Armybrat
06-16-2018, 09:41 AM
A friend of mine bought an 18th century house with attached barn near Chaillac, France several years ago. Stone walls are 2' thick, but he built a new 2 floor framed house inside the old one (on the left). Now he's building a larger one inside the barn (right) that will also be two floors plus a loft on the 3rd. Dude is using some pretty big oak timbers for the frame & flooring and cinder block for the interior walls.
We were supposed to stay in the new barn house when visiting next month, but it looks like we'll be in a local B&B instead. Just the 1st ground floor has been framed in and this load is the material to start framing the 2nd level. Of course he had to replace the 250 year old roof on both sides. His crew used a mixture of the old roof tiles & new ones. A lot of point & tuck work was done on the exterior & interior stone walls:
http://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vegasexperts/download/file.php?id=1639&mode=view
http://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vegasexperts/download/file.php?id=1638&mode=view
We were supposed to stay in the new barn house when visiting next month, but it looks like we'll be in a local B&B instead. Just the 1st ground floor has been framed in and this load is the material to start framing the 2nd level. Of course he had to replace the 250 year old roof on both sides. His crew used a mixture of the old roof tiles & new ones. A lot of point & tuck work was done on the exterior & interior stone walls:
http://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vegasexperts/download/file.php?id=1639&mode=view
http://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vegasexperts/download/file.php?id=1638&mode=view