Here's my refurb thread
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I wish I had any sort of meaningful update folks! A lot of my time has been spent researching how I'm going to update/modernise everything, while working in the dire current state of the oil industry.
I'll take a pic of the cladding later today or tomorrow to show how it has weathered, it'll probably need a top up of osmo uv this year to keep it looking fresh and I may tint it darker.
First thing I've decided on is removing the playroom at the back of the garage for two reasons. A. I want to see how we get on with the opened up dining room/kitchen first B. Will save a good bit of cash and can be added later as the partition is non load bearing. I'd had lintels sized though for a single and double width opening into the garage though for future if required. Plus it means a bigger garage for me!
All the engineering work is completed now and SER certificate is sorted for building control. I think I sent 5 emails of clarifications and pointing out details that were missing on the engineers drawings, if I didn't have a Structural background (albeit in steelwork) I'd have been none the wiser. For a 'professional' service I was utterly shocked at what they deemed acceptable. I think the worst thing was 'forgetting' one of the walls had a metre of soil build up behind it.
So, where am I currently? All I have to do is put together a waterproofing detail to send to the architect and he should have the drawings finished this week, then I can send them out for quotes to make sure my mortgage co will stump up the required readies!
I'm still hopeful to build this year, next time I'd probably do the drawings myself though.
I'll take a pic of the cladding later today or tomorrow to show how it has weathered, it'll probably need a top up of osmo uv this year to keep it looking fresh and I may tint it darker.
First thing I've decided on is removing the playroom at the back of the garage for two reasons. A. I want to see how we get on with the opened up dining room/kitchen first B. Will save a good bit of cash and can be added later as the partition is non load bearing. I'd had lintels sized though for a single and double width opening into the garage though for future if required. Plus it means a bigger garage for me!
All the engineering work is completed now and SER certificate is sorted for building control. I think I sent 5 emails of clarifications and pointing out details that were missing on the engineers drawings, if I didn't have a Structural background (albeit in steelwork) I'd have been none the wiser. For a 'professional' service I was utterly shocked at what they deemed acceptable. I think the worst thing was 'forgetting' one of the walls had a metre of soil build up behind it.
So, where am I currently? All I have to do is put together a waterproofing detail to send to the architect and he should have the drawings finished this week, then I can send them out for quotes to make sure my mortgage co will stump up the required readies!
I'm still hopeful to build this year, next time I'd probably do the drawings myself though.
Well I must be pretty certain I know what I'm doing as I binned the architect after that last debacle and will be re-drawing and submitting the building control drawings myself.
The good news is I've got a builder sorted... bad news is they can't start till November. I don't mind too much though as at least it'll be finished for Spring unless we get a lot of bad weather. There's a few other small things I'm going as well now like replacing all the windows with Rationel triple glazed auraplus colour matched to the door and re-rendering the whole house.
The only thing I've done recently is fit 4 new recessed drain covers. As the house is on a hill there's drop pipes before every manhole hence the extra covers. The one on the grass needed to be raised, the cover drilled, membrane fitted, drainage grid fitted then topsoil/turf. The two 900x600 recessed covers were filled with EPS insulation then a layer of stones on top to keep the weight down. The smaller cover was just completely filled with stones.
Small detail but will make life easier next time a drain blocks! Not sure if I'll do much more before the main work kicks off, might just spend a bit of time trying to improve my lawn!
The good news is I've got a builder sorted... bad news is they can't start till November. I don't mind too much though as at least it'll be finished for Spring unless we get a lot of bad weather. There's a few other small things I'm going as well now like replacing all the windows with Rationel triple glazed auraplus colour matched to the door and re-rendering the whole house.
The only thing I've done recently is fit 4 new recessed drain covers. As the house is on a hill there's drop pipes before every manhole hence the extra covers. The one on the grass needed to be raised, the cover drilled, membrane fitted, drainage grid fitted then topsoil/turf. The two 900x600 recessed covers were filled with EPS insulation then a layer of stones on top to keep the weight down. The smaller cover was just completely filled with stones.
Small detail but will make life easier next time a drain blocks! Not sure if I'll do much more before the main work kicks off, might just spend a bit of time trying to improve my lawn!
Finally my extension is due to start next month, I ended up submitting my own building warrant drawings a few weeks ago. I've taken away the extra room that was going to be in the garage to get extra space in it, bigger kitchen window instead of bricking the whole door up, sliding doors instead of bifolds now, new anthracite triple glazed windows throughout and the full house re-rendered white. Q7 in it for scale, wish I had room for a double but there's plenty of room to do everything I need.
GP335i said:
Finally my extension is due to start next month, I ended up submitting my own building warrant drawings a few weeks ago. I've taken away the extra room that was going to be in the garage to get extra space in it, bigger kitchen window instead of bricking the whole door up, sliding doors instead of bifolds now, new anthracite triple glazed windows throughout and the full house re-rendered white. Q7 in it for scale, wish I had room for a double but there's plenty of room to do everything I need.
Love those drawings! Do you mind me asking which program you used to create them?GP335i said:
There's a few other small things I'm going as well now like replacing all the windows with Rationel triple glazed auraplus colour matched to the door and re-rendering the whole house.
Excellent choice, great performance all round and will improve the look of the house immensely.
Arguably not a small item as there certainly not an inexpensive item as you undoubtedly know.
Make sure you protect the external frames well, render and ali-clad windows can end in tears!
Are ADW supplying them?
don'tbesilly said:
GP335i said:
There's a few other small things I'm going as well now like replacing all the windows with Rationel triple glazed auraplus colour matched to the door and re-rendering the whole house.
Excellent choice, great performance all round and will improve the look of the house immensely.
Arguably not a small item as there certainly not an inexpensive item as you undoubtedly know.
Make sure you protect the external frames well, render and ali-clad windows can end in tears!
Are ADW supplying them?
Tell me more about protecting these Aluminium windows when rendering? I have anthracite Aluminium windows now and am intending on having the front of the house rendered (although it's not the whole thing like OP). Is there something I should be aware of?
OP, consider not rendering the house white? I've considered it but currently feel like the anthracite against white is too stark and as someone in another thread put it, 'nouveau'.
OP, consider not rendering the house white? I've considered it but currently feel like the anthracite against white is too stark and as someone in another thread put it, 'nouveau'.
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