My House Refurb (House Purchase 8/10/2013)

[5potTurbo]

Wow, I guess using block i/o bricks sped up the laying process. Would be interesting even at this stage to see the before/during from the same angle to see the difference in size.

[Too Late]

It was staggering how quickly the walls went up in blocks. In 4 days the first floor was up and so was the partitioning walls.

Crazy.

[Too Late]

A detailed shot of the brick boarder round the house and porch



Some more brick detail. This is chasing round the whole property under the facias and sofits.


Note from the builder so i don't fall through the underfloor heating trays! good man!


A picture showing the wall cavity for the discussion above (AVForums), I couldn't get a photo showing the wall ties sorry, but it shows the insulation in-between the walls


Tiles in place on the roof



Some of the tiles in place showing the detail and how it will look



The underfloor heating has now been laid in all the rooms upstairs and the landing. Very impressed. If you are interested all the underfloor heating came from Uheat. they were significantly cheaper than what the plumber.... which was17k for the whole house... UHeat came in at 3.4k...









Next job is trying to relocate all these plants to somewhere in the garden...



We have laid cabling in the front of the property for either 2 or 3 on each side of the gable.. not sure how many to install...



Rough idea on locations... any ideas?


House from the road....

[5potTurbo]

From your earlier post, I presume you're referring to inserting lights in the soffits?
If so, what's the distance between them if you've 4 or 6 inserted, roughly? Depending on the beam width, with 6 it may be too much or 4 too few.

Looks great so far. Any further updates?

[Too Late]

So i havent been updating this thread for a while so thought i would just post a quick update of progress.

Monocouche went on



You can see where we start getting into problems which wasnt picked up by the architect.... The garage is alot lower than the extension...




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So Windows went in









Underfloor heating pipes for the ground floor run to the garage


Screed time


Work starts on the games room, joining the existing garage to the new extension








Portch is built


existing walls on the garage were leaning out and had to be rebuilt


Door goes on





Dog tooth detail on the gamesroom


Portch completed


More glass installed


Games room stud walls


Rear all glazed




First fix begins on electrics and plumbing



Upstairs UFH manifold



Lights and power!


Stairbox.com stairs arrive


Tiling and plumbing begin


I install the kitchen






Games room shelf built to hold the AV kit

[BristolMS]

Wow. Just wow!

I hadn't seen this thread before, so read your first post then skipped right to the end. Then scanned back through to see if it was actually the same house and project!

A hugely impressive transformation, well done

[Too Late]

BristolMS said:

Wow. Just wow!

I hadn't seen this thread before, so read your first post then skipped right to the end. Then scanned back through to see if it was actually the same house and project!

A hugely impressive transformation, well done

Thanks very much!

So the worktops are on order (the ones in the photos are temporary)
Ensuite starts to be tiled this weekend
I need to start planning rain water drainage.... so has anyone on here done rainwater drainage before??

[Pheo]

Looking awesome. I like that you've included little details like the lighting, the dogtooth, etc. Makes it not look like a bland box!

Keep posting!"

[ColinM50]

Yes agree looks pretty good but it's taken you eighteen months and it's still not finished? Are there builders doing it or is it a self build?

[Too Late]

The build actually started in late may last year. We had roughly 100k but quickly that disappeared. I took the project on in October. When I took it on we had a waterproof house. Pleased so far with progress...

[roogi]

Are they copper handles in the kitchen? Like those a lot, where could I get them?

[dxg]

roogi said:

Are they copper handles in the kitchen? Like those a lot, where could I get them?

I'd like to know too.

The window colour is sublime. Does it have a RAL code?

[B17NNS]

Very, very impressive

[Too Late]

thanks chaps.

Yes copper handles. http://allhandlesandpulls.co.uk
Got them from the website above.

The RAL colour is RAL 7038
Also had it matched on the garage door.

We love the RAL colour but we paid slightly more to have the Bifolds white on the inside with the RAL colour only being on the outside.

[alan-87]

Op great build. Very inspirational. Your blog is saying it is only available to invited people. Is this right

[Too Late]

This weekend consited of tiling the ensuite floor and fitting the tray



The Ensuite basin has arrived and god it is heavy!

[Too Late]

alan-87 said:

Op great build. Very inspirational. Your blog is saying it is only available to invited people. Is this right

Thanks very much. I am at the moment moving my blog so once its been fully migrated to a new website i will update the post with the link

Thanks
N

[Too Late]

Current outstanding jobs for this month!
Tile the walls of the ensuite
Fit ensuite toilet
Fit ensuite shower mixer
Plaster under the stairs
Plaster the games room.
Plaster ensuite ceiling
Plaster final wall in the landing
Patch cat6 cables into the patch panel mounted on the wall under the stairs.
Investigate rain water drainage... anyone who knows about this please drop me a note, this worries me...

Issues
Kitchen ceiling has to be repaired as the plumbing had to be corrected.
TV and power sockets in the lounge seem too high on the wall and will have to be moved lower
Kitchen screed cracked - i have epofix which i now need to mix and bond the cracks together

[Too Late]

So a quick update
Fully repaired and painted ceiling!


We sanded and painted the table

Hung the lights!


We have 42m2 of floorspace in the kitchen, hall, utilityroom. We have the tiler starting Wednesday with laying the Ditra matting, following on into early next week laying riven copper slate tiles.

[Too Late]

So a quick update
Slate is going down well, we went with D-Matting in the end.

Dorrs are arriving today
16 of these


Sourcing the doors were a nightmare (thanks for your help NeilYVM)
Some of our door frames are 2030mm high...







Comms room still needs to be patched correctly. I have a multimeter to make sure i am patching the correct cat6 to the correct patch port