Cab stripped down ready for paint

Nissen Hut Demolition

 Site cleared of old wooden sheds and a small glass house.

 The following  morning - a beautiful day that ends in rain. Other teams dismantling their huts.

 First layer off, you can clearly see the inner ribs and the tension retaining wire.

 Neil gets to base camp 2.

All of the outer skin removed showing the horizontal bolt on beams. Thanks to Sam, Neil, Darren, Jim, Jacob, Elliot, Maxine, Julia and Lisa for their mammoth effort.
Narford scaffolding to the the rescue, thanks to Chris and Paul - without these guys we just had a mass of scrap metal!!! I still cant believe the building  compacts down so well, Ikea watch this space!!!!

Welcome Steve!

There's a new but old school member of OCD with a brand new T2c!

Still aircooled through and through :-)

Obsessive Canalboat Disorder pt VI

It's no nissen hut, but this static caravan will do for kipping in while fitting out the barge this summer ;)

Panorama of the new mooring - zoom in for full effect (Gotta love Android phones!)

Thanks to all who helped out loading the ballast!

10 packs of 72 blocks arrive...

One section left!

Almost done chaps!

More photos and videos here:- https://plus.google.com/photos/100411568698032537543/albums/5864045571269278369?authkey=CMiB0oXtvciaWQ

Nissen Hut

Look what we just bought off of Ebay. A large kitchen Nissen Hut from WWII 24x55 foot with more than enough height!! Both a pottery and a workshop.

 This was the type that we bid on but on arrival we found this!!!!

 As you can see the kitchen is taller and wider than the standard but not as large as the Romney (Hanger) type hut.

 his is going to be a fantastic and light and interesting and large space for a decent budget.....still working out the details.

 The fridge room.

 The old kitchen, next doors hut was the mess hall.

This one was already sold when we got there, and the owner was already dismantling. First skin off is nailed to the inner battens, which are all solid, inner skin is laid on to ribs and then tethered down with wire!! Fantastically simple even the ribs bolt together in sections. There is a gap of about 2 inches between skins so it will be easy to make air tight and insulated!!