Our build thread, renovation and extension

Our build thread, renovation and extension

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Muncher

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12,219 posts

248 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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The worktops may well continue down there as the kitchen space has not been fully worked out, we need room for floor standing fridges and freezers for example.

Muncher

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12,219 posts

248 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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We haven't looked at them that closely yet. The missus was adamant she wanted SMEG ones but now I think we are considering all options. The only thing we have noticed so far is that a lot of the free standing fridges look enormous but have bugger all space inside.

dxg

8,097 posts

259 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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Speaking as an ex-QS, the plans with the magenta internal partitions will be much cheaper as, if you make that partition loadbearing, you've got a much shorter clear span on the first floor joists in the extension - you'd probably be getting back into the realms of normal josits, rather than engineered beams which would a) expensive; and b) require more vertical height.

Muncher

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248 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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In that case is it more effective to build the magenta one as load bearing and then just have a 4m set of bifolds set into the middle so it never opens up completely but 2/3 of it does? I know bifolds are pretty heavy and require significant support anyway.

There's no garage as yet, that is going in under a separate application once construction has started for planning reasons. It will also allow us to size it better once we get a feel for the remaining garage. I'm a big fan of chest freezers, do they actually do any reasonable ones that could have hinged worktop on them so look integrated?

dxg

8,097 posts

259 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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You'd still need a pretty chunky beam/lintel to the head of the bifolds.

Ask yourself what the bifolds are for. Have you looked at pocket doors? They's all the rage dontchaknow? Although they wouldn't open as wide.

Muncher

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248 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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Good idea, I like the idea of pocket doors, I'd not heard of those before and I guess they would be cheaper. Do you happen to know the maximum width of those?

Paul

Muncher

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Friday 24th February 2012
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Jackman72

24 posts

159 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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Hi Muncher,

Have to agree with GTO - if you put the kitchen all down the outside wall with a narrower island with a breakfast bar you can then have a spare 'boys' room - you've said yourself you'll never use it very often so better to have as a play room or the like

Good luck

uk66fastback

16,429 posts

270 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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£4m and you can spit onto next door's land from the front step - haha!

Muncher

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12,219 posts

248 months

Sunday 26th February 2012
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Been back there today, completely filled the second 8 yard skip. The next one hopefully the last until proper building work starts.

Not many photos from this weekend as it's just the unglamours task of removing all the plaster from every wall of the house, the largest bedroom, bathroom, airing cupboard and part of the landing are now down and in the skip. It comes off reasonably easily with the SDS drill on chisel mode, how on earth you'd do that job without one of them I do not know!


Main bedroom now completely done, cleared and all the tools moved to there.


Yet another bonfire, there is always more wood to burn. We have cleared a phenominal amount of wood from in the house and plant matter this way, probably no exageration to say 6+ skips worth. The bowls club next door keep giving us more wood each week so we are burning all their waste wood too!


Have had to move my recently written off workhorse into the front garden now.


Extension marked out in white posts. Feels quite small when you walk around it but no doubt will feel bigger when up.



dazerc

427 posts

206 months

Sunday 26th February 2012
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Lots of good work. Will be a nice hose to live i once finished.

I think the extension looks quite big. You have plenty of room at the side/ back for a nice big gargae/workshop.

Muncher

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12,219 posts

248 months

Sunday 26th February 2012
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A question that hopefully someone here can assist with... I want/need to clean up the external brick, it has become discoloured from the elements. The pointing is rock solid in all bar a couple of places where there is cracking. So I assume pressure washing or possibly sand blasting is the way to go. I want to get this out of the way while not much else is going on, and importantly before we possibly get a hosepipe ban. Now I would start at the back, which is becoming an internal wall, but is there anything else I need to be aware of to avoid damaging the bricks?

deuchars

260 posts

214 months

Tuesday 28th February 2012
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Brilliant project, please keep the updates coming.

uk66fastback

16,429 posts

270 months

Wednesday 29th February 2012
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Muncher said:
A question that hopefully someone here can assist with... I want/need to clean up the external brick, it has become discoloured from the elements. The pointing is rock solid in all bar a couple of places where there is cracking. So I assume pressure washing or possibly sand blasting is the way to go. I want to get this out of the way while not much else is going on, and importantly before we possibly get a hosepipe ban. Now I would start at the back, which is becoming an internal wall, but is there anything else I need to be aware of to avoid damaging the bricks?
Speak to a specialist company - I've seen a fair few old buildings done like this - sandblasted that is - they screen the wall from the elements and do it - but this was on a High St - not sure if where you are they will bother - depends how windy it is I guess!

Probably a good few £££ though

(Just to give an idea) ...

http://www.brickrestoration.co.uk/brick-cleaning/


(from this websitesmile

We start our process of cleaning the brickwork by applying a specially formulated chemical to the exterior walls, which, when combined with warm water rinsing will reveal the original colours of the brickwork. Our brick cleaning systems and techniques used on the brick work will not damage, alter or change the brick face unlike sandblasting or other forms of aggressive cleaning. Our system will only remove the dirt.



Edited by uk66fastback on Wednesday 29th February 13:30

Muncher

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12,219 posts

248 months

Wednesday 29th February 2012
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Yep, it seems it is almost always done with steam and maybe a mild acid solution.

I can hire a Karcher steam cleaner for £140 for the a day, combined with a ladder I think that should do it. I suspect one of those companies would charge a good few grand for doing the same thing I suspect.

CSJXX

291 posts

191 months

Thursday 1st March 2012
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Let me know how you get on muncher.

As you can see in the photo I want to remove all the black on the bricks where a fireplace was on the other side and where gutters have been.


DSC_0257 by CSJXX, on Flickr

Edited by CSJXX on Friday 2nd March 10:27

Muncher

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12,219 posts

248 months

Thursday 1st March 2012
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By the sounds of it my brother in law has found a steam cleaner so we might be having a crack at it shortly!

Muncher

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12,219 posts

248 months

Thursday 1st March 2012
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Scratch that the one he found sounds too small.

Something like this is needed.

http://www.hss.com/index.php?g=59311&t=zoom

Muncher

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12,219 posts

248 months

Thursday 1st March 2012
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Just had a quote for a local firm to clean the brickwork with a steam cleaner, have a guess how much they want...

cossy400

3,153 posts

183 months

Thursday 1st March 2012
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Assuming its a days work id guess, £1000??