Blacksmith made

I was replacing guttering today and renewing facia boards on a very old house, Around 90 years old.

On levering off the old facia I was confronted by some massive old fordged nails, varying from the one shown at around 4" to one nearly 8" long...... must be origional, even found were the chippy had initialed the back of one of the boards! Took some prying off lol.

Always suprising what crops up on old houses!

 

That one on the right looks like the ones my skirting board are wacked in with.

 

I had some replaced and the plaster board popped :dh: I thought the flippin wall was gonna come down. I had asked them to be screwed back on muppet ! How in gods name they get multiple ones in I really don't know. They don't seem to have a penetrating tip to look at :cnfs:

 

Presumably they must have made a sizeable pilot hole, probably in two stadges so as to get the taper. Makes me feel lazy fixing the new up with a pasloade nailer, the origional carpenters would be quaking in thier boots!!!!