nearly 100 years and almost all those teeth! The problem is the almost .... the chimney which dominates the workshop is sick: a crack turf it defaces the body.
Concerned for years, and tired of constantly responding to the same question: "and it will not fall?" Lack of finance and know the appropriate person to auscultate the old lady, we let the time and Storms happen.
is chance and friendship (thank you the band The Collectors), which allowed us to trace the man who knows better than anyone the top of the point of much of the churches of France who break the mouth: I have appointed: Mr. Nicolas Gaudé.
I had met years earlier at the submarine base in Bordeaux when he was crawling through the underground of the latter, in the footsteps of punk's most daring. I was making holes in concrete slabs endless fear of falling on an old stock of ammunition ...
So this very brave man (and that causes hair loss consequent to his insurer) to whom we gave the old lady. After reassembling
duct its twenty meters from the inside and threw a few stones from the top of the building (you still have it enjoys that kind of person!) and is descended from the outside giving free rein to his absolute passion: photography cracks.
after diagnosis (to be validated by a control office) approached the solution is divided into two hypotheses: either decapitated on 3-meter summit of the building, it is a fact some masonry altitude eating grannies in laying ten hours.
techniques will be outside of strapping to provide a scaffold inside and outside on the top and use a bucket for some operations.
the way, taking care to change the inner scale which is the cause of the damage by dilatation under the effect of iron rust (5 million pounds of thrust per cm2) and we will be able to draw a little something about this top ...
You understand, we would prefer the second option. There were four chimneys in the words such as this one near the middle of last century. It only remains as a witness the beginning of the intensive exploitation of space as Landes jungle. Aware of the deep gash that this operation generated the heart of the Landes pastoral culture, we would, out of respect for the memory of this one left standing this remnant; ... and our dear departed brick industrial era. The collective
AIAA decided to delve into the history of this building that haunts our nights and haunt us in our turn. Crossing points for people crossing the busy area, factory crates, resin distillery, paper mill schedule, places of business of lime and wood ... Many legends and stories through this place. That so many tracks on which we are looking for documents, photos, testimonials ....
If the construction is dated approximately of 1910/1912; you expect that you end up next year to celebrate it with dignity.
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ps: for those to whom this history is staggering, think of those who built ...