As you can see all the plastering has been completed and we are now painting, well when I say we I mean Christine!!
So what have we been doing, well, we have had the electrics completed and now turned on. All I need to do is change the lights in the bathrooms to Zone 2's and also put grommets in all the old sockets and hopefully that will be it and it can be signed off. Job done!!
Next I have began to plumb the waste in for the new kitchen, is has to run off a 50mm waste pipe as the distance from the drain to the waste is so long so I did this and it took most of a morning just show that what you think will be easy takes ages!! but Job done!!
I have fully fitted the utility room so now for the first time since we moved in two years ago waste water from the boiler runs into a waste pipe as opposed to a bucket as it used to. The Utility room has in it the units from our old kitchen plus old sink/washing machine and fridge freezer so pleased with the outcome there as I only had to buy a worktop at £30. Job done!!
I am also now just about finished fitting the smoke alarms something I did not realise that I had to do and they all have to be interconnecting and run direct from the fuse box so this we again another job that I was not expecting and again took up half a day but job done!!
I have been spending the last few evening making up the kitchen as it came flat packed so we now have a large number of kitchen carcasses in the living room poor Christine, gets a room back and then I take it over again!!!.
Off work on Thursday and Sunday so hopefully some more progress to report then.
Thanks
Garry
Tuesday 23 September 2008
Monday 8 September 2008
Some Pictures
The attic after Christine painted it
Another picture of the attic
Looking into the utilityroom and down stair WC
Our new stair case, it has all been plastered
The window in the room above the garage, the room is now completely painted
En Suite Rad now plumbed in and ready to go
Shower plumbed in and ready for tiling
New computer room now painted
Thursday 4 September 2008
Sorry for the lack of info
We had the builders in for the two weeks i was on holiday and the Wed - Fri after the bank holiday, so where are we up to.
Well all the plastering has now been finished and Christine has been painting away. We have painted the attic room and new study. Also the en suite bathroom above the garage has been plumbed in and had had its first coat of paint.
We have bought all the tiles for the bathrooms and I am hopefully going to get this started tomorrow. We are waiting for Screwfix to deliver a radiator for the attic room tomorrow so that I can finish the plumbing. The good news is that we now have a working boiler, hot water and gas. It sound crazy but it was fantastic having a shower in our own bathroom again and not having to go to Christine's mum and dad every night to have a shower.
So we are getting nearer and nearer completion (I hope) Will try and post some pictures as that will show you how far we have come.
That's all for now.
Thanks
Garry & Christine
Well all the plastering has now been finished and Christine has been painting away. We have painted the attic room and new study. Also the en suite bathroom above the garage has been plumbed in and had had its first coat of paint.
We have bought all the tiles for the bathrooms and I am hopefully going to get this started tomorrow. We are waiting for Screwfix to deliver a radiator for the attic room tomorrow so that I can finish the plumbing. The good news is that we now have a working boiler, hot water and gas. It sound crazy but it was fantastic having a shower in our own bathroom again and not having to go to Christine's mum and dad every night to have a shower.
So we are getting nearer and nearer completion (I hope) Will try and post some pictures as that will show you how far we have come.
That's all for now.
Thanks
Garry & Christine
Monday 1 September 2008
Wednesday 13 August 2008
The work keeps on going
Trying to figure out if we are making progress or not!!
The builders have finished their contract of works, i.e. the full construction, however I have kept them on for a week to really push forward whilst I am on holiday.
We are making headway, slowly.
In the last few days we have finished the living room!!
Built all the partitions in the attic so the staircase is now blocked in, also so is the en suite,
I have completed the first fix electrics in the attic and awaiting them to be check off by the council,
Plastered the en suite in the new bedroom above the garage,
Plaster boarded the ceiling in the bedroom above the garage, (Now ready to be plastered)
Completed the insulation in the attic, what a job, took one guy 3 days, (Being signed off be building control tomorrow, fingers crossed)
Removed the boiler so it can be repositioned in the Utility room,
Began to knock down the wall from the house to the Utility room,
Completed the joists in the Utility room
and finally,
Plaster boarded the new dining room walls, only the ceiling to go next.
Garry & Christine
The builders have finished their contract of works, i.e. the full construction, however I have kept them on for a week to really push forward whilst I am on holiday.
We are making headway, slowly.
In the last few days we have finished the living room!!
Built all the partitions in the attic so the staircase is now blocked in, also so is the en suite,
I have completed the first fix electrics in the attic and awaiting them to be check off by the council,
Plastered the en suite in the new bedroom above the garage,
Plaster boarded the ceiling in the bedroom above the garage, (Now ready to be plastered)
Completed the insulation in the attic, what a job, took one guy 3 days, (Being signed off be building control tomorrow, fingers crossed)
Removed the boiler so it can be repositioned in the Utility room,
Began to knock down the wall from the house to the Utility room,
Completed the joists in the Utility room
and finally,
Plaster boarded the new dining room walls, only the ceiling to go next.
Garry & Christine
Thursday 7 August 2008
What have I been up too
Hi everyone,
Sorry about the pictures but I am having real problem re sizing them for the blog when I do re size the colour goes really funny. The program I was using was on my main PC but the mother board has gone and died, could be the dust, and that is my bad excuse. I have put my hard drive into Christine's dad's PC last night as their Windows XP has broken down, so when I have time I will up load the pictures there.
The builders have pretty much finished on site. They have fitted the French doors and en suite window in the attic, fitted the stair case done all the tiling so we are now officially 'water tight'. however the list of jobs I have to do is huge :-
Build partition for study next to Attic room,
Build partition for en suite in attic room
Build partition for stair case into attic room
Insulate attic room plus study,
Plasterboard attic room and study,
Install en suite bathroom
Install en suite in new bedroom above garage
Knock wall into utility room
Install new back door from utility room
Install 8 fire doors and 5 standard door
Install Utility room
Insulate above garage
Insulate all floors
Plasterboard garage ceiling
Fit kitchen
Plasterboard new dining room
Then paint everything etc!!
So tonnes still to do, but we plod on and I am sure we will get there.
The builders although they have finished I am planning to keep them on for a week or so to finish a lot of this work.
But Christine and I have been busy, we have partitioned the Utility room from the garage,
started plumbing in the utility room and en suites, fitted the down stair toilet, plasterboard all the bedroom above the garage, partitioned in the bathroom installed the windows in the bedroom.
We have also finished all the plastering in the living room and Christine is off work next week so she will get this painted and we can move back in there.
Pictures, I will try and publish tomorrow.
Blog soon
Garry & Christine
xx
Sorry about the pictures but I am having real problem re sizing them for the blog when I do re size the colour goes really funny. The program I was using was on my main PC but the mother board has gone and died, could be the dust, and that is my bad excuse. I have put my hard drive into Christine's dad's PC last night as their Windows XP has broken down, so when I have time I will up load the pictures there.
The builders have pretty much finished on site. They have fitted the French doors and en suite window in the attic, fitted the stair case done all the tiling so we are now officially 'water tight'. however the list of jobs I have to do is huge :-
Build partition for study next to Attic room,
Build partition for en suite in attic room
Build partition for stair case into attic room
Insulate attic room plus study,
Plasterboard attic room and study,
Install en suite bathroom
Install en suite in new bedroom above garage
Knock wall into utility room
Install new back door from utility room
Install 8 fire doors and 5 standard door
Install Utility room
Insulate above garage
Insulate all floors
Plasterboard garage ceiling
Fit kitchen
Plasterboard new dining room
Then paint everything etc!!
So tonnes still to do, but we plod on and I am sure we will get there.
The builders although they have finished I am planning to keep them on for a week or so to finish a lot of this work.
But Christine and I have been busy, we have partitioned the Utility room from the garage,
started plumbing in the utility room and en suites, fitted the down stair toilet, plasterboard all the bedroom above the garage, partitioned in the bathroom installed the windows in the bedroom.
We have also finished all the plastering in the living room and Christine is off work next week so she will get this painted and we can move back in there.
Pictures, I will try and publish tomorrow.
Blog soon
Garry & Christine
xx
The bedroom above the garage soon to have an en suite
Same room but looking towards the front
Attic room
Another picture of the attic
Roof detail
Roof detail
Roof detail
Dormer before windows fitted
Rear extension roof
Rear extension roof
Drains from the new extension
More drains and first fix plumbing
New man holes filled in
Picture of en suite from bedroom
Inside the en suite
New stair case
Wall spliting garage and utility room
Pictures of the house
Pictures of the house
Last picture of the house
Thursday 24 July 2008
What have I been up too.
Hi all,
I have not been updating and regularly but here is a quick up date.
The builders have been busy and have knocked through from the old computer room into the new room above the garage. They have also knocked the wall down between the computer room and the hall. This has really opened up the hall and lets the light back in as it floods in through the window in the computer room (When we bricked up the window from the gable wall the hall was in darkness when all the doors were closed). So the room above the garage is now pretty much ready to have the partition wall built for the en suite. Once this is done it can then be plaster boarded and skimmed. The shower and suite fitted and we will have a finished room.
The main focus for the builders has however been getting the roof tilled and finished off. They are almost there with the tiling, just a few rows to go until they are finished and a bit of work on the flat roof. I believe the stair case will be going in next week, then Christine can have a look. However, saying that is a bit unfair as she did once climb up too sets of ladders to have a look, very brave from her, very funny on the way down LOL.
The builders have also started doing the drainage works for the new en suites and the main down pipe has been fitted. This has been fitted in the house so that we will not have an ugly black pipe all over the back of the house. I will box it in so that it can not be seen, I will also use this space to run the mains hot & cold plus central heating pipes into the new spaces.
I have been busy trying to finish the living room and I hate to say it but it has been taking a lot longer than I thought. So far, I have fixed the RSJ into place, re routed the light switch, plaster boarded the walls and fitted sound insulation between the wall so that we do not hear water running away every time the sink is drained as this will be backed up against the new location of the sofa. I have also begun to plaster the living room and hope to have this finished by Sunday so we can start painting and get back into the room!!.
We have also ordered the kitchen it is the Montreal range from Wickes. I am really pleased with the price as we managed to get £1k off the sale price as the price matched a company that the builder got a quote from. So, all I need to order now is the island hood, hob and sink. I have found a web site that will do the hood and hob for £940 whereas Wicker were looking for £1350 for the both of them. I have still to find a supplier of the sink we are looking for, but Wickes price was £395 and I was not paying that for a sink.
We have also decided to get the same tiles in the kitchen that we have in the bathroom, for anyone who has been in the house these are a bit of an extravagance, however we have managed to get a few deals that has paid for this.
On the building side of this I have decided to get the builders to hang around for a week to hopefully plaster the new attic room and en suite plus at a push the new downstairs living area, just to speed things up a bit and get us finished a bit quicker.
Will try and follow up with pictures over the weekend.
Garry
I have not been updating and regularly but here is a quick up date.
The builders have been busy and have knocked through from the old computer room into the new room above the garage. They have also knocked the wall down between the computer room and the hall. This has really opened up the hall and lets the light back in as it floods in through the window in the computer room (When we bricked up the window from the gable wall the hall was in darkness when all the doors were closed). So the room above the garage is now pretty much ready to have the partition wall built for the en suite. Once this is done it can then be plaster boarded and skimmed. The shower and suite fitted and we will have a finished room.
The main focus for the builders has however been getting the roof tilled and finished off. They are almost there with the tiling, just a few rows to go until they are finished and a bit of work on the flat roof. I believe the stair case will be going in next week, then Christine can have a look. However, saying that is a bit unfair as she did once climb up too sets of ladders to have a look, very brave from her, very funny on the way down LOL.
The builders have also started doing the drainage works for the new en suites and the main down pipe has been fitted. This has been fitted in the house so that we will not have an ugly black pipe all over the back of the house. I will box it in so that it can not be seen, I will also use this space to run the mains hot & cold plus central heating pipes into the new spaces.
I have been busy trying to finish the living room and I hate to say it but it has been taking a lot longer than I thought. So far, I have fixed the RSJ into place, re routed the light switch, plaster boarded the walls and fitted sound insulation between the wall so that we do not hear water running away every time the sink is drained as this will be backed up against the new location of the sofa. I have also begun to plaster the living room and hope to have this finished by Sunday so we can start painting and get back into the room!!.
We have also ordered the kitchen it is the Montreal range from Wickes. I am really pleased with the price as we managed to get £1k off the sale price as the price matched a company that the builder got a quote from. So, all I need to order now is the island hood, hob and sink. I have found a web site that will do the hood and hob for £940 whereas Wicker were looking for £1350 for the both of them. I have still to find a supplier of the sink we are looking for, but Wickes price was £395 and I was not paying that for a sink.
We have also decided to get the same tiles in the kitchen that we have in the bathroom, for anyone who has been in the house these are a bit of an extravagance, however we have managed to get a few deals that has paid for this.
On the building side of this I have decided to get the builders to hang around for a week to hopefully plaster the new attic room and en suite plus at a push the new downstairs living area, just to speed things up a bit and get us finished a bit quicker.
Will try and follow up with pictures over the weekend.
Garry
Monday 7 July 2008
RSJ's are heavy!!http://www.blogger.com/moderate-comment.g?blogID=906892184774567505
Hi all,
Had Sunday and Monday off work, I have been concentrating on getting the living room back to normal so we can move the contents of the computer room in there as the builders have indicated that they will be wanting the computer room soon as they have to use this space for the stair up to the attic.
So I poured a 750*750*300 concrete foundation at the bottom of the Pier that will hold the RSJ on Thursday last week and built the Pier on Sunday. The foundation does have a set of Silva's paw prints on it, he can not resist having a look at anything new!!
So today I started to dot and dab the plasterboard onto the walls of the rear extension and plaster board the roof, then the heaven opened and I mean opened as the rear extension has still to be tilled as the builders have their scaffold on it rain began to pour into the room so all I could do was put down some buckets and give up on the idea of plaster boarding the walls. Luckily the area I did was well away from any leaks so it is OK.
We also had building control in today to look at the pier and foundation he said they were OK so I was well chuffed as it is the first time I have done that before. We also had an electrician in from Building Control to look at the first fix electrics as the friend who is doing it is not Part P, he was also happy with the work so again something less to worry about.
So with the rain pouring down and the builders away early due to this I began putting the RSJ up. I had planned to have a group of friends help on Sunday but as the pier was not finished we had to call then off. So I put it up myself by slowly jacking up each end and laying a breeze block under it this took ages but in the end it means the RSJ is in place and as I am on a late tomorrow it means that I can pour the pad stones before work and let them set and have the RSJ ready for inspection by the end of the week. Another job completed.
Also picked up the windows for the bedroom and en suite above the garage so will look to fit them soon.
RSJ almost there
Picture inside the attic looking at the sloping roof above garage
Looking into the dormer, this will be our bedroom area with en suite
Another picture of the dormer.
Garry
Had Sunday and Monday off work, I have been concentrating on getting the living room back to normal so we can move the contents of the computer room in there as the builders have indicated that they will be wanting the computer room soon as they have to use this space for the stair up to the attic.
So I poured a 750*750*300 concrete foundation at the bottom of the Pier that will hold the RSJ on Thursday last week and built the Pier on Sunday. The foundation does have a set of Silva's paw prints on it, he can not resist having a look at anything new!!
So today I started to dot and dab the plasterboard onto the walls of the rear extension and plaster board the roof, then the heaven opened and I mean opened as the rear extension has still to be tilled as the builders have their scaffold on it rain began to pour into the room so all I could do was put down some buckets and give up on the idea of plaster boarding the walls. Luckily the area I did was well away from any leaks so it is OK.
We also had building control in today to look at the pier and foundation he said they were OK so I was well chuffed as it is the first time I have done that before. We also had an electrician in from Building Control to look at the first fix electrics as the friend who is doing it is not Part P, he was also happy with the work so again something less to worry about.
So with the rain pouring down and the builders away early due to this I began putting the RSJ up. I had planned to have a group of friends help on Sunday but as the pier was not finished we had to call then off. So I put it up myself by slowly jacking up each end and laying a breeze block under it this took ages but in the end it means the RSJ is in place and as I am on a late tomorrow it means that I can pour the pad stones before work and let them set and have the RSJ ready for inspection by the end of the week. Another job completed.
Also picked up the windows for the bedroom and en suite above the garage so will look to fit them soon.
RSJ almost there
Picture inside the attic looking at the sloping roof above garage
Looking into the dormer, this will be our bedroom area with en suite
Another picture of the dormer.
Garry
Thursday 3 July 2008
Sorry about the delay
Hi everyone,
It has now been about 3 weeks since I updated this blog, so sorry but it would seem that every evening we spend time trying to find stuff for the house (@ the cheapest possible price) and that is my poor reason for not updating.
But here goes,
We have a roof on top of the rear extension (Builders did this) and insulation is now up (I did this.
I have also fitted two french doors to the rear extension.
The builders have now knocked through from the kitchen to the new rear extension, they did this the same day as I fitted the doors so the house is now secure. I have in the last couple of days knocked through from the living room to the corridor you should be able to see in earlier pictures, this makes the room alot bigger in size as we always thought the front room was quite small Karen's Stephen will appreciate this however what is worse doing this or buying a new house??
The builders have finished all the brick work and are now working on the attic conversion and I believe that they will be starting the dormer tomorrow. So all the work that is being done by the builders is pretty much up in the attic.
So the plan now is to try and get the front room finished so that we can move all our stuff in there and the old computer room will need to be emptied soon for the door into the room above the garage and also the staircase.
Will leave now with some pictures.
Garry
New RSJ and insulation
Acrows holding up the ceiling in the kitchen
Acrows in the old dining room holding up the ceiling on this side
It has now been about 3 weeks since I updated this blog, so sorry but it would seem that every evening we spend time trying to find stuff for the house (@ the cheapest possible price) and that is my poor reason for not updating.
But here goes,
We have a roof on top of the rear extension (Builders did this) and insulation is now up (I did this.
I have also fitted two french doors to the rear extension.
The builders have now knocked through from the kitchen to the new rear extension, they did this the same day as I fitted the doors so the house is now secure. I have in the last couple of days knocked through from the living room to the corridor you should be able to see in earlier pictures, this makes the room alot bigger in size as we always thought the front room was quite small Karen's Stephen will appreciate this however what is worse doing this or buying a new house??
The builders have finished all the brick work and are now working on the attic conversion and I believe that they will be starting the dormer tomorrow. So all the work that is being done by the builders is pretty much up in the attic.
So the plan now is to try and get the front room finished so that we can move all our stuff in there and the old computer room will need to be emptied soon for the door into the room above the garage and also the staircase.
Will leave now with some pictures.
Garry
Looking out into the new rear extension
New RSJ and insulation
Another picture looking into the rear extension
And again
Where the new kitchen will go
Where the boiler is, this will become the doorway into the utilityroom, you can just see the doorway into the down stair WC to the right
Acrows holding up the ceiling in the kitchen
Wall begining to come down
Acrows in the old dining room holding up the ceiling on this side
Wall has come down
Another picture from a different angle
And another angle
Wall down and a little bit of a clear up
Our new french doors
Roof on extension
New room above garage, this will have an en suite
Bricked up window that used to give light to the stair case
Roof covered up
Ceiling of bedroom above garage
Attic with new floor joists 9" by 3" and they sit on a RSJ on both sides of the room
New stud wall being built this sits on an RSJ that spans across the room, A steel post will be attached to this in the centre an another RSJ will sit on this at head height to take the load from the dormar
Picture showing the RSJ's joining, these will be welded together
New supports for the attic all sitting on the new RSJ
More detailed picture of the supports
Picture showing the 9" by 3"s
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