Hi,
I have been meaning to post on this forum for a few months now but so busy with work and renovation had not had time, so I'll at least start it and post updates.
It started in sept 2011 when we bought a solid brick 3 bed detached house which looked like it hadn't been decorated for 25 years. We knew the house needed modernising and planned to move in after 6 weeks when we had redecorated a room or two. 7 months later and we still in a rented flat.
It's not really that we didn't know how much work the house needed rather that we didn't know where to start so just started removing things, wall paper, carpets, built in wardrobes etc. The most unexpected discovery was the solid ground floor which was breaking up in one room and had obviously been repaired at some point; the other floors were not that level either. After the initial panic I decided there was nothing else to do but dig the ground floor up and put in underfloor heating. That really killed and time scales we had in mind and completely changed our plans.
We are just about at the point where we are starting to put things back together so I may be asking a few questions. Please bear with me as I would say I was a competent DIYer, inexperienced in some of the more specialist areas, but learning fast.
This weekend was spent taking out the floor standing boiler, digging up the old boiler room floor, finishing off insulating the dormer window roof and starting the plasterboard.
Amongst other jobs still to do are re wiring, although we have someone to do that, fitting new central heating system, new stud walling, plaster boarding walls and ceilings, fitting new internal doors and my biggest head ache, plumbing for waste for a rearranged bathroom and new ensuite.
Jobs we have done are, remove 40' lelandi trees, fit new mains water, start waste plumbing for new kitchen, knocked down numerous internal walls, removed chimney from roof to ground floor, fitted catnic lintel, removed all old central heating system, removed old kitchen, replaced ground floor with insulation, Dpm, ufh, screed, put in new windows.
It's taking a while because we are old able to do it at weekends so I think we are officially crazy. Grand designs without the grand.
Wish us luck as we feel likewe need it.
I have been meaning to post on this forum for a few months now but so busy with work and renovation had not had time, so I'll at least start it and post updates.
It started in sept 2011 when we bought a solid brick 3 bed detached house which looked like it hadn't been decorated for 25 years. We knew the house needed modernising and planned to move in after 6 weeks when we had redecorated a room or two. 7 months later and we still in a rented flat.
It's not really that we didn't know how much work the house needed rather that we didn't know where to start so just started removing things, wall paper, carpets, built in wardrobes etc. The most unexpected discovery was the solid ground floor which was breaking up in one room and had obviously been repaired at some point; the other floors were not that level either. After the initial panic I decided there was nothing else to do but dig the ground floor up and put in underfloor heating. That really killed and time scales we had in mind and completely changed our plans.
We are just about at the point where we are starting to put things back together so I may be asking a few questions. Please bear with me as I would say I was a competent DIYer, inexperienced in some of the more specialist areas, but learning fast.
This weekend was spent taking out the floor standing boiler, digging up the old boiler room floor, finishing off insulating the dormer window roof and starting the plasterboard.
Amongst other jobs still to do are re wiring, although we have someone to do that, fitting new central heating system, new stud walling, plaster boarding walls and ceilings, fitting new internal doors and my biggest head ache, plumbing for waste for a rearranged bathroom and new ensuite.
Jobs we have done are, remove 40' lelandi trees, fit new mains water, start waste plumbing for new kitchen, knocked down numerous internal walls, removed chimney from roof to ground floor, fitted catnic lintel, removed all old central heating system, removed old kitchen, replaced ground floor with insulation, Dpm, ufh, screed, put in new windows.
It's taking a while because we are old able to do it at weekends so I think we are officially crazy. Grand designs without the grand.
Wish us luck as we feel likewe need it.