Fortunately the Segal method of timber framed construction avoids the need for plastering. Plasterboard is painted before being clamped into place by battens to form the walls.
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Nice work, did you do the stone worktops?Same here. As I said in an earlier post, on top of renovating several houses now, on the house I currently live in I have built a 40m2 timber framed extension. I did everything except plumbing, electrics, the plastering the existing brick wall that was 30mm out of plumb over 3m, and the thin coat render. Everything else, from digging the foundations, to laying the substructure brickwork, making the timber panels, tiling the roof, fitting the rooflights, fitting the bifolds, tiling, fitting the kitchen, and decorating was all my work. Came out alright too
I will upload to "Your Projects", but here's a couple of pics...
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The whole kitchen was second hand. It was a genuine £50k kitchen that I picked up for 1/10 the price. I just had to rearrange the units slightly to fit, and because of that cut some of the granite to length and get one more bit of granite.
The granite was broken around the sink and hob but I repaired it with resin and fitted it myself, yes.
How skilled do you have to be to build newbuild ?
My skills were those of an electronics design engineer and my wife's skills were those of a school teacher,
Between us we built this, everything except the chimney stack and the slates on the roof was DIY
My skills were those of an electronics design engineer and my wife's skills were those of a school teacher,
Between us we built this, everything except the chimney stack and the slates on the roof was DIY
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Nice work.
I think it depends on the complexity of the design and the intricacy of some of the detailing, along with a desire to learn and a natural propensity to be good at, and enjoy, building things. A DIYer will not usually have the skills to do the most complex parts of some builds, or the most intricate detailing, themselves.
Watching programmes such as Grand Designs and it's amazing what DIYers with little knowledge of building can achieve. On the flip side, people call themselves self builders when actually they have only project managed the build, or even just bought the plot and left everything else to the professionals.
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Nice!. My OH mucks in as well. I think she would divorce me if I said we were moving again to build or refurb another house, but we've just built this 100% DIY except digging out for the raft and barrowing the concrete, (sharp eyes may spot still some window trim to fit) and my next project (after some hard landscaping) is a garden room office, again clad, but this time timber frame and part SIPS with a slate roof. Got to have some projects...
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Looks very good did you get a bricklayer in?
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Is this the actual house you both built?
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Yes it is.
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I was thinking the same thingBrickwork looks pretty decent for a DIYer
Builders would have charged £10,000 for the labour part of the job
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It looks to me like a good quality job
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I won't do electrics (or not much anyway), as for the rest, I'm the wrong side of 60 and when I started out with houses had no choice but to DIY as we had little money. Over the years I've just had a go. It's much easier now because there are so many online resources. Two tips from me - 1) plan - do drawings, work it out as best you can before you start - IMHO half the battle with e.g. roofing is setting it all out. 2) don't hold back buying good tools for the job in hand. I recently saved ~£10K+ making some sash windows, but I had to buy £2K of tools to do it (Domino, band saw, router+table). I can get most jobs done, but I probably take 4 x as long as a pro would. There's no magic bullet! BTW, you use gecko gauges to help install cladding nice and even.
I know Colchester quite well - lived in Harwich for many years and still have family down that way.
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