New house build - Luxembourg
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I had a cheeky nose at what the guys have done, and they are motoring on with the lining paper and wooden fillet trim....
Living room from dining room end:
Wooden fillet in the wall/ceiling joint. It will be painted the same as the ceilings everywhere:
This photo's from July. I didn't like the fact that the angled plasterboard infill below the window slopes downwards at a varying angle to the right hand end:
It seems the decorators noticed that too, and they've unpicked what the plasterers did to straighten it. It's a BIT better:
ETA: New furniture we'd ordered has arrived at the store and they're itching to deliver it so it's not at risk of getting damaged in their warehouse. It's arrived much sooner than expected so we're collecting that with the store's van on Saturday. At least we know we don't have to move the existing TV shelves, dining table, sideboard, etc., to the new house
Living room from dining room end:
Wooden fillet in the wall/ceiling joint. It will be painted the same as the ceilings everywhere:
This photo's from July. I didn't like the fact that the angled plasterboard infill below the window slopes downwards at a varying angle to the right hand end:
It seems the decorators noticed that too, and they've unpicked what the plasterers did to straighten it. It's a BIT better:
ETA: New furniture we'd ordered has arrived at the store and they're itching to deliver it so it's not at risk of getting damaged in their warehouse. It's arrived much sooner than expected so we're collecting that with the store's van on Saturday. At least we know we don't have to move the existing TV shelves, dining table, sideboard, etc., to the new house
Edited by 5potTurbo on Tuesday 10th September 11:25
Decorators have papered the ground and 1st floors and primed all the ceilings on those floors too, except the office area and 'technical room'. The garage interior walls and ceiling are also painted.
The tiling I originally omitted to order and have fitted in the ground floor WC is now also completed.
The tiling I originally omitted to order and have fitted in the ground floor WC is now also completed.
Sparks, decorators and plumbers have all been busy in the last week, and all working at the same time, so I can not doubt the project planning of the main contractors, despite me giving them a hard time to deliver before the summer holidays.
Consumer unit and server cabinet are up in the (painted) garage, as are the 2x2 fluorescent lights and power for the garage door opener. Sparks have also got on with as much 2nd fix in the rooms around the decorators as they can, so there are no more loose wires hanging out of the walls.
Plumbers started fitting sanitary ware on Thu: V&B Subway 2.0 suspended toilets, V&B Subway 2.0 basins with matching furniture (600mm in daughters shower room, 800mm in bathroom, 1000mm in en suite), Grohe taps and shower fittings, Sanijura cabinets or mirrors with LED inset lights and 1/3 Hueppe shower screens in place.
I expect to see quite a difference on Thu when I'll next be able to visit the site as I'm working in Laaandon next Mon-Wed.
Consumer unit and server cabinet are up in the (painted) garage, as are the 2x2 fluorescent lights and power for the garage door opener. Sparks have also got on with as much 2nd fix in the rooms around the decorators as they can, so there are no more loose wires hanging out of the walls.
Plumbers started fitting sanitary ware on Thu: V&B Subway 2.0 suspended toilets, V&B Subway 2.0 basins with matching furniture (600mm in daughters shower room, 800mm in bathroom, 1000mm in en suite), Grohe taps and shower fittings, Sanijura cabinets or mirrors with LED inset lights and 1/3 Hueppe shower screens in place.
I expect to see quite a difference on Thu when I'll next be able to visit the site as I'm working in Laaandon next Mon-Wed.
Pics taken on Thu, although when I visited on Sat much more had been completed.
Bathroom basin and furniture, From Villeroy & Boch "Subway 2.0" range, cabinet in grey oak:
And for pvapour
the cabling in the garage is much, much tidier now!
Main consumer unit cabinet on the left (the door's been removed to make the sparks' life easier), and on the right, the network cabinet. That cabinet houses all the network connections for the house, plus the internet router, which LuxP&T have now upgraded to Fritz!Box, which work very well.
Wifi on each floor will be provided by Apple Airport.
Bathroom basin and furniture, From Villeroy & Boch "Subway 2.0" range, cabinet in grey oak:
And for pvapour
the cabling in the garage is much, much tidier now!Main consumer unit cabinet on the left (the door's been removed to make the sparks' life easier), and on the right, the network cabinet. That cabinet houses all the network connections for the house, plus the internet router, which LuxP&T have now upgraded to Fritz!Box, which work very well.
Wifi on each floor will be provided by Apple Airport.
5potTurbo said:
Ah, yes, zbc! I tried, at least! 
V&B used to be made in a suburb of Luxembourg city (Rollingergrund), but it's all closed down now. Only a factory outlet (seconds) and a showroom exists now. It's all from Germany!
It's only the tableware that was ever made in Luxembourg (or at least for many, many years). The German factory is only in Mettlach, about 20km from the border. Chances are some of your stuff will have been made here and the rest probably in Hungary - if you're really interested and it hasn't been installed yet you'll find a barcode on it somewhere. If you PM me the number I can tell you exactly where it was made, the name of the person who made it and what the weather was doing when he did it.V&B used to be made in a suburb of Luxembourg city (Rollingergrund), but it's all closed down now. Only a factory outlet (seconds) and a showroom exists now. It's all from Germany!
Thanks, ZBC, not sure that info's necessary, but useful to know it's possible.
Since I've been working in London much of this week, I've not seen the interior of the house in daylight since last weekend.
I'm looking forward to seeing progress this weekend. My wife popped there this morning and said the interior decoration's now almost finished, as is the sanitary ware installation.
I'll get some pics up over the weekend.
that cabinet is HUGE, if i hadn't seen what was underneath I'd say there was no need 
looks like a control centre for some large office block!
good to see and hear that your back on track for an early move, I can feel the enthusiasm again oh for that right now....
love the beardiness of the barcode look up
only PH takes things to this level
looks like a control centre for some large office block! good to see and hear that your back on track for an early move, I can feel the enthusiasm again
oh for that right now....love the beardiness of the barcode look up
only PH takes things to this level Pvapour said:
love the beardiness of the barcode look up only PH takes things to this level
It's rarely particularly useful but I was once on a building site just outside Delhi with the owner of the Luxury Shopping Mall that they were building and 70 of our WCs he planned to install. His contractor was nervous because the back of the piece wasn't as neat as it should have been and he was worried that the pieces might leak once installed. I explained about the barcodes and he picked 5 pieces at random and I rang up the office there and then and got dates and details of all the leak testing that had been done on the pieces. only PH takes things to this level Ok, zbc, your challenge..... Here's a barcode from under one of the V&B items
The code is 59/250 148 233-2
Nck, here's the main fuse board under the stairs. Rather tidy, I think, although not sure why the pic's still rotated
The cables coming in to the board have all been siliconed in, too:
Bathroom, so far:
I want to 'extend' the existing driveway to make a parking space next to it on the corner of our plot, or it'll be a rather "dead" space. Here's the area:
Has anyone laid those lattice concrete slabs that permit grass to grow through? I was thinking of using those so the area would be quite solid, but still look green. The local council wouldn't permit block work across that area as I'd already widened the driveway, added a path and extended the patio quite some way.
Things left to do on site:
- finish interior decoration
- small amount of 2nd fix sanitary ware
- 2nd fix electrics and testing
- commissioning of heating/ventilation system, and testing
- interior doors and frames
- finish tiled plinths around door frames
- install granite sills in daughters' bedrooms
- install TV distribution matrix
- install satellite dish in rear garden
- laying the garden
- smoke blower test to ensure A energy rating certification
- damned thorough cleaning before the keys are handed over to us
- THEN we can have our kitchen fitted
We still have to order,
- American fridge freezer (we've chosen a plumbed in LG with the small exterior access door within the main fridge door) can't find it cheaper than €1,599 in Auchan
- lighting from Guy at EcoLED, and install that
- a whole load of new bedroom furniture for our bedroom and both daughters' bedrooms, although most of that's 'off the shelf' from (p)Ikea
- 4 Freesat receiver/recorder boxes
- mailbox, since they go next to your driveway/pavement. We found a nice one in Belgian 'blue' (grey) stone which stands about 1.2m high. Once ordered, they're delivered in 2-3 weeks. I'll need a cement base for it, though, so that may have to wait until Spring time if the ground too solid/cold when we're ready for it
- .... I think that's about it!
The code is 59/250 148 233-2
Nck, here's the main fuse board under the stairs. Rather tidy, I think, although not sure why the pic's still rotated
The cables coming in to the board have all been siliconed in, too:
Bathroom, so far:
I want to 'extend' the existing driveway to make a parking space next to it on the corner of our plot, or it'll be a rather "dead" space. Here's the area:
Has anyone laid those lattice concrete slabs that permit grass to grow through? I was thinking of using those so the area would be quite solid, but still look green. The local council wouldn't permit block work across that area as I'd already widened the driveway, added a path and extended the patio quite some way.
Things left to do on site:
- finish interior decoration
- small amount of 2nd fix sanitary ware
- 2nd fix electrics and testing
- commissioning of heating/ventilation system, and testing
- interior doors and frames
- finish tiled plinths around door frames
- install granite sills in daughters' bedrooms
- install TV distribution matrix
- install satellite dish in rear garden
- laying the garden
- smoke blower test to ensure A energy rating certification
- damned thorough cleaning before the keys are handed over to us
- THEN we can have our kitchen fitted
We still have to order,
- American fridge freezer (we've chosen a plumbed in LG with the small exterior access door within the main fridge door) can't find it cheaper than €1,599 in Auchan
- lighting from Guy at EcoLED, and install that
- a whole load of new bedroom furniture for our bedroom and both daughters' bedrooms, although most of that's 'off the shelf' from (p)Ikea
- 4 Freesat receiver/recorder boxes
- mailbox, since they go next to your driveway/pavement. We found a nice one in Belgian 'blue' (grey) stone which stands about 1.2m high. Once ordered, they're delivered in 2-3 weeks. I'll need a cement base for it, though, so that may have to wait until Spring time if the ground too solid/cold when we're ready for it
- .... I think that's about it!
Edited by 5potTurbo on Sunday 29th September 13:25
All the interior doors are fitted. The pic's not great (Blackberry in poor light, and despite rotating it, it's still wrong!) but you get the idea:
That's the kitchen, ahead, and the understairs cupboard, right, from the entrance hall.
It also looks like the garden laying could be in the offing soon as it's all been weeded, rotivated and raked over to level it out. The conduits for the satellite dish, however, are in the wrong place. Arse.
The conduits should be closer to the road, in the foreground. I don't want to see the dish when I'm on the patio.
That's the kitchen, ahead, and the understairs cupboard, right, from the entrance hall.
It also looks like the garden laying could be in the offing soon as it's all been weeded, rotivated and raked over to level it out. The conduits for the satellite dish, however, are in the wrong place. Arse.
The conduits should be closer to the road, in the foreground. I don't want to see the dish when I'm on the patio.
5potTurbo said:
All the interior doors are fitted. The pic's not great (Blackberry in poor light, and despite rotating it, it's still wrong!) but you get the idea:
That's the kitchen, ahead, and the understairs cupboard, right, from the entrance hall.
It also looks like the garden laying could be in the offing soon as it's all been weeded, rotivated and raked over to level it out. The conduits for the satellite dish, however, are in the wrong place. Arse.
The conduits should be closer to the road, in the foreground. I don't want to see the dish when I'm on the patio.
It's looking great 5PT! You all must be very excited about moving in. That's the kitchen, ahead, and the understairs cupboard, right, from the entrance hall.
It also looks like the garden laying could be in the offing soon as it's all been weeded, rotivated and raked over to level it out. The conduits for the satellite dish, however, are in the wrong place. Arse.
The conduits should be closer to the road, in the foreground. I don't want to see the dish when I'm on the patio.
Thanks, we're a way off still for the moment, but it's now much less like an empty box.
My wife's sorted the sparks out this morning for the satellite cables and also that they've mounted the exterior lights on the rear of the house at different heights
.
The satellite cabling being moved now is just in time as the garden's being turfed today!
Is October a good time to lay turf?
It's already down to 3C-5C at night here.
ETA: Apparently early Autumn is the ideal time to lay turf.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/l...
My wife's sorted the sparks out this morning for the satellite cables and also that they've mounted the exterior lights on the rear of the house at different heights
.The satellite cabling being moved now is just in time as the garden's being turfed today!
Is October a good time to lay turf?
It's already down to 3C-5C at night here.
ETA: Apparently early Autumn is the ideal time to lay turf.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/l...
Edited by 5potTurbo on Thursday 3rd October 09:11
5potTurbo said:
Ok, zbc, your challenge..... Here's a barcode from under one of the V&B items
The code is 59/250 148 233-2
Bah, you picked the week I was out of office. I'll post up something here next week and PM you the rest. You don't want everyone to know that yours fell off the back of a lorry somewhere do you?The code is 59/250 148 233-2
The grass seed's been sown, the garden's not being turfed!
Second fix sparks carries on a pace and the interior decorating's all finished.
I have noticed though that one of the interior doors, purchased at great expense, has already been damaged, so I'll be wanting the contractor to replace that.
I've a few long haul business trips coming up, so even if we were to get the keys in 2 weeks, we won't be in a position to move until the beginning of December.
My wife's been calling the kitchen fitters over the last 3 days to request a delay by a few weeks, but they've not called back yet.
Meanwhile, I'm orf to Laaandon (for the 2nd time this week) today, back tomorrow.
Second fix sparks carries on a pace and the interior decorating's all finished.
I have noticed though that one of the interior doors, purchased at great expense, has already been damaged, so I'll be wanting the contractor to replace that.
I've a few long haul business trips coming up, so even if we were to get the keys in 2 weeks, we won't be in a position to move until the beginning of December.
My wife's been calling the kitchen fitters over the last 3 days to request a delay by a few weeks, but they've not called back yet.
Meanwhile, I'm orf to Laaandon (for the 2nd time this week) today, back tomorrow.
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