My house renovation

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Floor going down.

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Flooring making good progress

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James-06gep said:

Looks like it’s moving quick!

How wide is your hallway? It looks similar to mine. I’m about to convert my bungalow and I’m not sure if putting the stairs in my hall (1.8m wide) would be a bit of a squeeze with 0.9m left to get past.

Looking at your pictures it seems you’re going to have about to same distance left between your stairs and hall wall. I’d be interested to know how it feels when done.

I'll give it a measure when I'm over there at the weekend, it's not actually on the floor plan.
Of course without the stairs there it looks huge, but once the stairs and wine store goes in, it MIGHT feel a little tight, but I think it'll be ok, it certainly felt like a lot of room still when the previous staircase was still there.

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Davey S2 said:

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Bit more progress yesterday

Looking good but I can't say I'm a fan of the new minimalist staircase

Just waiting for the rope ladder to arrive.

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Staircase has gone in today, this should mean we can move back any day now!

Edited by UTH on Monday 19th April 14:06

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Bannisters now making progress





And upstairs hallway nearly done with the flooring

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Internal doors starting to go in

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Door to the utility room done:





Garage window done

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NickCQ said:

You should keep one piece of the old teak in a picture frame or something otherwise you will forget how it looked!

Am I being dumb? Which teak?
Although might be too late, pretty much everything is gone!

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Hugo Stiglitz said:

How did your neighbours get planning permission for that window overlooking one of your bedrooms/looking right in??

I assume it came after the other house was built.

Not sure I know which one you mean

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Under way with some painting!

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Hugo Stiglitz said:

On this one, with the Teddy on the bed! How did you manage to book all those trades. I'm struggling to get some at the moment.

Edited by Hugo Stiglitz on Thursday 22 April 18:14

It's my friend from hockey who is the carpenter/project manager and he's got a whole crew of various people who have been doing the work.

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Painted the upstairs landing this morning, one more coat to go on the ceiling

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No idea why they have flipped, I took them as normal on my phone. Bloody thing

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Retaining wall for the fallen fence has taken shape, panels up tomorrow I think

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Collapsed fence nearly complete





And the bit at the other end

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Bannister nearly done







Architrave going on as well

Edited by UTH on Wednesday 28th April 17:19

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The kitchen has arrived!

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Kitchen installation gone a bit further

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LocoBlade said:

Looking good, I'm not at all jealous that your entire house seems to be progressing quicker than my kitchen/diner on it's own

My latest headache is finding a tiler who doesn't seem hell bent on retiring early at my expense, one quoted over £4500 (excluding tiles) to tile just under 50sqm of bare room that will be level and ready to lay on which I can't image would take more than 3-4 days to do.

I must say I do feel very lucky that my mate and his team are so efficient. Apart from the expected days when they are at other jobs, which is always going to be understandable but frustrating, they have got things done at good pace and at a very high standard.

I do fear I'll be in for some shocks when we move onto phase 4 and want bathrooms done etc, and we start experiencing tile related issues like you are.