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, 20 April 2012

Week 56 - Back to work after the holidays! The home stretch?!

Hi everyone,

With the easter holidays now behind us, everyone pretty much back to work onsite now.  There were quite a few work fronts going on this week.  Inside the guys continued with the kitchen installation and bathrooms.  Outside the aluminium guttering was starting to be fitted, as were the decking beams in readiness for the composite deck boards going down (all the aluminium balustrade posts were fitted two weeks previous).  Foundation and drainage channel work also progressed on the pellet store and entrance walkway respectively.  The latter was getting set in readiness for our Caithness slate tiles arriving soon which will cover the floor in hall and provide slabs for walkway to front door (i.e. same inside and out).

We had to cover the wood in the entrance hallway this week as we still don't have a delivery date for the structural glass so we don't want the wood getting damaged by continued exposure to the elements.  Hope it will turn up soon as we need to get fully water tight and moved in at the end of May! We have no choice now as our rental property went up for sale this week .... panic stations, argghhh!!

Kitchen starting to take shape
Another angle taken from the dining area
Looking from dining space out to the (soon to be) decked area 
Glass front now on the fully installed Hwam stove ... I love this!!
Beams getting fitted onto steel deck substructure 
Nice view back to the house
Aluminium guttering pipes
Concrete now poured and set for the pellet store foundations and floor
Cementing in the drainage channels at the front door
Looking towards the "soon" to be front door and glazed hall

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