1960's to now : our renovation

[croakey]

Days off work are meant to be.... Days to do work at home.

Decided to make a start on insulating and boarding out our porch.

Now I've never done plasterboard before, I'd imagine starting on something simple and square would of been a sound place to start. The porch is anything but.

Pictures:












...still a bit left to sort before the plasterer can get to work!

[Some Gump]

Du1point8 said:

are you going to tidy up the outside?

something like from this:



to this



Or just give it a jet wash and clean up the interior?

Why do people want their homes to look like an office?
IMO the "pre done up" house there is much nicer than the modern gray window job.

[croakey]

Likely will leave the outside alone,
Would stand out like a sore thumb if we went all out!

[maxest]

Enjoying the updates on this one.. the porch is a massive improvement

[croakey]

It's not as exciting as others and there haven't been any major gains yet, however it's a real world refurb being done on a limited budget.

Soon the money will run dry and projects will need to become more creative with budgets etc

[croakey]

With the clock ticking for the rewire beginning Monday the fact you've been up since 4am doesn't count.



A rather grotty woodchipped ceiling.


Ex grotty ceiling.



And voila a board less ceiling.


This weekends job is to attempt to reboard it.

Full steam ahead

Edited by croakey on Thursday 14th January 20:45

[BigTom85]

I remember pulling out ceiling down in our kitchen. One of the messiest jobs you can do in a house!

All good progress though

[croakey]

Messy doesn't begin to explain it, a sledgehammer proved to be very effective at pulling boards down... And making a mess

[croakey]

Another menial update...



The 'roach has been pressed into more material hauling and I've been putting stuff up instead of taking it down.





The last third will be done once I've bolted up the ventilation system for extractor hood.

Maybe... Just maybe I'll utilise my favourite tool to remove more kitchen later

[croakey]

A few swings of my trusty sledgehammer and a whole new load of crap to take tip wards.



Half the kitchen out, tiles off... And the retro 70's serving hatch is gone.

[smn159]

Looking good!

Have you decided what lighting you're going for in the kitchen yet? I put in Zep1 LEDs from E36Guy on here when I did mine and I've been impressed with them.

[croakey]

I hadn't thought of looking on here for bulbs and lamps etc so already ordered boat load off eBay. They get good reviews so we'll see how we get on!

Under and over cabinet I'm thinking maybe some led rope / stick on led things. We had fluorescent in our old kitchen but I always felt they were too bright and didn't provide any ambience

[croakey]

And so it begins...





After 14 hours door to door today I'm not feeling living in a building site. Let's hope it's all worth it!

[croakey]

Leaving for work having spent the morning shifting stuff around for the Sparks... Looking forward to the break!

If you're considering a refurb/restoration and it needsa rewire do it before you move in if you can.The amount of dust and upheaval is huge, did I mention the dust?!!!!!




Second half of the kitchen to come out tomorrow to allow access, means we'll have no kitchen for 3 weeks. The wife won't be pleased!!!!

[croakey]

The rewire continues...








Currently with no kitchen now so working on begging dinners from friends and family, eating out and takeaway. Lots of takeaway!

Luckily because we're new to this area we can work our way through and see what's good!

Also managed to remove the last bit of kitchen (bar the sink) and discovered that the floor I was concerned about a slight bow was down to laminate type tiles fitted with no expansion pinned to the skirting.

Fingers crossed the updates will get more interesting as we're moving towards making things look nice again!

[croakey]

Currently sourcing flooring for downstairs that owing to practicality reasons is looking like a mix between some vinyl flooring and high spec laminates. Had engineered oak before and suffered some quite nasty scratches and discolouration I'm keen to avoid.

With that in mind does anyone have a clue to competitive pricing on "quickstep" flooring? Went to TileGiant where we saw it and I can't find anywhere much cheaper on line from a quick google?!

[mikeiow]

croakey said:

With that in mind does anyone have a clue to competitive pricing on "quickstep" flooring? Went to TileGiant where we saw it and I can't find anywhere much cheaper on line from a quick google?!

Sorry, can't help with the good pricing....but I do think quikstep is great flooring: I put it in our ground floor *many* years ago (12-15'ish !), and it still looks good!

[croakey]

It's 99.9% what we'll order, the quality of it is far far superior to other laminates etc.

Still hunting the elusive bargain though!

[Welshbeef]

That's some serious hard work going on here - looking good

[croakey]

Welshbeef said:

That's some serious hard work going on here - looking good

Thanks for the compliment

Right now motivation is...



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