Reclaimed Yards
Submitted by Badger on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 13:18
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
There is one on the main Sarnano to Urbisaglia/ Loro Piceno main road, but do not know how extensive the product range is for reclaimed stock. It is on the L/H side near to a timber merchants on the right. Maybe someone else can come up with something nearer to you, as have never looked in the one above.
Thanks a lot - will try
Submitted by hazy on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 07:33
In reply to Reclaimed Yards by Badger
hi
Submitted by sebastiano on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 10:36
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
When we had our restoration started we started to go down this road.However it emerged that,for example of the old doors we had already existant in the building many were not good and would have required excessively extensive restoral work that their quality did not justify.the door "hole " sizes in the meantime had already changed during the work.As a result we opted for new solid wood internal doors made to measure but made to traditional style also with hinges handles etc.this resulted to be much more pratical,far less expensive and functional.As far as old tiles bricks etc were concerned ,we already had a lot but not enough.With hindsight we can say we are pleased to have been able to complete these jobs with old bricks and tiles but it proved very costly( old pianelle for example cost around twice the price of more recent ones.The other problem is finding a sufficient quantity of the SAME kind even in the old days there were lots of variants not always compatible with each other.We did not require old beams because we already had them, but bear in mind there could be structural/quality/size issues involved with beams which would have to be argued out with your geometra and definitely with your builders who would/will complain heavily about having to use old beams (to do with the fact that they aren't "even" to lay on cross beams and pianelle etc which makes the task longer and more complex as they would have to cut old wood to make wedges where the beams are not flush to the upper surface.The old windows were ripped out and burnt.the wood was pretty well finished and of poor original quality.we had traditional windows of the same size made in quality hard wood with heavy duty double glazing units ( essential for a minimum of heating efficiency)they look perfectly in keeping.Anyway the bottom line is talk thru what would be feasable with your geometra or architect to find out what you can do resonably and what would be folly to attempt,good luck. H
Echo what Sebastiano has said
Submitted by jepsonclough on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 14:36
In reply to hi by sebastiano
We too wanted to go down the reuse / recycle route but it turned out to be impractical - doors and window frames were not in good enough condition, the floor tiles were too thick to use with the underfloor heating and it would have been incredibly expensive to clean them for reuse, getting enough of the right materials wasn't practical and so on. We thought of getting reclaimes doors for the outbuilding by the pool but the cost was prohibitive. In the end we had reclaimed beams, we resued most of the floor tiles for paths outside, had new windows and doors made in traditional style and so on. We did manage to reuse part of the wooden cow stalls as mantles over the fireplaces and have exposed stone in all the upstaris rooms, exposed beams in all the rooms and so on. Best advice is to speak to your geometra and to look at the costs of the variosu options. Chris
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