks. It looks pretty fab. The lintels above are made from chunky sections of Douglas Fir. The stonework above the opening is getting rebuilt in the original granite blocks that were recovered and set aside. Once this scope is complete, we can get cracking with putting the steel beams and roof on the extension!
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| Enlarged opening from old to new! |
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