Two Storey House Extension
Discussion
alock said:
=Day 3=
We've had our oven and washing machine temporarily connected up in the old store room to give us a kitchen for the next few months.
Bit of a late suggestion I know - did you think about moving out? We've had our oven and washing machine temporarily connected up in the old store room to give us a kitchen for the next few months.
We did an extension, a loft conversion, new roof, new kitchen, new bathrooms, rewired, replumbed and replastered (basically a new house) and the builder finished in 3 1/2 months. He did say it would've taken at least twice as long and god knows how much more in costs if we'd tried to live there while he was working.
It cost an extra £5k but in the grand scheme of things that was cheap and the convenience of being able to walk away from the building site was massive - it wasn't a glamorous rental but a 2 bed bungalow was all we needed for the four of us.
t, but I bet it was pretty bright!
Ranger 6 said:
Bit of a late suggestion I know - did you think about moving out?
We did an extension, a loft conversion, new roof, new kitchen, new bathrooms, rewired, replumbed and replastered (basically a new house) and the builder finished in 3 1/2 months. He did say it would've taken at least twice as long and god knows how much more in costs if we'd tried to live there while he was working.
It cost an extra £5k but in the grand scheme of things that was cheap and the convenience of being able to walk away from the building site was massive - it wasn't a glamorous rental but a 2 bed bungalow was all we needed for the four of us.
We did think about moving out. Our builder didn't think it would add much to the time (a few days) and it didn't effect his quote. I like spending 20 minutes every evening checking everything that has happened that day.We did an extension, a loft conversion, new roof, new kitchen, new bathrooms, rewired, replumbed and replastered (basically a new house) and the builder finished in 3 1/2 months. He did say it would've taken at least twice as long and god knows how much more in costs if we'd tried to live there while he was working.
It cost an extra £5k but in the grand scheme of things that was cheap and the convenience of being able to walk away from the building site was massive - it wasn't a glamorous rental but a 2 bed bungalow was all we needed for the four of us.
Don't fancy typing it all again now.
alock said:
We did think about moving out. Our builder didn't think it would add much to the time (a few days) and it didn't effect his quote. I like spending 20 minutes every evening checking everything that has happened that day.
Thanks - I just thought with that much disruption it may have helped - many people I've spoken to doing re-builds haven't even thought about it 
Looks great BTW
anonymous said:
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The two beams support two different parts of the house. A 10" high I-beam supports the old extension and is nearest to the camera in the panorama above. A 12" high I-beam supports the old rear wall of the house.Why have they done two beams? Haven't got a clue. I assume someone has shares in a steel fabrication company
When the pillars were both in the kitchen, the engineer reckoned two 10" beams would be OK. When one pillar moved to the utility room in our designs (about ½m longer), the beam needed upgrading.If I had to guess why we have two beams instead of one, it might be because of the two-storey extension that has not been built yet. This will have a beam across the top of the garage that supports the bedroom upstairs. This other beam will be directly in line with one of these two kitchen beams that has pre-drilled holes ready to be bolted to the next beam. What we will therefore have is a 12m beam made up of two 6m beams bolted together and another 6m beam that runs parallel with have of the 12m beam.
Bathroom
We've made a few decisions about the family bathroom. Unfortunately the company doesn't have a good 3D CAD package that produces fancy renderings. You'll therefore need to imagine bits from the following photos. The layout is still the same as shown in my post on 12th July.
We are having:
- 1700x800 bath
- 1200x900 curved quadrant shower
- Sink
- WC
- A good amount of storage
The next two pictures show what we are aiming for. The basin and WC will be encased in cabinets like these:
But the actual framing of the cabinets will be more like this (i.e. without the thick borders) and with the mirrored cabinets above:
Wall tiles will be within the show cubicle, between the basin/WC cabinets and the mirrored wall cabinets and also above the bath.
Day 46
Plastering finished. Electrics and painting being finished today. Kitchen arriving tomorrow.
The best thing about this picture is how dark the utility room looks. It is what you might consider normal brightness and yet due to the limited capabilities of the camera in my phone, it looks dark because of how much natural light is in the kitchen
Edited by alock on Saturday 24th August 09:02
Day 55
Most of kitchen now installed. Worktops have been measured and are being installed next week. Colour of doors on island are wrong but they will be swapped over when the worktop is installed.
Tiles and bathroom ordered and should be arriving in a few days. In about 3 weeks phase one should be complete. Then the big phase 2 can start
Things have been progressing very slowly recently.
Still waiting for plinths (with lights), skirting boards and TV socket face plate to be installed.
And the good news, is that the worktop they originally cut for the island was too small so they had to redo it. We managed to keep the incorrect one (for no cost) and with the off-cuts from the up-stands we have enough to do the utility room with. We assumed we would only have cheap laminate in the utility but it will now be quartz matching the kitchen.
Still waiting for plinths (with lights), skirting boards and TV socket face plate to be installed.
And the good news, is that the worktop they originally cut for the island was too small so they had to redo it. We managed to keep the incorrect one (for no cost) and with the off-cuts from the up-stands we have enough to do the utility room with. We assumed we would only have cheap laminate in the utility but it will now be quartz matching the kitchen.
Edited by alock on Monday 9th September 21:33
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