Our build thread, renovation and extension
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More brickwork up and the hip at the rear of the house has been fully stripped. I'll post some more pics hen I go back on monday as it was a bit dark last night.
We found stripping the tiles off is a fairly simple, albeit uncomfortable job if you do it from the top. However it needs 3 hands to do it, maybe 4 in places.
I was sliding them down off the roof for my Dad to catch at the bottom, the only problem was as the sun started to rise above the ridge it completely blinded him and he couldn't see the tiles hurtling towards his face! That's a job for the early morning or evening I feel, not least because it will be a bit cooler up there!
I've had some designs back for trusses and hopefully by the end of next week the brickwork will be ready for the roof plate and the trusses can start to go on. That is if the steel and carpenter are ready on time.
We found stripping the tiles off is a fairly simple, albeit uncomfortable job if you do it from the top. However it needs 3 hands to do it, maybe 4 in places.
I was sliding them down off the roof for my Dad to catch at the bottom, the only problem was as the sun started to rise above the ridge it completely blinded him and he couldn't see the tiles hurtling towards his face! That's a job for the early morning or evening I feel, not least because it will be a bit cooler up there!
I've had some designs back for trusses and hopefully by the end of next week the brickwork will be ready for the roof plate and the trusses can start to go on. That is if the steel and carpenter are ready on time.
I just had a look through all of my costs, I've absolutely everything listed in each area on a excel spreadsheet and the to date the extension has cost under £23k. That includes the drainage on the entire house, all of the groundworks, floor slab, first floor, all plant hire, scaffolding (whole house paid for), all the steels including roof ones, materials and labour. £191 per square meter shell costs, probably around £300 per square meter once the roof is on.
Moving along a bit now, had 3 of us there stripping the roof today.
Bathroom window, I don't think it needs frosted glass as no one can see into it anyway.
Dressing room window.
Chimeny narrowed and moving up.
The battle I have is getting everything sorted for the roof to allow that to run as smoothly as possible with just my Dad there as I go back to work the week after next. I need the trusses designed (nearly) and sent to the architect so that he can position the steel (probably not done) then I need those delivered. The architect then needs to tell the steel manufacturer so that he can order the steel and weld bits to it. We also need a specific lintel which is made to order which will carry some of the weight of the steel. Most importantly is juggling a slot with our carpenter to get on and put the thing up, he wants to start next Tuesday but I don't think we will have everything in place by then.
Bathroom window, I don't think it needs frosted glass as no one can see into it anyway.
Dressing room window.
Chimeny narrowed and moving up.
The battle I have is getting everything sorted for the roof to allow that to run as smoothly as possible with just my Dad there as I go back to work the week after next. I need the trusses designed (nearly) and sent to the architect so that he can position the steel (probably not done) then I need those delivered. The architect then needs to tell the steel manufacturer so that he can order the steel and weld bits to it. We also need a specific lintel which is made to order which will carry some of the weight of the steel. Most importantly is juggling a slot with our carpenter to get on and put the thing up, he wants to start next Tuesday but I don't think we will have everything in place by then.
cuneus said:
Tried them, none in stock, but luckily the one my merchants ordered last week turned up today well ahead of schedule!Today started quietly, no brickies, then the scaffolders turned up unexpectedly.
They've put the final lift up at the back to the roof and one on the side so we can cut the window. Hopefully they will be back pretty soon to do 2 lifts all round the front and sides of the existing house.
We spent much of today removing the sloping roof and rafters, removing the wall around the airing cupboard, removing a huge supporting timber beam and installing it as a temporary prop, removing the window and removing the rear wall. It's completely open now so hopefully the roof can go on fairly soon!
Pretty knackered now!
Tempted to keep this as temporary pull up bar on the stairs!
Bit of a mess...
Next layer of scaffolding
A bit hole!
Getting there...
The stairs will come up on the right and all the brickwork will go up to the breezeblocks on the left.
They've put the final lift up at the back to the roof and one on the side so we can cut the window. Hopefully they will be back pretty soon to do 2 lifts all round the front and sides of the existing house.
We spent much of today removing the sloping roof and rafters, removing the wall around the airing cupboard, removing a huge supporting timber beam and installing it as a temporary prop, removing the window and removing the rear wall. It's completely open now so hopefully the roof can go on fairly soon!
Pretty knackered now!
Tempted to keep this as temporary pull up bar on the stairs!
Bit of a mess...
Next layer of scaffolding
A bit hole!
Getting there...
The stairs will come up on the right and all the brickwork will go up to the breezeblocks on the left.
Having a nightmare with the truss manufacturers, they know full well the urgency with this and despite having been asked to design the roof 5 weeks ago, still haven't done it, at all. Yet they say they will deliver it on friday, which doesn't leave any time for our architect to check it, or for our steel fabricator to make the steel!
Brickie was in for a couple of hours to bump out the remaining bricks and the chippy was here to check our roof wasn't about to fall down. He chopped a bit more to allow the steel to fit in and we're leaving it at that until the structure is braced a bit more. We also took out some bricks at the top of the stairs so you can see where the stairs will emerge and generally did a lot of cleaning and tidying up, as well as sticking in a makeshift handrail around the stairs, see if you can guess what it was made out of
We've got a load of good bricks from the old house that we want to keep to possibly re-use or sell, but we couldn't figure out how to get them down easily. Rope and a bucket didn't work very well. So we ended up with a great fun game of throwing bricks off the top of the scaffolding into 3 bags of sand below, worked a treat and pretty good fun
Brickie was in for a couple of hours to bump out the remaining bricks and the chippy was here to check our roof wasn't about to fall down. He chopped a bit more to allow the steel to fit in and we're leaving it at that until the structure is braced a bit more. We also took out some bricks at the top of the stairs so you can see where the stairs will emerge and generally did a lot of cleaning and tidying up, as well as sticking in a makeshift handrail around the stairs, see if you can guess what it was made out of
We've got a load of good bricks from the old house that we want to keep to possibly re-use or sell, but we couldn't figure out how to get them down easily. Rope and a bucket didn't work very well. So we ended up with a great fun game of throwing bricks off the top of the scaffolding into 3 bags of sand below, worked a treat and pretty good fun
We were revising the truss design up to about 10pm, to get it right and again first thing this morning even once production had started but hopefully we have got that all spot on.
Brickies busy working here, while a random cat that has been on site for a few days looks on!
Roof plans
Roof plate is on, brickwork and blockwork finished apart from the chimney, the headers beneath the first floor windows and a section in the corner where the roof overhang needs to be fitted first.
The heavy duty lintel which will support the valley beam of the roof.
Wall up the side of the stairs built with padstone to support the "T beam".
Family bathroom on the left and dressing room on the right.
Master bedroom on the right and gap for sloping roof to fit into.
Master bedroom side window on left and ensuite on the right.
I also got a price for a new hardwood front door and have booked the window surveyor for next friday
Brickies busy working here, while a random cat that has been on site for a few days looks on!
Roof plans
Roof plate is on, brickwork and blockwork finished apart from the chimney, the headers beneath the first floor windows and a section in the corner where the roof overhang needs to be fitted first.
The heavy duty lintel which will support the valley beam of the roof.
Wall up the side of the stairs built with padstone to support the "T beam".
Family bathroom on the left and dressing room on the right.
Master bedroom on the right and gap for sloping roof to fit into.
Master bedroom side window on left and ensuite on the right.
I also got a price for a new hardwood front door and have booked the window surveyor for next friday
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