Penguins rest renovation

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Blakeatron

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172 months

Saturday 15th October 2016
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Following a previous thread, we finally exchanged on Friday 14th October!

If anyone is interested I will try and keep this updated, so this is the renovation of our 7 bedroom nunnery to 5 bedroom family home - we would like to be in for the end of Jan 2017..,

First job was to get the kitchen out and open it up into the old dining room, horrible long dusty day - assisted by a good friend and the father in law, wife and kids got busy in the garden.





Some Gump

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185 months

Saturday 15th October 2016
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Oi! You know the rules. Any build thread needs a crude floor plan in ms-paint, and ideally a house full of "before" shots concentrating on the Nasty grimy bits behind the cooker / a razzle from 1976 / proof the last guy was a bodge artist of biblical proportions smile

Looking forward to seeing the Penguins nest..

Edited by Some Gump on Monday 17th October 17:45

Blakeatron

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Sunday 16th October 2016
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Sorry no floorplans yet - laptop died last week so doing everything on phone at the moment!

More demolition today, chipping away plaster to show new door revelas etc

Good news : we have a newish plastic incoming water pipe!
Bad news : we have dry rot. I didnt bother with a survey but had my suspicions, which were confirmed today - luckily very localised and easily treatable!

Suspected window



Dodgy previous repair



Rot!



Other good news, we can just squeeze the van under the arch, meaning loadin rubbish is much easier! The van also fits in the garage, just


C Lee Farquar

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215 months

Sunday 16th October 2016
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Sleep easy: wet rot

Blakeatron

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Monday 17th October 2016
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Bored at work so downloaded paint - here we go;

Current:


New layout - some door flips, ensuites not 100% but roughly:

Some Gump

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185 months

Monday 17th October 2016
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The plans for the house please me - this is going to be another great bit of DIY voyeurism, thanks OP =)

Rushjob

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257 months

Monday 17th October 2016
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Bookmarked!

Blakeatron

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Monday 17th October 2016
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Thought we had found the mains water in, turns out we hadnt!

Luckily had enough bits to bodge a fix overnight and nothing worth saving got wet. Clothed showering with your 16 year old apprentice has not been the highlight of my day

Tom1981

218 posts

255 months

Monday 17th October 2016
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Excellent! Looking forward to this one!

dbdb

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172 months

Monday 17th October 2016
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I look forward to reading about this as it unfolds. The house has tremendous potential.

Blakeatron

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Wednesday 19th October 2016
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More smashing completed - just the old shower/bath room to take out and all the demolition is finished, ish!

Betsys room before




After



Mollys room before




After



The view is quite nice!




joshleb

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143 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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That looks like a great project, hope you manage to keep updating the thread!

Great sized place, and that outside archway looks fancy! How bigs the garden?

Blakeatron

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Saturday 22nd October 2016
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joshleb said:
That looks like a great project, hope you manage to keep updating the thread!

Great sized place, and that outside archway looks fancy! How bigs the garden?
Gardens are ok ish - we are not gardeners and never will be, so there is more than enough for us. The main garden is at the front and will be lawn and big shrubs maybe 20m x 5m and then a large vegetable patch and smaller flower garden on the other side of the arch.

There is a 3 car garage and parking for loads of cars, under the arch you could squeeze 6 cars and still turn them around and on the other drive its 3 car widths wide and 5 long.

Tiring day today - the last bit of major demolition, the structural wall between the kitchen and dining wall is down and propped. Sadly the wifes dad who is doing this part cant get back till next weekend to fit the lintels and build the piers up so we have taped it off for now...

10ish



11ish



4ish



This meant a transit van full of rubble bags to go to the skip, currently off site until we can get a tree down, and a huge pile of slate for facing a garden wall eventually.

Blakeatron

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Saturday 26th November 2016
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If anyone is watching we are still progressing - slowly as i am well into our christmas rush at work so down to weekends only at the mo :-(

Plumbing is first fixed, electric chasing started, all major structural works now complete, had some trees down so nownhave 2 driveways and a skip on site - so much easier!

Having a sewer nightmare, on the back of the house the sewer was emptying into the top water open lidded drain - big no no - and the actual top water was collapsed.

The sewer hs been diverted under the house and tapped into the main sewer and rodding eyes and manholes installed - the collapsed top on the other side will have to wait till next year once funds have recovered.





Bit dodgy but climbed up onto the roofs to drop the flues - not a bad view


dazwalsh

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140 months

Sunday 27th November 2016
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Looks good so far, always enjoy a good build thread, keep the updates coming!

Slagathore

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191 months

Sunday 27th November 2016
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Looking forward to seeing this progress!

Are there plans for bespoke furniture/kitchens etc? Or are

Blakeatron

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Sunday 27th November 2016
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Slagathore said:
Looking forward to seeing this progress!

Are there plans for bespoke furniture/kitchens etc? Or are
The wife and girls shifted 2 tonnes of pea shinge to fill the new drainage today while i completed the downstairs chasing - pooped!

All furniture will eventually be bespoke but just to get us in we will be reusing our old pieces and anything we can lay our hands on - this house is roughly 4 times bigger than our old one!

The only thing set in stone at the moment is the kitchen which is currently under production - oak cabinets with solid oak in frame painted doors, simply shaker style.
Main run is 6.5m containing all the appliances and having a granite top, then a large island approx 1.2m x 3.5m with a 3" solid oak top

Slagathore

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191 months

Monday 28th November 2016
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Blakeatron said:
The wife and girls shifted 2 tonnes of pea shinge to fill the new drainage today while i completed the downstairs chasing - pooped!

All furniture will eventually be bespoke but just to get us in we will be reusing our old pieces and anything we can lay our hands on - this house is roughly 4 times bigger than our old one!

The only thing set in stone at the moment is the kitchen which is currently under production - oak cabinets with solid oak in frame painted doors, simply shaker style.
Main run is 6.5m containing all the appliances and having a granite top, then a large island approx 1.2m x 3.5m with a 3" solid oak top
That makes sense. For some reason, I didn't finish the last sentence off! It should have said or are you going to buy stuff in to save time.

Lots of pictures of the furniture and kitchen please. That island is huge!


Blakeatron

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Friday 2nd December 2016
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Bit a milestone today - for me anyway, downstairs wiring is fully first fixed and upstairs all chased out.

Managed to bodge some lights on with a lot of wagos and some questionable light fittings! Also got one of the fires on and burnin well



Blakeatron

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Tuesday 3rd January 2017
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Slowly but surely plodding on - all downstairs woodchip now off, 3 big bay windows now fitted and all downstairs windows on site for fitting, bathroom plastered, kitchen starting to be plastered, first dix wirinf and pkumbing complete...