Getting down to the dirty work.

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It's good to swing the hammer around again.





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And believe me, it needs a lot of hammering.

I wrote about getting a few days of work yesterday and just as i had hoped. The phone rang yesterday evening and the man that i had met in the pub on Xmas eve rang me to do some work.

Now normally when i make drunken promises in the pub i don't have to follow through on them but this man took me at my word and got my number. I was happy to do it and get out of the house for a while.

This picture above doesn't give the full scale of the pub but i'll take a few more tomorrow.

Now bear in mind that i have no construction history or practise at all but it's hard to get workers at the moment. All the polish are gone, all the good ones have trades and all the ones not working are the ones that don't work. People are begging for staff at the moment so he had to take what he could get.

The pub is very, very rural. Like really rural.

It was build in 1890 and hasn't been used in twenty years for business. It also had a shop as part of the building when it was open last but that is going too. I though that i would just be moving a little furniture out to the skip but this place needs a full demolition job down to the walls themselves.

The building is massive with a shop, pub, lounge, kitchen, 6 rooms, stores and sheds out the back. All in a terrible state of repair.

This could take weeks just to clear the building and many months to make it useable.

It should be great fun. I started off the day breaking old furniture and clearing out all of the old timber.

Then I had to strip a wall of all of it's tiles. That took a while with a hammer and chisel. We moved all of the old appliances outside and found a few secret corners of the building like a staircase in behind the walls and a safe at the top of it. Nothing in it unfortunately.

Then the best part of the day.

They actually let me knock a full partition wall. It was some fun. Sledgehammer and crowbar at it for a couple of hours. The last time that i put a hole through the wall of a pub they called the police and gave me a life time ban from the place. This time they are paying me for it.

We did a few more small bits for the evening but nothing major.

I'm back there again tomorrow and will show you all the scope of the job ahead of us.

Lots more photos and updates as i get my hands dirty for a few more days at least. It feels good after sitting on front of the computer for the past few weeks.



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Sounds like a great day and a great project and a great way to get into it!

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Looking forward to it.
I'll keep going with it for the next while anyway. Renovating a pub is lots of fun for me.

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I can imagine, I've always fancied doing something like this - I assume you don't work in construction? So I guess working with people who know what they're doing helps, personally that's my favourite way to build something - get a professional in and work with them.

If i try and do this kind of thing on my own I just end up spending twice as long on YouTube figuring out what I should be doing, and then do a crap job anyway.

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I assume you don't work in construction?

No experience what so ever. And this is a big job. It's one of those buildings that gets worse and worse as you dig into it. It's great fun really.

The guy who bought it has construction experience which is great as he will need to do a lot of the work himself or it would cost a fortune to fix it.

I'm just doing the grunt work and going wherever he points. It is fascinating to help though and uncover hidden doorways from 100 years ago and dig out the original fireplace. We even found a safe buried under the stairs.

No money though.

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whats the plan for the building @niallon11 ?

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Pub, games room and accommodation for Airbnb. It's a big building so looking at 6 to 8 apartments.

There is no official plans yet but we are going to spend a long time gutting it out.

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Outside the view of the building does not actually makes the building look massive outside. I think it's the angle of the pictures taken

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There will be more photos tomorrow. This was just the angle by the front door.

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Fulltime job or just partly random job? :P

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Just random one for now.
It's a nice change of pace and will keep me going for a few weeks/months.

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Ye, I read your othee post about that after this one :D

Sounds fun dude! :D

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