Je suis furieux de voir un si bel ouvrage jeté aux ordures. Il ne nous reste que les yeux pour pleurer et ces magnifiques images pour nous rappeler que le fric finit pratiquement toujours par l'emporter...
Mon dieu comme j'ai pleuré en regardant cette vidéo émouvante. Et dire que demain les grues vont commencer à le détruire. Pour moi ce château est une perle de notre patrimoine belge qu'on n'a pas su protéger. Je suis vraiment dégoûtée et triste. 😢
Bonjour, désolée je pense que j'ai zappé votre commentaire et ce n'est que maintenant que je vois votre demande. Si je peux encore vous aider n'hésitez pas à me le dire. Mille excuses.
Very sadly, once water gets in the stonework, the freezing action expands the stonework where ever the freezing occurs. The stone no matter how heavy is wrenched apart by ice. This is happening ever winter and a little bit at a time. In order to restore this house (which is still possible), it would to first be dried out by building a superstructure over the entire house to shelter it from all precipitation. Drape it all in canvas and turn on 8 or 9 salamanders on low and just go away for a couple months. Whilst that’s going on completely Clear away all brush leaving only the trees that might work into the final plan. Cut all vines and trees around the foundation and paint a poison solution on the cut vines and tree trunks. While that’s going on, use a cherry picker to survey the roof line. Take tons of pics and take every measurement (only from the cherry picker platform) do not trust the structure whatsoever….taking measurements and carefully removing roof ornaments to either reuse or refabricate. Then remove slates….all done from the carriage. The remove rafters to also refaricate. Remove decorative stonework: First number each cut block with pray painted on numbers. Take multiple photographs of these (in place stones). Then begin to dismantle so to easily reset later. This will take months just to do what I’ve made a list of. All the walls and structure need to be braced now that the grounds are cleared up and there’s room to set up such structuring. Once a firm and approved of structure is builded, then begin the repointing. The repointing must be done in order. Start at the bottle….in the basement. Repointing will involve removing all loose mortar that has lost its integrity. Mortar is to be fully integral with the lay of the stonework. As the Masons work their way up, there will be more damage. When mortar is carefully removed, one can inject an epoxy mortar under pressure. This will creep into every crevasse in the stonework where one cannot see. When doing this work, always allow two days for the mortar to set up or catalyze before continuing. One then can go to an alternate section and work on it. This must done on both sides of the wall. The injections are most important..as they must join each other so be integral. An injection every meter or less. Once all this is completed thoroughly and with the utmost care, then the dismantling of the house of any surviving woodwork can be extracted. Window frames can be removed and sent off to the to reproduce exactly, then returned as they’re completed and set back into the wall. While the these windows were removed, the stonework there too will have to examined and repointed. All the while this is going on, new rafters can be replaced and such things as these all attended to. The goal here is to have the entire house what’re proofed and glazed but the end of Autumn. The floors are rudimentarily complete for all the Tradesmen to complete or continue their own tasks. The Winter can be spent recreating the very complex roof. All this is still taking place under the superstructure. The roof will involve slate, copper, zinc, lead, and if the owner can afford it, he may use monel. The roof in this case should be structured so whereby it weight is distributed on the ballon structure of the house itself. Not all on the outer walls….though they take weight, that weight must be counter balanced upon the inner wood structure and “rest” on the walls. The interior structure can be retrofitted with a steel structure if the structural engineers order it so. This too would solve all the problems of distributed weight issues. Warning: Stone doesn’t sage or give notice to its failing or allowing you time to escape. A stone collapse is immediate, and deadly to all beneath it. That tower needs to to be surveyed first and foremost. It may be removed and rebuilded entirely from scratch. I think $20,000,000,000. Would do the trick. Thank you vandals. Think of it? What if all the vandals over the years patched the roof, repaired The window panes, and kept the weeds and vines at bay. The effort it takes to destroy a property is the same effort if less to maintain it. I will recall Whitemarsh Hall and it’s systemic destruction by the over a twenty year period. As a boy, I would play there and even brought my dust pan and brush and spray cleaner in my nap sack on my bicycle and cleaned what I was able to reach, only to find that it too was again messed up a week later. It was feudal. The one day, I came upon men who were up on the high roof, and peeling off the copper standing seam roof liken to opening a Sardine can, and then two men would hoist up the copper role and throw it over the limestone balustrade and the roll crashed to the ground where once parterres were meticulously manicured. It was disgusting. An House is a sacred place. It was once. A warm loving home once where Christmas was rejoiced, and music played, and children were created and born into the world. Who ever fixes up this magnificent pile will surely be an honor in the land for centuries to come. God Willing
Thank you. RIP Miranda forever, Noisy 🙏
I really enjoyed the music thank you R.L.
That is so beautiful! Thank you!Noisy forever ♡♥♡♥
Je suis furieux de voir un si bel ouvrage jeté aux ordures. Il ne nous reste que les yeux pour pleurer et ces magnifiques images pour nous rappeler que le fric finit pratiquement toujours par l'emporter...
Photographie Superbe et la sélection de la musique. Dommage, toujours dans notre esprit ....
nice one i loved visiting this place
Un reportage qui prend aux tripes quand ont connait le château et que l'ont y a séjourné
WWWWOOOOOO
Pour vous tous ma belle Viviane
qui chante cette music , j'adore .merci d'avance. Sonia
Mon dieu comme j'ai pleuré en regardant cette vidéo émouvante. Et dire que demain les grues vont commencer à le détruire. Pour moi ce château est une perle de notre patrimoine belge qu'on n'a pas su protéger. Je suis vraiment dégoûtée et triste. 😢
Magnifique ! Mais Noisy n'est pas encore mort, il survivra ;-)
Je sais qu'il survivra
Bonjour , est il possible de vous contacter à propos du reportage? Love Noisy
Bonjour, désolée je pense que j'ai zappé votre commentaire et ce n'est que maintenant que je vois votre demande. Si je peux encore vous aider n'hésitez pas à me le dire. Mille excuses.
This is a beautiful castle
"You raise me up" Josh Groban
Very sadly, once water gets in the stonework, the freezing action expands the stonework where ever the freezing occurs. The stone no matter how heavy is wrenched apart by ice. This is happening ever winter and a little bit at a time. In order to restore this house (which is still possible), it would to first be dried out by building a superstructure over the entire house to shelter it from all precipitation. Drape it all in canvas and turn on 8 or 9 salamanders on low and just go away for a couple months. Whilst that’s going on completely Clear away all brush leaving only the trees that might work into the final plan. Cut all vines and trees around the foundation and paint a poison solution on the cut vines and tree trunks.
While that’s going on, use a cherry picker to survey the roof line. Take tons of pics and take every measurement (only from the cherry picker platform) do not trust the structure whatsoever….taking measurements and carefully removing roof ornaments to either reuse or refabricate. Then remove slates….all done from the carriage. The remove rafters to also refaricate. Remove decorative stonework: First number each cut block with pray painted on numbers. Take multiple photographs of these (in place stones). Then begin to dismantle so to easily reset later. This will take months just to do what I’ve made a list of.
All the walls and structure need to be braced now that the grounds are cleared up and there’s room to set up such structuring. Once a firm and approved of structure is builded, then begin the repointing. The repointing must be done in order. Start at the bottle….in the basement. Repointing will involve removing all loose mortar that has lost its integrity. Mortar is to be fully integral with the lay of the stonework. As the Masons work their way up, there will be more damage. When mortar is carefully removed, one can inject an epoxy mortar under pressure. This will creep into every crevasse in the stonework where one cannot see. When doing this work, always allow two days for the mortar to set up or catalyze before continuing. One then can go to an alternate section and work on it. This must done on both sides of the wall. The injections are most important..as they must join each other so be integral. An injection every meter or less. Once all this is completed thoroughly and with the utmost care, then the dismantling of the house of any surviving woodwork can be extracted. Window frames can be removed and sent off to the to reproduce exactly, then returned as they’re completed and set back into the wall. While the these windows were removed, the stonework there too will have to examined and repointed. All the while this is going on, new rafters can be replaced and such things as these all attended to. The goal here is to have the entire house what’re proofed and glazed but the end of Autumn. The floors are rudimentarily complete for all the Tradesmen to complete or continue their own tasks. The Winter can be spent recreating the very complex roof. All this is still taking place under the superstructure. The roof will involve slate, copper, zinc, lead, and if the owner can afford it, he may use monel. The roof in this case should be structured so whereby it weight is distributed on the ballon structure of the house itself. Not all on the outer walls….though they take weight, that weight must be counter balanced upon the inner wood structure and “rest” on the walls.
The interior structure can be retrofitted with a steel structure if the structural engineers order it so. This too would solve all the problems of distributed weight issues. Warning: Stone doesn’t sage or give notice to its failing or allowing you time to escape. A stone collapse is immediate, and deadly to all beneath it. That tower needs to to be surveyed first and foremost. It may be removed and rebuilded entirely from scratch. I think $20,000,000,000. Would do the trick. Thank you vandals. Think of it? What if all the vandals over the years patched the roof, repaired The window panes, and kept the weeds and vines at bay. The effort it takes to destroy a property is the same effort if less to maintain it. I will recall Whitemarsh Hall and it’s systemic destruction by the over a twenty year period. As a boy, I would play there and even brought my dust pan and brush and spray cleaner in my nap sack on my bicycle and cleaned what I was able to reach, only to find that it too was again messed up a week later. It was feudal. The one day, I came upon men who were up on the high roof, and peeling off the copper standing seam roof liken to opening a Sardine can, and then two men would hoist up the copper role and throw it over the limestone balustrade and the roll crashed to the ground where once parterres were meticulously manicured. It was disgusting. An House is a sacred place. It was once. A warm loving home once where Christmas was rejoiced, and music played, and children were created and born into the world.
Who ever fixes up this magnificent pile will surely be an honor in the land for centuries to come. God Willing
Wow!
Merci +Annemie Vanwetswinkel