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.

WEEK 6 - Day 21 Timber Store Completed

We left the site on Thursday of last week with the temporary timber store starting to be erected. On the Friday and Saturday the construction team completed the main erection, leaving only the roller shutter doors and internal lighting to be installed today. Work can start today dismantling Stove House 5.

The scaffolding has been completed around the outside of the building giving access to the external boards at each of the gable ends.
After horrible weather over the week end we have a calm and sunny start to the day, but the forcast for the week is for showers and rain.
The ground surface between the store and Stove House 5 will be cleaned and covered in a membrane and stone giving a firm and clean surface to work from.
The scaffolding is being inserted within Stove House 5 to provide a safe working platform from which to begin dismantling the roof trusses. The work wiill commence on Monday 7 September with the removal of the asbestos sheeting that covers the roof.

This work will be captured on our time lapse camera and posted here and on Youtube.

The removal of the external cladding boards from eth east and west gables was completed today, and scaffoldong was started inside the Stove House rising through the warehouse floor. This will support working platforms below the roof structures and around the trusses from which we will dismantle the timber frame. Watch the work at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSvI97QibJo

WEEK 5 - Day 19 Ground Works, Scaffolding, Local News

To view how the site looked this morning link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4kHwgCSaVY
The preparations for erecting our temporary building store can be seen and there is a tour around and inside of Stove House 5. It is amazing that Henry Thompson only had this constructed in 1965, but it is to a much earlier design. Most of our work is targeted at recording and dismantling Stove House 5, so that it can be re-built on a new foundation. All materials will be stored and repaired for re-building in 2010. The revitalised building will house the Lion Salt Works Museum shop, cafe and interpretation centre. Much of the rest of this blog will detail how the dismantling will be carried out.

Site Manager, David Marsh gave a short tour to the editor of the Marston parish newsletter, Sarah Hubbard. Sarah has been passing on information about the start of our works to local residents through her monthly newsletter. To help her to understand the work she was given a close up view of the progress we have made. William Anelay Ltd are signed up to the Considerate Constructors Scheme - http://www.ccscheme.org.uk/ , so keeping our neighbours well informed is important to them, and helps to get feedback from locals who might have issues with aspects of the work. Our door is always open if anyone has any problems, or indeed if they want to tell us that we are exceeding their expectations.

WEEK 3 - Day 11 Scaffolding arrives

Scaffolding arrived this morning to begin supporting the outside of Stove House 5 and to provide a working platform from which to survey and dismantle the link walkway between Stove House 5 the main complex of Stove House 1 and 2. The first wagon of poles was waiting outside the site on Ollershaw Lane at 7am, ready for off loading. You can see the Salt Store on the opposite side of the road to the Lion Salt Works.

On site the first set of poles and planks are off loaded and moved to the Loading Bay area.

The first area to be scaffolded is this area at the north end of the Loading Bay to allow safe access to the overhead walkway which provides access from the warehouse floor of Stove House 5 to the main complex of earlier pan houses. This link walkway will be first building element to be dismantled, prior to the later dismantling of the whole of Stove House 5.

An asbestos survey is being undertaken to identify remaining asbestos on site and to prepare a method statement for safe removal.

Also being labelled is the collapsed headstock from over the first brine shaft of 1894.