Hi, I'm a novice and restoring an old church

[NotJustin]

Yes, I thought I worded that wrong, I didn't mean the roof and water. Haha.
More the breathing of the materials.

 

Thanks for the tip regarding the insulation. Good advice. We're definitely learning as we go along

 

[Thedreamer]

What type of ground floor has it got? The church in our community, Staffin, Isle of Skye is currently being renovated (Thomas Telford design) it had a suspended timber floor and was completely destroyed by dry rot.

 

A lot of work in that project.

 

 

[NotJustin]

It has a suspended timber floor. Very large floor area.

[Ferdinand]

What happened to that Communion Table? It looks quite formidable.

 

(Not that I'm offering).

 

I think that Freemasons tended to be aligned with whatever was the local establishment.

[NotJustin]

The communion table is still there. We're not intending to remove it, unlike the plans of the previous owner ?

[NotJustin]

For those who might be interested there is a Wikipedia page for the church:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochcarron_Old_Parish_Church

[NotJustin]

This is the ceiling, 26ft up to the rafters. We were thinking insulation wouldn't make a lot of difference, especially as that area is unheatable.

[ProDave]

The bottom left section of that roof is in a bad way.

 

The more I see of this, the more I am convinced roof off and full refurbishment adding insulation is the only way.  That is going to want scaffold inside and out I would expect to attend to the interior planking that I assume you want to keep.

 

I see little point in trying to do this piecemeal.  I would buy a few large tarpaulins and fix those over the roof to keep the weather out until you have the finds to do it properly and thoroughly.

[NotJustin]

Thanks for the advice. Yes, it's in a bad way. We were so close to sorting pre lockdown