Our build thread, renovation and extension
Discussion
singlecoil said:
So what sort of furniture would you like?
Units which are deeper than 340mm and can be aligned to look like fully fitted furniture with a decent worktop.I think decent hotel like furniture is a good description rather than individual modules that are designed for a very small room.
cramorra said:
Thanks, I've aready earmarked quite a few bits from victoriaplumb already 
Here's a bit of an update.
Stud walls starting to go up, here's the landing looking through to the master bedroom.
Door to the master bedroom straight ahead, bathroom door space on the left and next to that door for the dressing room/bedroom.
Dressing room into master bedroom door.
Looking back onto the landing from the dressing room.
Few more tiles went on but hampered by rain on friday.
30KW Vaillant system boiler in place in the loft.
The underfloor heating spec requires 17kW just for the heating, we've also potentially could have 3 bathrooms in use at any one time and a 300L pressurised cylinder to heat up. We got a good deal on it as my brother in law is a plumber, he also likes the Vaillant boilers so we went with his recommendation.
Muncher said:
The underfloor heating spec requires 17kW just for the heating, we've also potentially could have 3 bathrooms in use at any one time and a 300L pressurised cylinder to heat up. We got a good deal on it as my brother in law is a plumber, he also likes the Vaillant boilers so we went with his recommendation.
seems like with cars - there is now replacement fo hp apart from more of it..... 
The shopping spree is really cranking up...
Bath bought
Basin for the front ensuite to sit under the window
Tap for it
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Looking at something like this for the downstairs WC to sit in the corner too, maybe a different colour. It's going to have a resin inset penny floor which should look quite different.
Also less interesting bits like TV aerials, sky dishes and 300L pressurised hot water tanks have turned up.
There have been some big changes in recent days so I'll post some photos shortly
Bath bought
Basin for the front ensuite to sit under the window
Tap for it
Looking at something like this for the downstairs WC to sit in the corner too, maybe a different colour. It's going to have a resin inset penny floor which should look quite different.
Also less interesting bits like TV aerials, sky dishes and 300L pressurised hot water tanks have turned up.
There have been some big changes in recent days so I'll post some photos shortly
Study/small bedroom wall in
Sunpipes doing their job in reverse!
Downstairs WC
One side of the exterior skin of the study window done
Bathroom looking onto the landing
Dressing room looking onto the bathroom
Back of the airing cupboard wall and UFH pipes starting to come through the floor
Chimney pot on
Barely visible in the dark but there's the new chimney
Starting to get a good feel for the room sizes now. The roofers are back tomorrow to carry on with the tiles and fingers crossed the windows are being delivered on tuesday...
Sunpipes doing their job in reverse!
Downstairs WC
One side of the exterior skin of the study window done
Bathroom looking onto the landing
Dressing room looking onto the bathroom
Back of the airing cupboard wall and UFH pipes starting to come through the floor
Chimney pot on
Barely visible in the dark but there's the new chimney
Starting to get a good feel for the room sizes now. The roofers are back tomorrow to carry on with the tiles and fingers crossed the windows are being delivered on tuesday...
jules_s said:
It never ceases to amaze me how I still get satisfaction to walk into a room you have only ever seen on paper
Any reason you are doing all the studs in wood?
Makes running the services easier and whilst there is a huge steel underneath, there are no supporting walls whatsoever downstairs on the new part.Any reason you are doing all the studs in wood?
Horrible cold and wet day today so only made a little progress.
Sloped section of room now tiled
The new chimney with aerial mounted
Tiles laid out for the valley section
300L pressurised cylinder placed in the loft, looks like the space shuttle!
Improvised scaffolding and ladder moved to the old chimney, parts of it need repointing but our bricky won't do it without scaffolding and the scaffolders will charge extra for that and in any case take quite a while to getting round to doing it. So we borrowed some bits of their scaffolding and move it round to that chimney to make it a bit safer working off a ladder round there.
All the tiles appear on from this side, apart from the ridge ones.
I'm going back tomorrow to repoint the chimney myself from the ladder, weather permitting!
Sloped section of room now tiled
The new chimney with aerial mounted
Tiles laid out for the valley section
300L pressurised cylinder placed in the loft, looks like the space shuttle!
Improvised scaffolding and ladder moved to the old chimney, parts of it need repointing but our bricky won't do it without scaffolding and the scaffolders will charge extra for that and in any case take quite a while to getting round to doing it. So we borrowed some bits of their scaffolding and move it round to that chimney to make it a bit safer working off a ladder round there.
All the tiles appear on from this side, apart from the ridge ones.
I'm going back tomorrow to repoint the chimney myself from the ladder, weather permitting!
Bit of a trying day today.
The window suppliers who are due to deliver tomorrow morning, sent me at email at 3pm asking for payment in full by 9am or they would not deliver. I had already paid a £4k deposit on placing the order and they now wanted the balance for the windows of £10k before they delivered any of them. Trying to get the money sent over proved tricky without the ID for a chaps payment and the amount being too much for faster payment (or so I was told) but the window suppliers were not overly helpful and when I pointed out the contract I signed said payment on completion they told me I had signed the wrong contract which was in fact a supply and fit one. I pointe out whatever was in their supply only contract was irrelevant as I'd never even seen it!
Also got a bit of an issue with the hip tiles, the ones we bought second hand don't fit well enough but we took a calculated decision at the time. There don't seem to be many alternatives readily available apart from new ones which won't match and cost 8x as much!
Hopefully tomorrow will prove better when the windows arrive!
The window suppliers who are due to deliver tomorrow morning, sent me at email at 3pm asking for payment in full by 9am or they would not deliver. I had already paid a £4k deposit on placing the order and they now wanted the balance for the windows of £10k before they delivered any of them. Trying to get the money sent over proved tricky without the ID for a chaps payment and the amount being too much for faster payment (or so I was told) but the window suppliers were not overly helpful and when I pointed out the contract I signed said payment on completion they told me I had signed the wrong contract which was in fact a supply and fit one. I pointe out whatever was in their supply only contract was irrelevant as I'd never even seen it!
Also got a bit of an issue with the hip tiles, the ones we bought second hand don't fit well enough but we took a calculated decision at the time. There don't seem to be many alternatives readily available apart from new ones which won't match and cost 8x as much!
Hopefully tomorrow will prove better when the windows arrive!
That sounds like a very dodgy business practice indeed. 3pm and they're due tomorrow am? How has the relationship been up to this point?
Assuming you get through that little wrinkle, I'm insanely jealous if you can rewindow that house for £14k. I'm at double that and then some (including doors and skylights).
Assuming you get through that little wrinkle, I'm insanely jealous if you can rewindow that house for £14k. I'm at double that and then some (including doors and skylights).
Muncher said:
Bit of a trying day today.
The window suppliers who are due to deliver tomorrow morning, sent me at email at 3pm asking for payment in full by 9am or they would not deliver. I had already paid a £4k deposit on placing the order and they now wanted the balance for the windows of £10k before they delivered any of them. Trying to get the money sent over proved tricky without the ID for a chaps payment and the amount being too much for faster payment (or so I was told) but the window suppliers were not overly helpful and when I pointed out the contract I signed said payment on completion they told me I had signed the wrong contract which was in fact a supply and fit one. I pointe out whatever was in their supply only contract was irrelevant as I'd never even seen it!
Also got a bit of an issue with the hip tiles, the ones we bought second hand don't fit well enough but we took a calculated decision at the time. There don't seem to be many alternatives readily available apart from new ones which won't match and cost 8x as much!
Hopefully tomorrow will prove better when the windows arrive!
Not these people based in Norwich?The window suppliers who are due to deliver tomorrow morning, sent me at email at 3pm asking for payment in full by 9am or they would not deliver. I had already paid a £4k deposit on placing the order and they now wanted the balance for the windows of £10k before they delivered any of them. Trying to get the money sent over proved tricky without the ID for a chaps payment and the amount being too much for faster payment (or so I was told) but the window suppliers were not overly helpful and when I pointed out the contract I signed said payment on completion they told me I had signed the wrong contract which was in fact a supply and fit one. I pointe out whatever was in their supply only contract was irrelevant as I'd never even seen it!
Also got a bit of an issue with the hip tiles, the ones we bought second hand don't fit well enough but we took a calculated decision at the time. There don't seem to be many alternatives readily available apart from new ones which won't match and cost 8x as much!
Hopefully tomorrow will prove better when the windows arrive!
http://www.uniglaze2.co.uk/
Seems lots of people have problems with the windows. Hope yours gets resolved today Muncher. I was speaking to someone else doing a build - their window lead time was ten weeks, 14 months later and they still haven't got them all on an approx £30k spend. Ouch.
Our windows turned up Weds, on time. We got them throught Howarth Timber (they have a small window/door offshoot), they're great quality, very reasonable, came on time and the customer service has been second to none. No affiliation with them but I've been really delighted with both service and product, which makes a refreshing change
Keep us updated Muncher, looking great so far!
Our windows turned up Weds, on time. We got them throught Howarth Timber (they have a small window/door offshoot), they're great quality, very reasonable, came on time and the customer service has been second to none. No affiliation with them but I've been really delighted with both service and product, which makes a refreshing change
Keep us updated Muncher, looking great so far!
skintemma said:
Seems lots of people have problems with the windows. Hope yours gets resolved today Muncher. I was speaking to someone else doing a build - their window lead time was ten weeks, 14 months later and they still haven't got them all on an approx £30k spend. Ouch.
Our windows turned up Weds, on time. We got them throught Howarth Timber (they have a small window/door offshoot), they're great quality, very reasonable, came on time and the customer service has been second to none. No affiliation with them but I've been really delighted with both service and product, which makes a refreshing change
Keep us updated Muncher, looking great so far!
I paid £12K up front to Burdens UK........No windows. Our windows turned up Weds, on time. We got them throught Howarth Timber (they have a small window/door offshoot), they're great quality, very reasonable, came on time and the customer service has been second to none. No affiliation with them but I've been really delighted with both service and product, which makes a refreshing change
Keep us updated Muncher, looking great so far!
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