Evening everyone, and welcome to this weekend’s update. Its been the Wartime Weekend and it has been a hot one! We’ve been carrying on with work on the Pipe while the 1940’s was happening around us.
Nick and Thomas started by removing the old rotten floor. More and more holes started appearing in this as we were walking on it to fix the East side doors, so it has been decided its time for the floor to go!
Very quickly all the floor was out and piled up. The underframe got its customary chipping and scraping.
Thomas and Tom continued the chipping, scarping and hoovering this morning, prior to a coat of paint.
Nick, Dan, Mark and Oliver de-nailed planks for me to then cut to down in length to drop into the floor.
At the end of the day we have around one quarter of the floor in the Pipe, which some more planks to lay in once they’ve been rebated.
That about wraps up this week, next week we’ll complete the floor in the wagon and then next step will be to move onto the other 2 doors which are sorely in need of some TLC. See you then!