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UTH

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Monday 18th January 2021
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Now that we've made a bit of progress I thought I'd put up a thread, no idea if anyone will be interested but at least it organises the photos!

Offer was accepted in the summer and we moved early October. We knew what we were getting ourselves in for, the house was bought off plan by the couple who were living there and hadn't been touched since they bought it, so it was a project!

The only photos on the listing:









The reason no interior shots were offered became obvious when we went inside - the elderly couple had big health problems, so the inside was setup almost like a mini hospital:








UTH

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When we moved in it was a relief to see that it had been emptied:












UTH

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We decided to get a few garden bits sorted, mainly because the back fence onto the road was falling down, so keen to get a new one up:










We also had to get rid of the huge tree by the patio:


UTH

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The Mrs did a top job of making the place pretty homely, even if only for a short time before we had to pack things away for work to start:















Edited by UTH on Monday 18th January 10:00

UTH

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Before we bought the place, a tree had fallen on the roof! Thankfully it was all repaired at the time, but the tree stump and ripped pavement outside the front of the house took months to finally sort out:






joshleb

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143 months

Monday 18th January 2021
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Ooo watching with interest!

UTH

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Monday 18th January 2021
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Work on the house gets underway with overboarding the ceilings and getting spotlights fitted downstairs.

The master bedroom becomes the storage room for some of the materials:





Holes drilled and plastering done:






















UTH

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Typical Iphone flipping some photos around!

PrinceRupert

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84 months

Monday 18th January 2021
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Love the big garage, very PH. Good luck (if my renovations experience is anything to go by, you will need it!)!.

UTH

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This weekend just gone was very productive, finally time to remove the kitchen and a couple of walls:

















So that's half the kitchen out and the internal pantry/cupboard walls down to give us the larger room.

UTH

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Sunday saw us remove this wall to give us a nice open plan room for the new kitchen and reception type area:







Only issue was a radiator falling off the 'mini wall' and is leaking slightly, so we're keeping the heating off until Wednesday when the two rads will be removed and we can remove the rest of that wall.

UTH

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Currently still some wallpaper to be removed from a few areas as well as the loose plaster:






UTH

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Pulling together some ideas for various bits:

Under the stairs:



Front door, something like this:



Ground floor flooring (with UFH) will look pretty much like this:






UTH

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That brings us up to today.
More walls to strop, skirting to remove, fireplace to take out, but we're getting there. Hopefully the ground floor flooring will be sorted mid-end Feb, then we can get the kitchen in.

MOBB

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126 months

Monday 18th January 2021
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Watching with interest as I'm probably 3/4 of the way through something similar, in fact our houses aren't dissimilar!


8-P

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259 months

Monday 18th January 2021
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Looks like a good project - have you had an asbestos survey?


UTH

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8-P said:
Looks like a good project - have you had an asbestos survey?
I did, yeah. Came back positive for all the ceilings, hence over-boarding then plastering rather than huge £££ removing it all.

8-P

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259 months

Monday 18th January 2021
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Good shout its "that" age

Coneyhurst Blue

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191 months

Monday 18th January 2021
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This is my under stairs wine stash.
I pulled it forward to the front of the of the space leaving only a small gap between door and wine rack, I knew the kids would just dump stuff inside the door if there was space for them to do so.
It's not temperature controlled, just a nice space, we think lit it looks lovely.
Also behind the wine rack is a really useful secret area hidden away, although, to get to it you need to move the wine which is a ball ache.

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Sheepshanks

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118 months

Monday 18th January 2021
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UTH said:
Is the landing floor solid - just wondered why you cut all those holes, apparently to get the wiring under the joists?