Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: IanDG on 17 September, 2019, 12:07:08 am
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The start of a renovation thread for Mrs P. (and everyone else who asked)
Not the real name but you'll know where I'm coming from. Location mentioned elsewhere on the forum. An 1800s cottage that has been extended. On the market for at least 5 years with no takers until this mug came along.
The original cottage is right of the chimney:
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This wall faces South East. The far window is the main bedroom. This side of the front door is the dining room. A later extension on the left is the kitchen.
The back of the cottage.
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Original cottage and kitchen extension on the right, I think the nearest pitched roof was the first extension (because removing plasterboard inside the house - more to follow - revealed a door and window). The bit on the left with the patio door is a 1990s extension - the lounge. The redbrick utility room is the 'back door' into the kitchen with the door/steps to a small cellar.
Front of the cottage - parallel to the road
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The front of the building was probably the second (or third) extension - depending on when the kitchen was added. Faces North East. The nearest window (1st pic) is the main bedroom (2 windows facing SE and NE catching the morning light :thumbsup:). An extra door - original owner thinks it was used as the village post office at some time. Middle window is the second bedroom (same room as the door). The nearest window (second pic where the brickwork changes) is the living room (patio door on the opposite wall).
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The living room extension with the bathroom on the right and the third bedroom (to be the man - my 'junk' - room) nearest.
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Yay! Drove down today, not that many miles from you. Back up soon.
This looks a wonderful project :thumbsup:
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Yay! Drove down today, not that many miles from you. Back up soon.
This looks a wonderful project :thumbsup:
Let me know when you next head north and call in :)
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Looks like a job for George Clarke ..... just get those bi-fold doors on order!
Keep the Forum posted with pics.
Rob
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Looks interesting! Thanks :thumbsup:
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Lots to like there.
What is the join between the original and new like? Decent amount of lead with a good overlap on that connection I hope?
Some roof ladders might be a good investment. The roofline is low and shallow so you can easily do the work without scaffolding.
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Hi, just checked out where you are. We have been up to Cummertrees a few times in the motorhome and really like it up there.
Mrs. M likes it for the lack of hills and we both like how quiet it is .
Hope the cottage turns out to be everything that you both want.
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Looks like a job for George Clarke ..... just get those bi-fold doors on order!
Keep the Forum posted with pics.
Rob
Had to google George Clarke :D
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Lots to like there.
What is the join between the original and new like? Decent amount of lead with a good overlap on that connection I hope?
Some roof ladders might be a good investment. The roofline is low and shallow so you can easily do the work without scaffolding.
Don't know, I haven't been on the roof and the roofer hasn't been round yet. There has been a leak from the channel between the two apex roofs at some time in the past and the roof of the original cottage has a 'wave'.
The flat (rubber) roof has deteriorated and needs repair - going to replace with a gently sloping pitched roof.
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Hi, just checked out where you are. We have been up to Cummertrees a few times in the motorhome and really like it up there.
Mrs. M likes it for the lack of hills and we both like how quiet it is .
Hope the cottage turns out to be everything that you both want.
Great network of quiet lanes. A quiet backroad (NCN7) into Dumfries and not too far to hills and forest tracks :)
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Looks like a job for George Clarke ..... just get those bi-fold doors on order!
Keep the Forum posted with pics.
Rob
Had to google George Clarke :D
Ah - he'll also design you a kitchen with the must-have island unit ;D
Rob
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The rooms:
Kitchen
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Bathroom:
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Lounge:
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Main bedroom:
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2nd Bedroom:
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3rd Bedroom/2nd Sitting Room/My office:
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Dining Room:
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Week 1:
Cleared all the floor coverings.
Fenced an area of garden off for the dogs.
Adjusted the patio door so it opens and closes without a kick.
Drained watertanks and boiler and removed a couple of radiators.
Started to get the hedge under control.
Started to clear plant growth from around cottage that was covering air bricks.
Stripped out the bathroom suite (except the loo) and (almost) stripped the walls back to the brickwork.
Made some exploratory holes in other walls.
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Interesting wooden beam in the bathroom! An odd mix of stone and red brick. Exciting!
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Looks great. Love projects like this!
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Started with the bathroom. The tiles were not doing their job and water was getting behind and the wall behind the shower had a damp issue as a result and some of the plaster had already fallen off exposing the brick wall.
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The place was on the market for about 5 to 6 years following a divorce and I don't think the guy had done any cleaning since - the bathroom was minging. We wanted to replace the bath for a shower anyway (with a low ceiling and me being over 6ft I would probably have to crouch to use the above bath shower) and panel the walls to hide the exposed pipework.
Tiles around the bath came away easy as did the wet plaster - exposing an old wooden lintel of an old door in the original wall.
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Banging away at the external wall revealed lath and plaster - all to be removed and replaced with insulation and panels.
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Removing tiles and plaster on the other wall revealed red brick - I assume used to make the dividing wall when the bathroom was added (prior to/instead of plasterboard).
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The ceiling was mould stained - so that came out as well
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Removed the door and tried to jemmy the door frame out - but the whole wall moved. So that's staying until I talk to the builder. It doesn't appear to support anything so the whole wall can probably come out to be replaced with a panel wall?
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So bathroom is nearly gutted. A bit more plaster to remove on the original wall and around the loo, then find out what the builder wants me to do with the door wall and exposed pipework :)
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Interesting wooden beam in the bathroom! An odd mix of stone and red brick. Exciting!
Think the red brick was used to make the dividing wall at the time the bathroom was put in.
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Looks great. Love projects like this!
Me too! If I could find some time free I would come and help. Here is what I have been up to this week - another story for another day:
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This is getting me excited - having done up/renovated a couple of houses many years ago and my daughter's flat last year - we're going to see a "doer upper" house on Monday :thumbsup:
Upside is that we have the luxury of being able to buy, do the work and then sell our exisiting house.
Rob
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Sounds like you are having fun!
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Finished getting the hedge under control today - which has pleased a number of people in the village :)
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Deanne even found the garden path :)
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You don't hang about, do you?
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A friend once bought a house with an overgrown hedge which had a tunnel, like yours had, to get through the front gate. His house became known as The Hole In The Hedge.
I bought a house in about 1984 that had about 5 or 6 acres of land, about 70% grassed and the rest wooded . . . we found a small stone-built barn when we cleared some of the woods . . . and in amongst the detritus in the barn - mainly old furniture and garden tools - found someone's porn stash (well, a load of old pre- and post-pubic hair Playboy mags!)
Rob
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A friend once bought a house with an overgrown hedge which had a tunnel, like yours had, to get through the front gate. His house became known as The Hole In The Hedge.
I bought a house in about 1984 that had about 5 or 6 acres of land, about 70% grassed and the rest wooded . . . we found a small stone-built barn when we cleared some of the woods . . . and in amongst the detritus in the barn - mainly old furniture and garden tools - found someone's porn stash (well, a load of old pre- and post-pubic hair Playboy mags!)
Rob
;D
They turn up everywhere - friend of mine found a stash under the floorboards when he renovated a house on Lewis.
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One wall from the bathroom now gone - might even take the brick wall out on the left (it moves if you give it a good push) and have it replaced with a stud wall. That would also give a few more inches for a wider shower tray.
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I admire the energy you clearly have, to undertake this, Ian.
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Also removed some ceiling to investigate a stained area from a leak. Beaten the crap out of the walls in other rooms too but more of that later.
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The floorplan.
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A Utility room has been added next to the kitchen and the Lounge/Dining Room have been altered to give a corridor and a 'bedroom/study' (with an external door).
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Quite the project. Looking forward to seeing the progress.
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Yes.
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The first house I owned had the bathroom directly off the kitchen, downstairs. It was an old farm workers cottage and quite basic. One of the first jobs was to move that door to come off the living room, to give more kitchen space. Living room ended up with three doors and the understairs cupboard off it though.
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Fantastic progress!
I am not used to seeing a bathroom so far from the kitchen.
It's not too obvious whether the scullery came before the toilet.
Got me wondering where the bog was at my great aunt's, that house still had the aga for heating in the main room though nan would cook the Pancakes on the gas burners in the scullery out the back.
Theres a possibility it was at the top of the stairs, or off the comfortable room
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Google search of old maps this morning. The cottage is shown on the 1861 OS map, so older than we thought. It's the 'blob' on the corner of the lane (SE of quarry and SW of the school) that leads to the Saw Mill, Hope Cottage and Woodside.
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That's cool :)
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Like that map work. :)
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Maps are cool. IanDGs are way cooler.
I have my trowel, sledgehammer and Dremel packed, ready to visit. ;D
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Maps are cool. IanDGs are way cooler.
I have my trowel, sledgehammer and Dremel packed, ready to visit. ;D
... from the look of it you'll need a VERY BIG Dremel ;D
Rob
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Watching with great interest.
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Another week passed. Had help this week as Mrs G took some leave from work. Bashed walls in the hall, second bedroom, main bedroom and dining room - and shifted a shit load of rubbish to the local tip.
The second bedroom -
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Got rid of the radiator and cleared all the lath and plaster from the outside wall
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Ripping plasterboard from the inside wall joining wall to main bedroom (originally an outside wall) revealed an alcove with shelves.
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The walls now cleared
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A new stud wall will go in where the ceiling height changes to create a second (spare bedroom) and a work room for Deanne
While remocing plasterboard around the external door and adjoining wall, a sheet of plasterboard fell from the roof - The roof and joists above looks good (unlike the joists in the main bedroom).
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Some rotten floorboards found (close to one of the radiator pipes) probably resulting from a leaky radiator
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A bit more work on this room completed today. The alcove has red brick behind the plaster and oak beam above so was probably a door into the original build - will take some pics tomorrow (after the dust settles).
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Fascinating to watch, thanks
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To get this far with the Asbestos Palace our refurbishers took approximately 240,000 years.
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Also finished stripping the back of the bathroom wall (in the hallway to the lounge). A mix of plasterboard and lath and plaster.
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Lovely stone wall behind. The oak lintel found on the bathroom side was definitely above an original door.
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Also found a sandstone lintel that looks like it was above a window - so this was probably an external wall in the past
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The wall is now finished
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I am impressed with how far back you are stripping the place, amazed at the speed you are working at, and wondering where you are sleeping while all this is going on - in a tent?
We are in a rent. Sold in Stornoway and moved to Dumfries in May and have a 6 month lease (until 10th November) with the option to extend (have to give 2 months notice). Aiming for a 4 month turn around (move in early next year?) - I gut the place then the builders come in.
I am retired so have no other commitments and can spend all my day working on the cottage - generally starting at 10 am and finishing at 7 pm - that's 9 hrs a day.
Mrs G has also had the week off work and cleared a lot of wall (clearing laths and plaster) leaving me to tidy around her.
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I am impressed with how far back you are stripping the place, amazed at the speed you are working at, and wondering where you are sleeping while all this is going on - in a tent?
We are in a rent. Sold in Stornoway and moved to Dumfries in May and have a 6 month lease (until 10th November) with the option to extend (have to give 2 months notice). Aiming for a 4 month turn around (move in early next year?) - I gut the place then the builders come in.
I am retired so have no other commitments and can spend all my day working on the cottage - generally starting at 10 am and finishing at 7 pm - that's 9 hrs a day.
Mrs G has also had the week off work and cleared a lot of wall (clearing laths and plaster) leaving me to tidy around her.
1000 start! - retirement doesn't give you the right to have lie-in you know ;D
Fantastic progress.
Rob
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1000 start! - retirement doesn't give you the right to have lie-in you know ;D
Elfin safe tea, innit. Use of tools - particularly hammers and sharp objects - early in the morning always makes me feel like I'm in the opening scene of an episode of Casualty.
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1000 start! - retirement doesn't give you the right to have lie-in you know ;D
Elfin safe tea, innit. Use of tools - particularly hammers and sharp objects - early in the morning always makes me feel like I'm in the opening scene of an episode of Casualty.
I'm gonig to use that one next time someone thinks it's a good idea to have a grumble about me working 10-18 as is allowed by our flexi system...
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1000 start! - retirement doesn't give you the right to have lie-in you know ;D
Fantastic progress.
Rob
;D
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So bathroom's ready (unless the builder decides the brick wall on the left is coming down to be replaced with a stud wall)
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The stretch of corridor to the lounge is done
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and the second bedroom is ready (but I might need to remove a few floor boards where a radiator has leaked)
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The main bedroom is also close (just a few more floor boards to pull up.
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The lounge corridor:
I've already shown the work done on the adjoining bathroom wall (that was at some time an outside wall) and the ceiling that was pulled down.
I also removed a stud wall at the corridor end. Behind the stud a plastered wall had been covered in polythene sheeting. Removal of the plaster revealed original stone wall (see above) and an alcove that had been boarded up and dissected by the stud wall to the second bedroom - the other 'part' being in the bedroom.
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Second bedroom:
Once part of a large dining room/lounge it was partitioned to make a study and (for some bizarre reason) another external door added. This is going to be divided into 2 rooms - a 2nd (spare) bedroom and a sewing/craft work room for Deanne. The partition is going where the ceiling changes height. going to replace the outside door with a window.
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The outside wall was lath and plaster - now all cleared
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The right hand wall (from the bedroom door) was plasterboard over a polythene covered plaster wall. Chipping back the plaster revelaed an old stone wall - all the plaster has now been removed.
Clearing around the (boarded up) alcove revealed a bricked up door with an oak lintel. We decided to remove the partition wall (between the alcove and the door and re-position it so that the alcove becomes a feature in Deanne's work room.
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looking good, loads of reapid progress made. Any of the stone walls being kept as feechurs?
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looking good, loads of reapid progress made. Any of the stone walls being kept as feechurs?
That's a manky idea...
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/feech_interj_n1_v
Following with interest, also convincing me the slight thought of buying a dooer up is a bad idea, I'd get as far as half painting the lobby press.
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Has worked stalled? - I'm missing the picture updates
Rob
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looking good, loads of reapid progress made. Any of the stone walls being kept as feechurs?
Some - any outside walls in rooms will be covered with stud walls and insulated but some of the fire places and inside walls will be left as features.
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Has worked stalled? - I'm missing the picture updates
Rob
Got a lot to update - went on holiday in October and got busy in other ways so haven't spent much time 'on the web'.
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Has worked stalled? - I'm missing the picture updates
Rob
Got a lot to update - went on holiday in October and got busy in other ways so haven't spent much time 'on the web'.
Ah, I was concerned that you may have hit "the curse of Kevin McCloud/Grand Designs" - looking forward to the next round of pix.
Rob
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Ah, I was concerned that you may have hit "the curse of Kevin McCloud/Grand Designs"
Over-wintering in a caravan on a muddy building site while heavily pregnant?
(Other curses available here (https://carina.org.uk/granddesigns.shtml).)
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Ah, I was concerned that you may have hit "the curse of Kevin McCloud/Grand Designs"
Over-wintering in a caravan on a muddy building site while heavily pregnant?
(Other curses available here (https://carina.org.uk/granddesigns.shtml).)
That game seems broken. No mention of what to do if Kevin McCloud says "light" and "space" in the same sentence.
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That game seems broken. No mention of what to do if Kevin McCloud says "light" and "space" in the same sentence.
It's simply unsafe to drink that much.
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Ah, I was concerned that you may have hit "the curse of Kevin McCloud/Grand Designs"
Over-wintering in a caravan on a muddy building site while heavily pregnant?
(Other curses available here (https://carina.org.uk/granddesigns.shtml).)
Doesn't mention partner buggering off because they are fed up with all the money and attention going on the bloody house.
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Ah, I was concerned that you may have hit "the curse of Kevin McCloud/Grand Designs"
Over-wintering in a caravan on a muddy building site while heavily pregnant?
(Other curses available here (https://carina.org.uk/granddesigns.shtml).)
Doesn't mention partner buggering off because they are fed up with all the money and attention going on the bloody house.
Bonus points if partner was project managing
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My studio build ground to a halt a few weeks ago when I ran out of supplies. How is your place coming along (since the October photos), Ian?
Was just about to have the roof replaced but all stopped because of the lockdown. Stripped everything out and had the damp-proof course and wood treated.
Keep meaning to post more pictures but procrastination winning.
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Next door's gone up for sale - this is from their sale details.
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Any more photies of progress? Have you moved in yet?
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Inside looks like this now :)
Lounge
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Bedroom 2
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2nd sitting room/office/spare bedroom
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Main bedroom
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Dining Room
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Kitchen
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Most rooms ready for plastering. I've fallen out with the heating contractor and have started arbitration process to get so9me money back :(
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Gosh, it's starting to look like a home! Was you heating not going to be pellet stove or ASHP or something equally sustainable? Hope you get your heating sorted out satisfactorily, what happened there?
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Gosh, it's starting to look like a home! Was you heating not going to be pellet stove or ASHP or something equally sustainable? Hope you get your heating sorted out satisfactorily, what happened there?
Air source with thermal solar panels. The contractor lost his (microgeneration certification scheme) registration so we are ineligible for the Energy Scotland loan and renewable heat incentive payments on completion. He also took a 25% payment off us '3 weeks prior to installation of the heat pump' in June and he hasn't replied to e-mails or been back to the cottage since - despite a number of attempts to contact him.
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Gosh, it's starting to look like a home! Was you heating not going to be pellet stove or ASHP or something equally sustainable? Hope you get your heating sorted out satisfactorily, what happened there?
Air source with thermal solar panels. The contractor lost his (microgeneration certification scheme) registration so we are ineligible for the Energy Scotland loan and renewable heat incentive payments on completion. He also took a 25% payment off us '3 weeks prior to installation of the heat pump' in June and he hasn't replied to e-mails or been back to the cottage since - despite a number of attempts to contact him.
Oh that is crap. Hope it gets resolved without much stress.
Did you get your timber bought before the insane price increases? I paid £60 for a sheet of crappy ply a few weeks back. Getting ridiculous.
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Gosh, it's starting to look like a home! Was you heating not going to be pellet stove or ASHP or something equally sustainable? Hope you get your heating sorted out satisfactorily, what happened there?
Air source with thermal solar panels. The contractor lost his (microgeneration certification scheme) registration so we are ineligible for the Energy Scotland loan and renewable heat incentive payments on completion. He also took a 25% payment off us '3 weeks prior to installation of the heat pump' in June and he hasn't replied to e-mails or been back to the cottage since - despite a number of attempts to contact him.
Oh that is crap. Hope it gets resolved without much stress.
Did you get your timber bought before the insane price increases? I paid £60 for a sheet of crappy ply a few weeks back. Getting ridiculous.
Unfortunately, no. Supply time has also impacted. Going well over budget :(
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Oh that's rotten. Can you take him to small claims court or something? To me losing your MCS is a bit of a breach of contract. Wonder what happened for them to lose that. Hope you can get a new contractor who can tick all the HES and RHI boxes.
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Oh that's rotten. Can you take him to small claims court or something? To me losing your MCS is a bit of a breach of contract. Wonder what happened for them to lose that. Hope you can get a new contractor who can tick all the HES and RHI boxes.
Trying arbitration as first step.
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Looks fab Windy. It will be worth it in the end.
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Good stuff!!
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I can report it is fab!
And real coffee ;D
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I can report it is fab!
And real coffee ;D
It is indeed. Painter's started decorating, kitchen nearly finished, stoves almost complete. Electrics, and plumbing still to be finished. Heating system, bathroom, utility and wc to be fitted/finished. :)
Dining Room
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Kitchen
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Utility
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Man cave
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Office/Sitting Room/Spare Bedroom
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Lounge
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Looking good.
Meanwhile, I'm just about to move (brother and hire van booked for the next week) to Castle Douglas. Nice part of the world.
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Looking good.
Meanwhile, I'm just about to move (brother and hire van booked for the next week) to Castle Douglas. Nice part of the world.
You've decided to make the move then, cool. I love it here. I'm currently testing out the local health service too (see the "Bad News" thread). May be catch up when your settled and my condition improves.
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We've finally found someone who will complete the heat pump installation and finish the work that the b****** who ripped us off started. Plan to start6 W/C 24/10 so theoretically we could be thinking of completion and moving in by the end of November :)
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Oh exciting! Hope that goes to plan this time!
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When's the partay? 👍
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Also, that has been a looong time to get your heating issue sorted, what a nightmare...
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Photo update
Kitchen
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Dining Room
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Lounge
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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The dark blue walls are nice, I'm not brave enough to try that deep a colour.
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Fabulous :thumbsup:
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Love the lighting. Where did you source that?
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Super work!
Can I ask what lighting that is on the kitchen beams, please?
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Love the lighting. Where did you source that?
Super work!
Can I ask what lighting that is on the kitchen beams, please?
The lighting is basic LED strip light (such as these (https://www.simplelighting.co.uk/natural-white-led-tape-120-leds-per-metre-4000k-14657/?msclkid=f4e366cc2a641dc6520f05f8415aa0cf&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Incremental%202021&utm_term=4578641343301937&utm_content=Incremental%20Ad%202021#fo_c=1144&fo_k=f43bbe763c567390204f4bb54406ce47&fo_s=binggb)) that you buy in 'x metre' lengths. If you want mor info I would need to get the details from the electrician.
On the kitchen ceiling the joiner cut a rectangular channel into 2" oak strips then attached the strips to the ceiling and the strip LED was fitted into the channel.
In the dining room there is a cornice with LED strips above.
There are also LED strips within the stone wall frames (shining downwards and lighting up the wall) and above the roof beams (shining upwards) - but I forgot to turn on the lights.
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So are the kitchen beams not structural? I just assumed they were, but a on a closer look they don't look big enough.
You have got some very interesting ideas. We have very low beamed ceilings and organising suitable lighting has always been a problem. Will go away and think...
Thanks.
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So are the kitchen beams not structural? I just assumed they were, but a on a closer look they don't look big enough.
You have got some very interesting ideas. We have very low beamed ceilings and organising suitable lighting has always been a problem. Will go away and think...
Thanks.
The beams in the dining room are original supporting beams. I'll take a photo with lights on and post photos next time I visit.
The other bits of wood around fireplace, doors and fake beams etc. were taken from the roof above the bedroom (new support structure added) and the wood treated and used as features.
Strips were added as feature post plaster-boarding. This is the kitchen roof before insulation and plasterboard
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The heating system - after being "ripped off" to the tune of £6.5K by Home Renewables (who took pre-payments and ran to Thailand) we finally found someone willing to finish the job. Unfortunately, Mitsubishi can't (currently) supply a combined solar panel/heat pump tank. But, a tank and heat pump has been installed this week (and we need to look at solar panel connection at a later date) and the cottage is now got a heating system for the first time in 3 years :)
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That’s looking really nice, and good news about having heating.
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We have a working hob - and the bathroom sink is nearly complete. Will hopefully be in by next weekend :)
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Whoop!
That sink looks awfy funcy!
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Whoop!
That sink looks awfy funcy!
It does :)
Deanne chose the sink
Our joiner has been working on the stand for a long time. He wanted to do something 'special' to finish the job off.
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Aw.
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Our joiner has been working on the stand for a long time. He wanted to do something 'special' to finish the job off.
Did he make the legs too short? It looks like they don't reach down to the floor.
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I'm guessing they have feet that can be height adjusted to allow the sink to be levelled for draining?
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Our joiner has been working on the stand for a long time. He wanted to do something 'special' to finish the job off.
He succeeded! Very nice end result!
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Our joiner has been working on the stand for a long time. He wanted to do something 'special' to finish the job off.
Did he make the legs too short? It looks like they don't reach down to the floor.
As Clare says - adjustable feet
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Our joiner has been working on the stand for a long time. He wanted to do something 'special' to finish the job off.
Did he make the legs too short? It looks like they don't reach down to the floor.
As Clare says - adjustable feet
. . . small suggestion on the legs - surrounding the bottom of the legs with a "thin skirting board" retro fitted so that they touch the ground around the legs would finish it off and hide the adjustable feet (giving the appearance of a thickened end to the legas, like some dining tables)
I've never seen a wash-basin that sort of pattern . . . the jury is out in my mind but I love the concealed black taps :thumbsup:
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Looks great!
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Our joiner has been working on the stand for a long time. He wanted to do something 'special' to finish the job off.
Did he make the legs too short? It looks like they don't reach down to the floor.
As Clare says - adjustable feet
And, space invaders to help keep it up, as you lose if it ever touches the floor ;)
Very nice, unique piece.
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These. (https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1337799361/christmas-table-foot-socks-chair-leg?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=table+feet+covers&ref=sc_gallery-1-2&col=1&plkey=1dd11f3939d89b3c246502f479efee6ec1339b68%3A1337799361)
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Our joiner has been working on the stand for a long time. He wanted to do something 'special' to finish the job off.
Did he make the legs too short? It looks like they don't reach down to the floor.
As Clare says - adjustable feet
. . . small suggestion on the legs - surrounding the bottom of the legs with a "thin skirting board" retro fitted so that they touch the ground around the legs would finish it off and hide the adjustable feet (giving the appearance of a thickened end to the legas, like some dining tables)
I've never seen a wash-basin that sort of pattern . . . the jury is out in my mind but I love the concealed black taps :thumbsup:
Wife chose the basin 🙄
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Nice one.
If you now need another project...
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Sorting the man cave out ;)
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Nice one.
If you now need another project...
:hand:
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Nice maps!
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Nice maps!
That was the first thing I noticed :)
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Nice maps!
Cyclists/outdoor types for you - maps have been number 1 comment in all posts of this photo ;D
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..Probably a quarter of the collection I used to have. I gave away a box full of maps when I moved south. Earlier England OS 1:50,000, some 1:25000 for places I may never visit again and a load of Bartholomew's 1:100000 and 1/2 inch :'(
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Nice maps!
Cyclists/outdoor types for you - maps have been number 1 comment in all posts of this photo ;D
:thumbsup:
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Nice maps!
That was the first thing I noticed :)
Me too also.
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Got the guitars hanging on the wall today :)
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I like the hooks!
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I like the hooks!
Hercules (https://www.johndouglasmusic.com/store/product/3_guitars/86_stands-and-wall-hangers/3920_hercules-gsp38wbw-auto-grip-guitar-hanger-dark-wood-base-short-arm/)
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The "man-cave"
Full glass door changed for stable door. I'm facing that wall, the room finishes about mid point of that old doorway and the electrics :)
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Cheers!
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I see the computer is a time machine and shows the room mid-works!
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I see the computer is a time machine and shows the room mid-works!
Very meta!
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Also.
Nice headphones. I’ll bet you know where your 3.5mm extension lead is.
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Also.
Nice headphones. I’ll bet you know where your 3.5mm extension lead is.
;D
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Another photo of the man-cave because it's xmas, finally in the cottage and I'm so happy :)
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Very jealous, I have no wall space for my guitar. Looks great
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My guitar is sulking in the loft . It won't come down till I stop torturing it .
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What a great mug.
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I better get that trade marked , Who wants a festive YACF mug .
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Technical Audit done today.
Been worrying about it all last week - the guy comes into the house first thing he says is that his brother has the farm up the road and talks to me in the 'local'. Started looking around asked if there had been any structural alterations, took a few photos, looked through my record of quotes and invoices and basically said "oh, xxx did the roof - went to school with him that will be fine, yyy did the stoves - always does good work, zzz fitted the heating system - no problems there then. Can you forward me the EIC and permitted development letter, thanks for your time"
A tick box for the mortgage company so that I can change from a renovation mortgage to a normal mortgage - £500 + vat for 30 mins work :o
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:thumbsup:
apart from the cost!