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, 15 January 2012

Week 43 - Back to work ... getting the slates on!

Hi folks,

Well the first full working week of 2012 is behind us and I’m pleased to say we’re finally back to work on site!  We ventured down to site this afternoon with the kids, and despite being a little chilly!, it was a really beautiful winter sunny day with amazing light over the hills.  Days like this make us feel so lucky.

Some of the storm damage of the last few weeks has been repaired and we’ve made a start to returning the old Scots slates on the Mill’s south roof.  The old slates again really look the part.  Hopefully the Mill roof will be fully watertight in the next few days.

On the outside walls, the extensions have all been finished/repaired with green weatherproofing sheets and fitted with wooden batons that the larch cladding will finally be fixed too.  I don’t think we’ll be putting the cladding on until the weather improves slightly so that it remains in good nick for when we move in.

This week we need to decide where the biomass boiler will go.  As we changed from an air source to biomass at the last minute (my fault!), this means we have to juggle things around in the store and plant rooms to get everything to fit best.  Self builder 101 – don’t make changes once you start building!  We’re on revision #46 :-) !!


Bye for now!


Slates started on the South facing Mill roof (works bottom - up)

Extensions getting ready for cladding 
This picture looks cold ... because it was cold!!
Abbey hooking up the plumbing!
Light shining into the Mill hallway ... fab, as is the view from landing
Looking along the main extension and down the river
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3 comments:

  1. Wouter16 January 2012 at 14:15

    Hello Paul & Tracy,

    Congratulations with your blog: it really gives an insight in the troubles getting a landmark building refubrished into a levely home

    Kind regards,

    Wouter

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  2. JayJay197419 January 2012 at 23:06

    Thanks Wouter! So glad we did this as it has kept a great record for us to look back on, even over this relatively short period of time. Certainly learned a lot along the way! Looking forward to getting over the finish line now though!!

    All the best,
    Paul and Tracy

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    1. Wouter26 January 2012 at 00:08

      I'm sure you'l be enjoying the stunning river (Feugh isn't it?) view on the terrace deck this summer, althouf if I speak for myself: there's always something else to do but maybe that's because I'm doing real estate development as a living and can't stopdoing so when at home...

      Kind regards...


      Wouter

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