In 2023 we bought a 120 year old railway station to renovate into our family home. Our channel tracks our renovation journey as we discover The Old Station's history and renovate the house and gardens. Our project has just started and is likely to take us years. As you will see we are learning as we go. We love hard work and research but are not builders or experts in renovation so we will make lots of mistakes. Your advice and guidance is welcome (and needed). We aim to post a video every week of our progress but please give us a little grace if we are a little late posting as we are renovating between our busy day jobs. We are Gil, Laura, Holly and Eva Subscribe to us to see our journey....
Seeing the demo guy leaning over to get around the stairs. If that is where you are keeping them, it would make more sense to put them on the outside wall and then have the passage in the middle where the ceiling is higher
Fantastic vid and demolition work. I guess you had a structural engineer advise what could be removed in order to maintain the integrity of the remaining building once all those interior floors were removed. Keep up the great content. Always look forward for them to drop.
PLEASE... please stop listening to or commenting about what the "haters" say . If you find a piece of furniture that works, then by all means use it to your advantage. And if the piece odffurniture does not work, trash it and continue on. You're all doing an amazing job and most of us are thrilled with the results your hard work is providing. Especially, congrats on the video. Thank you for bring us along on your adventure.
I might have just missed it, I’m sorry if I did, but have you decided on a floor plan? And if you could utilize the full length of the windows? It’s really amazing.
Never conceived as a two story building it looks like. A hanging mezzanine might afford some 2nd floor space while allowing the top windows to project light.
Hi, you’re absolutely right about it not being built as a two story. We’re going to have the upstairs floors under the level of the top windows so they will be exposed in the bedrooms.
I hope by the end of part 2 there is still a shell standing koz there ait much holding it up. BTW huv ye sent Gill away for couple o weeks tae Ibiza fur a wee holiday till the real work starts. 😂
Why no masks ?. In days gone by, asbestos was used in hundreds of things , especially building materials and paint etc. My friend died 2 weeks ago of Mesothelioma , a deadly form of asbestosis , and where he got it from , god only knows. Easy enough to stick a mask on surely .
I bet you guys are so excited a clean canvas l hope you take the ceiling above the windows as a joiner l would be biting at the bit to get back in there it’s looking good well done 👍
Boy, all of that de- struction certainly created a huge mess. Of course, leave it to me to wonder how many rats and bugs were displaced. Considering how many years the building was abandoned, there had to be some kind of criters in the insulation. Good thing everything is coming out.
The upstairs floor being previously lowered into the ceiling space of the lower floor, required the cutting and removal of sections of the roof truss tie beam. Those beams provided tension which kept roof weight loads from spreading the walls apart. The removed truss beams critical job was being done by the added floor structure run parallel to the truss. Now that you've removed the upstairs floor, the heavy slate roof is pushing out on walls supporting it, without structure to keep it in tension. Please have a structure specialist inspect the changes and sign-off on it. Good luck.
