Door openings in PMR gîte

As I've previously shared in other posts, in the PMR gîte we are creating two new openings in the stone walls. The first will connect the room above the workshop with the old games room, which will be the new bedrooms and bathrooms. The second will connect the workshop with the kitchen. The upstairs doorway will be standard size but the downstairs one will be 2mx2m, with no door. 

They started on the first floor as we needed to remove the staircase in the workshop for the ground floor opening and that was their only access to the first floor. They turned up 3 days early which caused a lot of panic as the guys putting in the new sewage pipes had not even started in front of the gîte so had to change their plans. On the flip side, the guys doing the sewage pipes started two weeks late so it should never have been an issue.

They used a manitou (below) to remove all the stone and also lift the new corner stone and new oak lintels into the first floor through the window.

 


This is from today (Monday) with the corner stones nearly finished and the 2 new oak lintels in place. The wall is so thick it needs two lintels side by side.


The eagle eyed ones will notice the room above the workshop is about 50cm above the floor level of the old games room where we put in the new joists and plywood floor base. We will build a small staircase joining the two floors.

This photo shows the staircase we removed today from the workshop so they can start on the bigger opening in the coming days.



Comments

  1. Caroline7 September 2020 at 19:52

    I need to see it in person, finding it difficult to get my bearings - love the stonework and lintel!

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