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, 22 January 2012

Week 44 - Slates finished and a cosy bathroom floor!

Hello,

This week has seen the completion of the slating on the old Mill.  The south side was at last finished off and the original roof ridge stones were fixed back into place.  The roof looks really great and we're so glad we managed to reuse the old materials and keep it looking as it was.  Nothing much else has been happening outside other than the galvanised steel beams have arrived for the decking substructure.  The uprights have been installed and the remaining beams are stacked onsite.  Scale was always difficult to judge on this, but yes, the deck is going to be big!

Inside, again, not too much happened but the main job that was progressed was the installation of the underfloor heating in the upstairs family bathroom.  This will be covered with a cement screed, just like the ground floor process, and eventually tiled.  This heats on the same circuit as the rest of the underfloor heating downstairs.  No news on the glazing .... hope it's soon as it was very windy today and the forecast is for conditions to get worse this week!!

Until next time ....

All slating now finished!
Steel legs for decking fixed in place
Underfloor heating going into kids bathroom upstairs

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