The goodlife -1930 full renovation
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The amount of grease can’t be fully seen to believe in the photo. Once we started to strip the kitchen we found that the ductwork for the extraction hood had broke so it was just spraying the grease all around. We also found that they had tiled the kitchen but not grouted everywhere (only areas that might be required around oven and sink). There was still the plastic clips in between the tiles from the original tiling to the water (at least 15 year old I recon)
Now the wardrobe to come down…
More dust
Only thing that was quality, again going by the address (because the company is still around but moved its 15-20 years old)
Dad makes a start on the wood surround around the the door, it still had barcode stickers on the wood
mattvanders said:
CornishRob said:
Watching this with interest. We have just had an offer accepted on a 1930s probate house. Early stages for us, but it will need a full renovation if it all works out and the sale goes through.
Good luck
Good luck with your purchase as well. Will be uploading the work so far over the next few days to present day. What’s the plans for yours?Good luck
It sounds like we are planning similar to you. Ground floor L shape extension for kitchen / diner, the eventually loft, hopefully hip to gable with dormer out the back for master and en-suite.
We will also need to go through the rest of the house and probably re-wire, possible plumbing, then re skim and replace everything!
First job will probably be removing the stair lift!!
CornishRob said:
Cheers, it will be good to see how you get on for some inspiration! We have extended our current (Victorian) house we are currently selling, so I know what to expect. However we now have a 2 year old in the mix as well, so expect it to be 10x harder than last time.
It sounds like we are planning similar to you. Ground floor L shape extension for kitchen / diner, the eventually loft, hopefully hip to gable with dormer out the back for master and en-suite.
We will also need to go through the rest of the house and probably re-wire, possible plumbing, then re skim and replace everything!
First job will probably be removing the stair lift!!
Nice, what did you do to the current house extension wise? I bet, we have seen too many grand designs where half way though they announce they are expecting and have to be in before the baby is due, not planning on doing that! Our electrician was saying when he was carrying out his work at home with his young family he didn’t baby proof it but the kids learnt not to hurt themselves.It sounds like we are planning similar to you. Ground floor L shape extension for kitchen / diner, the eventually loft, hopefully hip to gable with dormer out the back for master and en-suite.
We will also need to go through the rest of the house and probably re-wire, possible plumbing, then re skim and replace everything!
First job will probably be removing the stair lift!!
Yer we are making a L shape extension as well with the snug in the current dining room. We did look at a number of properties that had done the same but had only gone out 3m so permitted development so didn’t require planning permission. The problem is that the extension isn’t big enough to be a usable space. We even sure some where the kitchen was kept in the same location with window on the side which was very claustrophobic.
Morning all, more photos to be added from the first few weeks of work below. Have been chatting with the neighbours and finding out more information, our joining neighbours had tried to buy our property before it went to market but the offer was rejected for being too low. Because they are on a corner to a join T junction (so side access to a road) they did look into buying part of the bottom of our garden to be able to build another house using a bit of their and our garden. Again this was rejected by the old owners but the old owners then put a cause into our sale that if we sold any of our land within the next 10 years they would get 10% of the sale. We are happy to agree on the basis we don’t intended to sell, if we got £30k fr the sales it would devalue the property by similar or more amount so not worth it.
We also let the joining neighbours know what we was intending to do with loft conversation and back extension which their first response was to ask how high the extension will be/type of roof as they are worried about it blocking out the light from their dinner room. Having had a chat with architect and others it’s not something that is taken into account by council for a single storey building, a bit different for double storey building. We was looking into doing a hipped or leaned out roof. We really don’t want a flat roof as we don’t think they look nice and they always lead to problems with water leaks in years to come. We wouldn’t of minded their concerns but they have build a very large (2.2 m high) shed around 6m away in front of the window and a small flat roofed extension on the back of their house all that leads to shadows being cast on to said window. And this is before you even talk about the junk yard* of metal and cars in the back garden…
We also let the joining neighbours know what we was intending to do with loft conversation and back extension which their first response was to ask how high the extension will be/type of roof as they are worried about it blocking out the light from their dinner room. Having had a chat with architect and others it’s not something that is taken into account by council for a single storey building, a bit different for double storey building. We was looking into doing a hipped or leaned out roof. We really don’t want a flat roof as we don’t think they look nice and they always lead to problems with water leaks in years to come. We wouldn’t of minded their concerns but they have build a very large (2.2 m high) shed around 6m away in front of the window and a small flat roofed extension on the back of their house all that leads to shadows being cast on to said window. And this is before you even talk about the junk yard* of metal and cars in the back garden…
- when I talk junk yard I really mean it. Old window frames, cement mixer, old gym equipment and a large pile of scrap metal.
The dodgy cables just hanging out, they obviously have done a rewire at one point but on the cheap when they did the kitchen
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Mud past, can’t clean it, it will just have to come off when the floor comes up
We hired a steamer but in the end have also borrowed one. Best advice I could give to anyone is use a wallpaper spiker to put holes in the paper to get the steam into the glue itself
Hot boxing on the steamer
Edited by mattvanders on Monday 8th August 09:36
Edited by mattvanders on Monday 8th August 09:38
Best thing to invest in for any tile removal work is a proper mini mango jack, picked one up from Amazon for £70, so cheap it’s not worth hiring one.
Said tile spacers still in place…
Well how are we going to get that bit down?
Where there is a will there is a way
Edited by mattvanders on Monday 8th August 09:53
mattvanders said:
We hired a steamer but in the end have also borrowed one. Best advice I could give to anyone is use a wallpaper spiker to put holes in the paper to get the steam into the glue itself
If you're planning on replastering or wallpapering again then get a stanley knife and just slice into the wallpaper. Pull off the outside layer of the wallpaper which will usually leave the backing paper glued to the wall, but wet that water and it'll come off easily with a scraper. Sometimes if you cut the wallpaper and wet it the water can get into the cuts and it'll come off without having to take the top layer off. Cheers guys, me and the misses have spent a long time looking for the write house and couldn’t find it for sale at the price we think for right. A project house wasn’t on our plan but to get one that works with our requirements it’s the only way. We have looked at all the houses in the area for sale/have been for sale to see what extensional work they have done to work out what works for us.
3m extension isn’t big enough to be a useable space but get around having to do planning permission. Some have knocked down the back of the house to make one big room but this will be more expensive and then leads to noise and smells going everywhere and if you do want a down stairs loo it need to either be under the stairs (small) or off the kitchen itself.
Going over 3m then leads to issues with how big you can go out while still keeping the correct angle of the roof (13 degrees required I think) for water run off unless you go down the route of a plan roof. You can raise the roof line up the side of the house but then they will hit the upstairs windows and need cutting around and a small flat spot below. And that’s before having to deal with the neighbours concerns of light. In the end we have desided to go dow the roughy of a gable end to get around flat roof issues but get the size of the extension. We have decided we want to go out 5m (so if it gets rejected we would go down to 4.5m which we would still be very happy with). The house it’s is around 8.5m long so we are added over 50% but with a 75ft garden we still have loads of space.
The next issue is is how wide we go, we have decided not to build up to the joining neighbours wall to get around party wall act and make construction a bit easier. But we want to go as wide as possible to fit the kitchen in and dinning table and make the existing dinning room a wall though snug. I have taken some advice from my dad and how he works (very strangely to most). He use to be a naval architect by trade and did the plans for his out house extension. Rather than design the extension and then put a kitchen in he designed a kitchen and then got the extension built to suit and we are going to do similar. We ended up going kitchen shopping before we got the keys.
We spent a whole day going to kitchen shops with very missed results. Started with the very high end shops with some spending a good amount of time explaining what to look out for and others not interested when we quested the cost involved (a very nice set of door handles that was kneeled for £200 a set! I’ve done machining on a lath so know they are not worth that and I could make my own if it came to it for cheaper lol!). We then went to Wren, did a lap and was very disappointed with build quality so walked out. On route to magnet we spotted a kitchen plan on an industrial estate so just popped in. We ended up being there for over 2 hours! The guy under stood our issues and pice concern but was happy to discuss what sort of draws and cupboards are cheaper to produce (most bang for your buck). Le man draws are very expensive for storage space so they are a no, door handles have no moving parts so buy cheap as you like. Vinyl raped chipboard is just as good as solid wood but you can’t change colour and expensive hinges and sliders make a cheap kitchen feel a million bucks. Design where discussed before colours… think we have found our kitchen designer!
3m extension isn’t big enough to be a useable space but get around having to do planning permission. Some have knocked down the back of the house to make one big room but this will be more expensive and then leads to noise and smells going everywhere and if you do want a down stairs loo it need to either be under the stairs (small) or off the kitchen itself.
Going over 3m then leads to issues with how big you can go out while still keeping the correct angle of the roof (13 degrees required I think) for water run off unless you go down the route of a plan roof. You can raise the roof line up the side of the house but then they will hit the upstairs windows and need cutting around and a small flat spot below. And that’s before having to deal with the neighbours concerns of light. In the end we have desided to go dow the roughy of a gable end to get around flat roof issues but get the size of the extension. We have decided we want to go out 5m (so if it gets rejected we would go down to 4.5m which we would still be very happy with). The house it’s is around 8.5m long so we are added over 50% but with a 75ft garden we still have loads of space.
The next issue is is how wide we go, we have decided not to build up to the joining neighbours wall to get around party wall act and make construction a bit easier. But we want to go as wide as possible to fit the kitchen in and dinning table and make the existing dinning room a wall though snug. I have taken some advice from my dad and how he works (very strangely to most). He use to be a naval architect by trade and did the plans for his out house extension. Rather than design the extension and then put a kitchen in he designed a kitchen and then got the extension built to suit and we are going to do similar. We ended up going kitchen shopping before we got the keys.
We spent a whole day going to kitchen shops with very missed results. Started with the very high end shops with some spending a good amount of time explaining what to look out for and others not interested when we quested the cost involved (a very nice set of door handles that was kneeled for £200 a set! I’ve done machining on a lath so know they are not worth that and I could make my own if it came to it for cheaper lol!). We then went to Wren, did a lap and was very disappointed with build quality so walked out. On route to magnet we spotted a kitchen plan on an industrial estate so just popped in. We ended up being there for over 2 hours! The guy under stood our issues and pice concern but was happy to discuss what sort of draws and cupboards are cheaper to produce (most bang for your buck). Le man draws are very expensive for storage space so they are a no, door handles have no moving parts so buy cheap as you like. Vinyl raped chipboard is just as good as solid wood but you can’t change colour and expensive hinges and sliders make a cheap kitchen feel a million bucks. Design where discussed before colours… think we have found our kitchen designer!
Condi said:
If you're planning on replastering or wallpapering again then get a stanley knife and just slice into the wallpaper. Pull off the outside layer of the wallpaper which will usually leave the backing paper glued to the wall, but wet that water and it'll come off easily with a scraper. Sometimes if you cut the wallpaper and wet it the water can get into the cuts and it'll come off without having to take the top layer off.
We will be painting the walls (once plastering). All of its done now but worth knowingMore photos…
The laminate flooring ceiling…
Finding spot light holes and spot lights behind the boards
Finally a bodge that wasn’t done by the previous owners, if it double use more zip tires
You might of noticed there isn’t a skip, because we aren’t living there we can’t leave one there as it would get filled up by others at our cost. We have been using and abusing the tip. It’s amazing what you can fit in a hatch back
Not a bad job from the 82 year old old man and just his hammer and chisel (honest)
Let’s get all breakingbad!
Removing all the old lagging
Finding something old under said lagging
1962!
The old coal store that has the boiler in it
There’s power in the garage so using it for tea and coffee making as it’s the only dust free area
And you can see the junk yard next door
The laminate flooring ceiling…
Finding spot light holes and spot lights behind the boards
Finally a bodge that wasn’t done by the previous owners, if it double use more zip tires
You might of noticed there isn’t a skip, because we aren’t living there we can’t leave one there as it would get filled up by others at our cost. We have been using and abusing the tip. It’s amazing what you can fit in a hatch back
Not a bad job from the 82 year old old man and just his hammer and chisel (honest)
Let’s get all breakingbad!
Removing all the old lagging
Finding something old under said lagging
1962!
The old coal store that has the boiler in it
There’s power in the garage so using it for tea and coffee making as it’s the only dust free area
And you can see the junk yard next door
That laminate cieling!
My auntie used to live in a house that was previously owned by a carpet salesman. All the rooms had pine mouldings/trim at waist height, maybe 1-1.2m off floor level, similar height to panelling.
Everything below the moulding was carpet. Either very short pile, or tiles.
My auntie used to live in a house that was previously owned by a carpet salesman. All the rooms had pine mouldings/trim at waist height, maybe 1-1.2m off floor level, similar height to panelling.
Everything below the moulding was carpet. Either very short pile, or tiles.
I feel like there is going to be a plastering course in your future to see if you can do it to a reasonable standard yourself, alternatively have you made friends with a plasterer yet?
Is that the neighbours extension in the pic? Is it an L shape?
Love the random 2 old fence panels in the run
Is that the neighbours extension in the pic? Is it an L shape?
Love the random 2 old fence panels in the run
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