My Renovation

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A few from last week, rendering is now underway and a few more windows & doors.

It’s fair to say, we’ll not be in for Christmas.

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lewisf182 said:

That looks and is going to look fantastic!!

Hows your budget coming on from thw £70k? I’m about to renovate my standard 3 bed semi with a rear extension and all in should be about £85k. How you’ve done all that for £70 is incredible?!

£70k is a distant memory sadly.

Double that I’d have thought.

We’ve just decided to go the whole hog which added additional costs, including a new roof and new windows & doors

£85k is a healthy budget.

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lewisf182 said:

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lewisf182 said:

That looks and is going to look fantastic!!

Hows your budget coming on from thw £70k? I’m about to renovate my standard 3 bed semi with a rear extension and all in should be about £85k. How you’ve done all that for £70 is incredible?!

£70k is a distant memory sadly.

Double that I’d have thought.

We’ve just decided to go the whole hog which added additional costs, including a new roof and new windows & doors

£85k is a healthy budget.

Fair enough, strangely that makes me feel better as my build was going to look horrendously expensive haha.

I think you’ll get every penny back come remortgage time though with doing a proper job, looks great!

Your kitchen looks fantastic.

It’s surprising how it gobbles away at your budget.

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Tommy1000 said:

This all looks fantastic!

Where is your new front door from if you don't mind me asking?

Vintage Bespoke Joinery.

They’re making the following;

All windows and doors throughout
Oak staircase
Handmade Bespoke Kitchen

https://www.facebook.com/Vintage-Bespoke-Joinery-L...

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It’s from Lusso Stone and yes, it was horrendously heavy, 140kg which isn’t too bad but it’s shape and delicate nature made it tricky, I hired a Genie lift to get it up the gap where the stairs used to be.

https://www.lussostone.com/stone-resin-baths-c1/lu...

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Seems decent to me

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A bit of an update of our recent developments;

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Hahaha...its just the layout of the house, the secondary door used to access what was the extension, which iI think had one eye on it being a potential separate “granny” dwelling. It’s now access into the utility area.

The new french doors replace the old full height sliding pvc patio doors, to hopefully give an extra bit of privacy, they’ll be stone balustrade in front of the small patio area too.

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But if an update, well sort of at least

Edited by Coley88 on Sunday 8th December 17:13

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Rendering finished on the front and some scaffold down, we’re really happy with the finish.

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Junior Bianno said:

Looks amazing - very impressive! We're just about to start our own tired old house transformation, so this thread has been really useful.

You mentioned a budget of £120k in a previous post. Did you actually manage all of that - the extension, roof, windows, render etc within that. If you did I will be mightily relieved!

Thanks!!

It’ll be more like £160k all in (he says).

As it’s wales, I’m inventively on the side of a hill, so in order to have 5m of patio area the other side of the extension we had to remove 800-t of soil which wasn’t cheap. That in addition to the new retaining walls, steps and 100m2 patio were a significant additional cost when compared to flat ground.

There was areas would could’ve saved on, but it’ll be our family home for the foreseeable.

We just want to get back in there now!

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Not Hughes changes since the last update.

But progress nonetheless

Next key tasks

Big kitchen doors on
Staircase in
Kitchen tiled
Oak flooring down
Decorating
Kitchen in

Early March is the new move in deadline.








And a Horrible looking before photo (excuse the witchy looking thing)

Edited by Coley88 on Sunday 5th January 21:23

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James-06gep said:

It’s going to be a stunner of a house. Great work.

Where are you staying throughout the build? Rented?

Thanks....staying with my Wife’s parents.

Luckily their house is stunning and they’re very kind and easy going....plus she’s got 12-year old twin brothers are a great laugh.

It’ll very quiet when we’re back in but am looking forward to it now!

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Progress seems to be picking up a bit this week

Edited by Coley88 on Tuesday 14th January 22:06

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But of an update, it’s been a while...

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Should be in very soon. Can’t wait.

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ScottJB said:

Very, very nice. Cracking renovation that.

What's your wall colour out of interest?

Thanks. Appreciated.

Internally, cornforth white (which is a light grey), and wimborne white. Both f&b colour matched to Dulux

Windows & doors are RAL 7038 (agate grey, though has a pale green undertone)

Externally it’s Johnstone Silicone Render, colour Ivory.

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ScottJB said:

Thanks alot.

So those internal bedroom walls are cornforth white? Didn't expect it to look that grey - interesting.

That’s right. Odd considering “white” is in the name.

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It’s been a while...but here’s the latest

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Pleased to see the kitchen finally going in