Home Access Restoration Progress Contributors Trustees 'Friends' History Wonders
Big Hut Restoration Plan
Stage 1 Works completed 2003/4 Summer
- Repairs to flashings and external walls
- Roof secured by screws and sealed
- Outside cladding sealed (a temporary measure until replacement)
- Drainage installed around exterior
- Water tank reinstalled
- Third of floor re-leveled
- One bunkroom, kitchen, warden's quarters restored and repainted.
- Storage room (decommissioned second bunkroom) repaired
- Common Room repaired (ready for painting).
- Site survey of hut and surroundings
Stage 2 2004/5 Summer
Works planned include
- Seal foundations / repairs to SW corner
- Paint roof
- Complete kitchen
- Paint common room
- Restore and paint entrance-lobby and drying room
- Restore second bunkroom (wall paneling, painting) *
- Insulate ceilings
- Further floor leveling
- Install fire escapes in each bunkroom (raising permitted hut capacity from 12 to 40) *
- Provide fire resistent mattresses *
- Install under-floor insulation *
Stage 3 2005/6 Summer
- Replace cladding on exterior walls *
- Insulate walls *
- Re-polish floors
- Rewire electrics for portable generator connection *
- Install (solar powered) lighting and heating? *
- Install information panels on the natural and human history of the range, and in particular on skiing and hut building (research underway)
* subject to obtaining funding
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Rock and Pillar Hut Trust Inc., P O Box 127, Alexandra, New Zealand