Description:
The project involved major fabric repairs to the roofs, external masonry and joinery of the original mill building and comprehensive internal repairs to all elements of the buildings structure, internal finishes, detail components such as machinery metalwork and fixings, internal joinery and decorations. The most difficult and complex challenge was posed by the building's dangerous levels of chemical contamination left by its use as a colour mixing works. This meant that internal works had to be phased to allow the cleaning and containment of the contamination followed by the internal conversion works as a second phase. The archaeology, internal fabric repairs to the original primary floor beams and secondary structure, the repairs to the original internal plasters and joinery all had to be completed with the workforce using full contamination PPE and all works requiring fixings into the contaminated primary fabric had to be completed in the first phase.