Originally Posted by
Dorsetman
You have done a greatjob, Jack.i am quite envious.
I have done a lot of rebuilding myself this year, but since I am quite a bit older than you I had to bring in professionals to do my really heavy work : for example I replaced wooden trestles supporing my centre bench with a series of concrete block walls, each built on a foundation, with a tonne of concrete in each foundation, but just moving all the plants around and doing the woodwork on the bench top etc, took all my spare time from doing the housework, cooking etc - my wife is a semi- invalid, unable to stand for more than a few minutes or walk more than 50 yards without my help - but then our combined ages add up to 175 years !
One of these fine days, when I have an hour or two to spare I'll post some pics of my rebuild.