Our project to refurbish the annexe into The Wellhouse started on 14th August 2025. You can follow our progress in the blog posts below. For more details on the background to the project please visit The Wellhouse project page
- The inshedibles!
Alongside the Wellhouse project we (mainly Dan!) having been running a project to reorganise our storage. You might have noticed the Marquee has been parked on the village green for the last few months… this is because our builders have been ‘reconfiguring’ our old storage area called the garage. So we now have our shiny… Read more: The inshedibles! - Floored!
I have learnt far too much about the process of flooring over the last few weeks… simply put we have been delayed due to it taking longer than anyone imagined for our floor to dry out despite the full range of heating, dehumidifiers and fans being applied…. But TODAY was different, today we applied glue… Read more: Floored! - Doors…
We now have our new door to the Wellhouse installed with a new ‘smartlock’: The new oak front door looks darker than we had intended but this is due to the ‘tratment’ required for warranty and we expect this will mellow. We have all our internal doors fitted and they have shiny new handles…. We… Read more: Doors… - Painting…
Painting is almost finished… this is our new look cloakroom… it is missing some minor things, like a sink but they are in plan… And this is the new entrance area, Brad is working on the units to be installed in the cloakroom and the kitchenette: And this is our main room… The only delay… Read more: Painting… - Fitting
We almost have a new front door…. well we have the frame in… and next week we well get the door and add the new smart lock: We have POWER! And now we juggling multiple ‘trades’… we have started painting and the heating team are in installing the air source heat pump – And… Read more: Fitting - Plastered and drying out….
Thursday 16th October and our plasterers have completed the internal skim coat…. Now we have to wait for the screed and the plaster to dry…. We have also completed the detail design work on the kitchenette … and cloakroom sink: Next week is ‘second fitting’… electrics, plumbing, skirting etc… plus we still have the external… Read more: Plastered and drying out…. - Colour
Time to decide on paint colours…. we reviewed a range of palettes with our potential users and settled on a small number to test… many thanks to Jo Kirk who advised us on potential options and combinations and to Jo Curtis who painted our walls with test samples…. we have homed in on Wattle V… Read more: Colour - Underfloor heating
Things are warming up now we have our underfloor heating pipework installed… The pipeworks covers all of the annexe from the entrance area into the cloakroom and main room: This picture from the main room out into the reception area highlights the difference in lighting now we have the skylight fitted… Next steps are to… Read more: Underfloor heating - Roofmore
Our roof has now been re-felted… and you can now see the raised area where we will install a new skylight for the entrance area: And the pitched roof to the rear has also been refelted along with new ridge tiles… We still have 2 items to finish on the roofing: Guttering Installation of roof… Read more: Roofmore - Roofless
Work has now started on insulating our roof, installing a new sky light for the entrance area and re-tiling the front and fixing a leak. OK, nothing to see here… underneath the tarpaulin is new 100mm insulation laid on top of the existing flat roof, awaiting a new felt finish. This picture show the retiling… Read more: Roofless - Plastering…
We are now in week 4 of the 12 week project and the team have made good progress: Completed most of the the internal plasterboarding and started plastering, we cant finish plastering yet as we still have to replace the windows: Finished first fit electrics… do you want another photo of wires (and buckets)? Started… Read more: Plastering… - Counting chickens…
Today marks the end of the first 3 weeks of our project of 12 weeks, we are 25% done. We had a meeting with Nick Carey-Thomas, our volunteer architect, and Sam Orbell, Flint Construction project manager and we reckon we are actually ahead of schedule…. but… everyday has a a new surprise waiting for us!… Read more: Counting chickens… - Shocking!
Another big step forward today as our electricians are onsite performing ‘first fit’ electrics…. So now we have cables dangling from the ceiling…. - Lots of battens
Almost 2 weeks into the build and we (well Flint) are fixing the battens on the walls to house the insulation layer before we plaster: And in the entrance area we have created the new raised floor that will enable an reception / waiting area. The picture above shows the raised floor as you enter,… Read more: Lots of battens - Insulating
1 week in and we have already started installing the insulation! And the new wall to create the storage area next to the room has been built: The wasp nest has been dealt with, the hidden chimney has been tested for asebestos – its ‘white’ so not so bad, and we have plan to remove… Read more: Insulating - Asbestos Wasps
Big progress over the last couple of days! Of course we had an asbestos survey before we started the build but when you knock down walls you still may find some… it looks like there was a hidden chimney… we will get samples tested to check if it really is asbestos but even if it… Read more: Asbestos Wasps - Breaking walls…
Well, we have started and the first big job is to knock a hole through the wall so that our new Wellhouse room will have an attached storage area… And the view from the other side… So 2 days into the 12 week project…. - Breaking ground….
After over a year of planning we have now entered ‘live’ stage of the The Wellhouse project…. Our building contractor, Flint Construction has brought forward the building start date from the 26th the the 14th August and now we have been rushing to be ready for them to start… We have to clear around the… Read more: Breaking ground….
