Day 2 Lunchtime

A quiet start to the day did'nt last long. Bang! suddenly the place is swarming with different people - Electricians, Heating specialists the lot.

There are a number of different strands to our project and many of these will be followed at the same time by different teams so these folks were all doing preparatory work. Again, there is no messing about, things that were of utmost importance to us not 2 days ago, the boiler, the main fuse box and so on are relegated to nothing status in an instant.

One novelty is a Brummie bloke turning up in a suit to look at the heating pipes. Just to clear up any mis-understanding, it's not the fact he's a Brummie and wearing a suit ( for all you Brummie's reading) its the fact that he was wearing a suit at all in that environment which struck me as being on the ambitious side. 'Rags chic' rules at the moment in the midst of the dirt.

One man come through to get some help finding out where a particular water pipe leads to. He shows me and my immediate thought, which I don't verbalise, is that it was probably easier for Captain Cook to find Australia than it will be for us to trace this pipe back. 'Unique' would be a kind description of our water piping. We call the expert and Mark identifies it as a gas pipe, not water, probably installed when British Gas discovered that part of the church was getting its gas for free (but thats another story).

Out of the blue a man arrives looking for the organ pipes. This is good news, if a little random, as we were unsure how we were going to dispose of these, so we load them on - a lot more than he expected! He leaves and it turns out that he came from a business connected to Yeldall manor and the pipes will be used to make furniture rather than scrapped - good.

Incidentally a reasonable amount of the items that had to be removed have found new homes. All the pews were sold to people from church, large chunks of the organ went to various organ building projects across the country and some of the fancy woodwork round the organ went down Cumberland road where it is being turned in to a four poster bed!
Some of the smaller pieces were turned in to chopping boards and a lot of the 'scrap' wood went to Yeldall again to be turned in to patio tables.
We only used one skip in total and that is pretty good.