House Build Thread As Promised

[BIGDAI]

Now around the end of March my wife went in for her hip replacement so, once again, photographs were not a priority but we started on the driveway & retaining wall

[BIGDAI]

By the end of May, the driveway well on the way & the gates are up

[BIGDAI]

The lamp went up having been refurbed.



Around this stage the new house was making the old suite look shabby!!

[MrChips]

BIGDAI said:

Nice shiny new floor!

Glad you managed to get through the planning maze!
I'd be really interested to know the dimensions of this part of the floor plan as our new extended house will be a similar layout but I'm struggling to visualise it!

[catfood12]

Great work and great thread fella !

From the page one shots of the first block work, did you use trenchblocks on the first course, or some other interlocking block I can see ? If so, did they save any time, were they any easier... if you can remember that far back ...

For everyone else, it's these;

http://www.heidelbergcement.com/NR/rdonlyres/E7F1E...

Not sure whether to give them a go on the next project...

[BIGDAI]

Mr Chips - will try to fish out the plans - may take a while as I have no idea where they are but I'll pm them over to you.

Catfood - sorry, no idea - they builders did all that - I didn't get my hands dirty at all - I'm a professional penpusher!

[BIGDAI]

The patio went down

[BIGDAI]

The landscaping started









The fence went up









and the last bit of the drive was finished - for the second time - first lot fell apart - BIG row with builder!

[BIGDAI]

Garage was finished



SWMBO's MX5 fits!



Tarmac to the entrance went down

[BIGDAI]

Kept the wood from the old bungalow to for log burner - now we need to move it!



It's all been sprayed with weedkiller









Second rotavation and raking prior to seeding

[BIGDAI]

Grass growing nicely but the fat bloke with the camera doesn't understand shadow!









Oh and painted the fence too!



Shed base



and shed

[BIGDAI]

We are now at January 2012 - and I had MY hip replacement so, again, photographs are few & far between but at least I was at home for when the decorators painted the outside. You will notice the lamp is now complete too.



















and bought a patio set

Edited by BIGDAI on Thursday 30th October 22:35

[BIGDAI]

And finally fenced off the bottom part of the garden

[BIGDAI]

Well, that's about it. Hope you enjoyed the thread - I must say it took nearly as long to load the pics as it did to do the build!

However, it was quite cathartic and has made me realise that I haven't taken any more pics since May 2012 so I need to rectify that as the garden has changed a bit now.

Thanks for looking.

Dai

[StratosGirl]

Thanks for sharing! Beautiful house

[barwea]

Looks awesome

[spud989]

That's great. Looks so good and must be worth so much more. Done anything fancy inside the garage?

[BigTom85]

A great build. It must look even nicer now it'll have matured a bit - get some more recent pics up, we all love pics!

Thanks for taking the time to share

[ehonda]

Enjoyed that, nice build and a nice back story too.

[Davey S2]

Great job. Thanks for sharing.