Build updates

March


  • Completed external tiling of Community Hall
  • Completed partitions & plaster-boarding
  • Completed ‘first fix’ (mechanical & electrical)
  • Installed lift (Basement to First Floor)
  • Completed T&G cladding in Hall
  • Commenced decorating
  • Commenced installing flooring finishes
  • Commenced installing joinery items

February


  • Installed external spiral stairs (Community Hall to garden)
  • Continued fitting-out phase & ‘first fix’ (mechanical, electrical & plumbing)
  • Completed garden ground-works
  • Installed air-source heat pump in garden
  • Volunteers cleared garden of bamboo etc.
  • Erected garden fences & rear gate

January


  • Completed installation of glazed ‘curtain walling’ to Community Hall (garden level)
  • Removal of hoarding & compound at front
  • Completed screeding in Basement area
  • Continued fitting-out phase & ‘first fix’ (mechanical, electrical & plumbing)
  • Installed or repaired all external windows
  • Floor build-up preparation on Ground Floor

December


  • Completed all roofing & leading works throughout – building now ‘watertight’
  • Completed internal stairs to all floors
  • Repaired & repointed Range A stonework
  • Screeding of floors in Basement
  • Continued fitting-out phase & ‘first fix’
  • Removed all remaining scaffolding at rear of building

November


  • Completed tiling roof of Community Hall
  • Replaced floor in ground floor of Main Range
  • Modified scaffolding at rear of building
  • Completed masonry, structural steelwork & floor structure works in Range B
  • Continued roof repairs to Range A
  • Started fit-out phase & ‘first fix’
  • Started installation of internal stairs

October



  • Removed rear cantilever & front scaffolding
  • Continued masonry, structural steelwork & floor structure works in Range B
  • Formed openings between old & new ranges
  • Rebuilt stone gable-end wall of Range A
  • Tiled walls and north roof of Community Hall
  • Installed insulation, underfloor heating & screed floor in Community Hall building

September


  • Continued roof repairs to Ranges A & Main
  • Forming new openings between original building and Community Hall
  • Felting and battening Community Hall roof
  • Installing wall and floor insulation in Hall
  • Continued masonry, structured steelwork & floor structure works in Range B
  • Clean front façade of building

August


  • Masonry, structural steelwork & floor structure in Ranges B & D continued
  • Adjusted the rear scaffolding arrangement
  • Installed joists, brick/block walls, studwork & roofing timbers in the new Community Hall
  • Installed structural steels & ground floor flooring in Range A
  • Roofing repair works on Range A continued

July


  • Completed substructure & groundworks
  • Installed steel frame for Community Hall
  • ‘Beam & Block’ floor of Community Hall built
  • Masonry, structural steel & floor structure work in Ranges B & D continued
  • Started roofing works – scaffolding, repairing Main Range chimneys & Range A roof
  • Rebuilt garden walls on south boundary

May/June


  • 38 x pile caps excavated and broken-down
  • Community Hall ground-beams excavated, shuttered, reinforced & concreted
  • Storm-water attenuation tank built in garden
  • Range A ground floor structure removed
  • Basement reinforcement & slabs completed
  • New masonry in Ranges B & D being built
  • Old bank vault door & 2 x safes removed

April


  • Removed high-level chimney breast
  • Completed underpinning external walls
  • Completed additional injection grouting & underpinning to strengthen Basement
  • Completed retaining walls in Basement
  • Installed 38 piles for Community Hall
  • Installed new drainage runs


Nov 2022 to March


  • Builders’ compound erected
  • Site welfare & office established
  • Works started 28th November 2022
  • Built access ramp to Basement
  • Bank vault demolished
  • Temporary steelwork installed
  • Demolition scaffolding built at rear
  • Injection grouting to stabilise ground
  • Internal demolition work completed
  • Demolition of rear extensions
  • Demolition scaffolding removed
  • First Floor steels & joists installed
  • Existing staircase removed
  • Basement floor slabs removed
  • Ground Floor structures removed
  • Underpinning of walls started