Renovations Diary: 23rd August, 2019
It’s easier for you to come down and see the progress rather than try to explain it. We cannot do it enough justice to be perfectly honest. The tradespeople and volunteers have really put in a shift this week to make a giant step forward.
The main parts of the bar have been built, including using the 300 years old cedar timber for the top. It was prepped, cut and installed. Finally a layer of oil has been added with further coats later today. The beer pumps have been installed and the lines are going in.
The bar carcass
![Lino Len and Ian dreaming of a future beer](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-01.jpg)
Preparing to cut the cedar
![Pete the builder and John Symon measuring it out](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-02.jpg)
Bar top now added
![Bar starting to take shape](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-03.jpg)
Bar almost there
![Before final bar pumps and equipment was added](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-04.jpg)
You may have seen on Facebook that Lino Len and the team have laid the oak flooring. Also Lino and Barney laid the floor behind the bar itself. Unfortunately a lot of it is covered for now until all the other work has been completed.
The new floor
![Stacks of boxes to opened and laid](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-05.jpg)
Volunteers laying the floor
![Intense concentration](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-09.jpg)
Lino Len and Barney
![Doing the centre line first](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-06.jpg)
Cutting a fiddly corner
![Trevor and Ian working ona tricky corner](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-10.jpg)
Lino Len laying the floor
![Once going, Len lays the floor quickly](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-07.jpg)
Finishing the floor
![Outside the ladies toilet](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-11.jpg)
Levelling the floor
![Outside the gents](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-08.jpg)
Laying behind the bar
![Lino in action](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-12.jpg)
The Gents is no longer a storeroom and the floor tiling started. Tony has been beavering away all day on it and fingers crossed, he should finish it tonight. That allows the plumbers and electricians to finish it in the next week or so.
Tony laying tiles
![In the gents toilet](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-13.jpg)
Nearly finished
![Just to do the difficult cuts at the toilet itself](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-14.jpg)
Bar top now added
![Bar starting to take shape](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-15.jpg)
A drainage specialist came on Wednesday and has successfully cleared the main drains. Kelvin has been in today and cleaned the portaloos out ready for the weekend.
We decided to keep one of the chimney breasts as brick, the same as the feature walls. The guys dug out all the old mortar and prepped the bricks. Alan and Gerry then came in and did the pointing to make it look the same as the other walls.
Showing the new flooring
![Before it gets covered up to protect it](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-16.jpg)
Ready for pointing
![All the old mortar has been removed](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-17.jpg)
After repointing
![By Alan and Gerry](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-18.jpg)
Still a way to go with it but we do have fire surround already. This should be a working fireplace when it is complete and add a warm feeling to the bar as well as looking fabulous.
Here are some other photos taken during the week.
Emergency exit sign going up
![Frank, one of our electricians](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-19.jpg)
More painting by Izzy
![Before the floor goes down](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-20.jpg)
Plastering a chimney
![Ian finishing the last of the chimneyse](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-21.jpg)
Temp bar was set up (again)
![Was required when the bar being built](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-22.jpg)
All the rubbish was moved
![No big yellow bags any more](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-23.jpg)
More painting by Liz
![Just before the bar opened on Saturday](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-24.jpg)
Collecting a donated piano
![In the back of the school van](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-25.jpg)
Checking the piano out
![Lexie and Richard](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-26.jpg)
Bar just before opening
![Saturday morning required everything to be moved back into the bar](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-27.jpg)
Ian marking out his spot
![Demonstrating one of the new stools](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-28.jpg)
Platerboarding in the school
![wehere the mini-kitchen will go](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-29.jpg)
Laying the floor
![At the front door](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-30.jpg)
Bar just before opening
![Saturday morning](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-31.jpg)
Behind the new bar
![Just before opening](images2/renovationdiary/past-20190823/20190823-32.jpg)