Posts Tagged ‘frame-raising’
in Armoury
November 10, 2010
Date of Kitchen Frame-Raising Moved Up to November 12
The raising of the Anderson Kitchen framing will now take place this Friday November 12. The team had originally planned to begin erecting the structure the middle of next week. However rainy weather is currently expected for much of next week, so the team has decided to raise the frame earlier than anticipated. On Friday the Historic Trades team will begin lifting the walls between 9 and 9:30 and expect to have all four walls erected and the ceiling joists in place by the end of the day. Although the frame-raising will take place earlier than anticipated, there will still be much to see at the site over the next several weeks, weather-permitting, as the carpenters frame out the rest of the kitchen. Please stop by the site to watch the kitchen reconstruction or follow along on the webcams!
Artist's rendering of the Anderson Kitchen from the south. Drawing by Peter Inker.
in Armoury
October 21, 2010
Rebuilding the Anderson Kitchen
The foundations of the kitchen chimney are leveled as additional brick courses are added.
The Armoury reconstruction project is now in full swing! Over the past few weeks the team has begun working on the kitchen, which will be the first building reconstructed. The original 18th-century brickwork for the chimney has been underpinned to ensure its stability when it is incorporated into the new building. Unlike the chimney base, the kitchen walls were “robbed out,” or removed for reuse in another structure during the late 18th or early 19th century. Over the next few weeks, the team will lay the remainder of kitchen foundation in preparation for the frame raising.
In addition to the work occurring at the new Armoury site, many of the Historic Trades sites around the Historic Area are manufacturing materials for the project. Since the summer, the brickyard has been making bricks, and in September they completed the first of two scheduled kiln firings this year (the second will occur in early December). The blacksmiths are manufacturing all of the hardware, such as hinges, locks, and nails, for the new buildings. The carpenters are assembling the frame for the kitchen in the yard adjacent to the joinery at the Ayscough House.
View of the kitchen framing from the webcam.
Several people have enquired about when the frame raising for the kitchen building will occur: it will be sometime during the first three weeks of November, with the second week of the month being the most likely week right now. The reason we are unable to pin down the exact date is that laying the brick foundations is a weather-dependent process. The shed covering the foundations has permitted work to continue during rainy conditions. However once the foundations are completed, the mortar will need at least a few days to harden before the soil around the foundations can be backfilled. Rain during that period will slow the drying process. We will monitor the progress and keep everyone posted as the schedule becomes clearer.
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