WEEK 6 - Day 23 Scaffolding and Labelling

Graham Sykes of William Anelay Ltd taking photographs inside Stove House 5 surrounded by the rising forest of scaffold poles.

Close up photographs of the upper roof trusses will be possible when the upper scaffold lifts and the working platforms are completed.

The scaffold platforms will enable us to walk within the roof space to record and label all the timbers of the roof.
The asbestos removal team will be able to reach the cement asbestos roof panels through the openings created by the removal of the plastic covered roof lights. This has be carried out carefully to avoid breaking the panels. They will be removed and bagged for controlled disposal. This work will start next week.











The vertical studding of the west end gable revealed carpenters marks pencilled onto the timbers. 'A1' is the first vertical timber of the gable end truss. Two pencil marks indicate where the first horizontal beam meets the truss.


The fifth vertical timber is pencil marked '5'.
Our numbering system was labelled up on our cad drawing last year, and prefixes each timber with a code letter and a sequential number. We also started at the south side of the west gable - so this vertical timber of Stove House 5 now has the label SH5 VT5.

Our labels are written in permanent ink on a plastic paper, securely fixed to each timber with coloured tie grips. Each truss will have a different coloured tie grip so that it can be easily be identified and located with the timber store.

You will see the racking and storage system in the timber store when the truses are taken down.