Penguins rest renovation
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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.
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.
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
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
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.Great sized place, and that outside archway looks fancy! How bigs the garden?
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...
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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.
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
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
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!Are there plans for bespoke furniture/kitchens etc? Or are
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
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