April Update – Weeks 1-2


The first two weeks on site were hampered with appalling wet weather (unavoidable in Wales!) but never the less David took delivery of a small digger and dump truck and started excavating earth from around the top end of the barn. Being set on a hillside half of the top gable end is set into the hill so we are cutting into the slope revealing more of the barn and creating a level site around the whole building.



A large part of the initial ground works involves constructing a retaining wall to hold back the hillside and more importantly to channel surface water away into a storm drain.

David and Paul also removed all the internal stone walls and the hay loft and also lowered the ground level inside the barn by over a meter. One of my jobs was to carry the heaps of hay to outside, not a great job for a hay-fever sufferer!




One of the most important jobs in the first week was to dig a trench to get the spring water underground to site, so we now have water available on site.