Re-building a house

I'm back with pictures!

Barely made it to the house during daylight because of my job, I managed to get a hour for myself. Before we proceed I must warn you, I'm known for my UNsteady hand.

Welcome to my "house"!

Picture 1


This is the old lock that was rusted and couldn't get it open. Got me some anti-rust spray or whatever it's called, sprayed it a few times and tried to open it, but didn't work. Therefor I said "f*** it", gave it a few hammers and voila:

Picture 2


...and hello new lock:

Picture 3


Now, this is the house behind the "fence". As you can already see, my neighbor and/or other people assisted in preparing a garbage rug for us to witness. I will show more of this phenomena at the end when we'll leave the house.

Picture 4


If we look at the left from the garden/yard door (i think it's called porch or something) we can see a small corridor along the house

Picture 5


We sneak a peek at the roof

Picture 6


We look again at the garbage but really fast and we get a blurry image

Picture 7


We walk through the minefield till we come across the door. We imagine opening it, but really imagine it, because i couldn't. Key didn't work, i had to go through a window inside.

Picture 8


One quick look at our door from the inside

Picture 9


With the door closed behind us we see a ...room. Stunned by it, we get a blurry sight of it.

Picture 10


Recovering from our dissyiness, we look down on the right in the small room/anteroom and see:

Picture 11


We look again in front of us, but tword the ceiling:

Picture 12


Now from this room we can either go left or right. But before we do that we'll take a picture or two at the wall on the left side of the room:

Picture 13


Picture 14


Oh and almost forgot here's a hole in the ground by the wall and the house' foundation (I think it's ~30 cm high):

Picture 15


This is the step through the other room:

Picture 16


Left wall of the room on the left.:

Picture 17


Rain holes in the ground:

Picture 18


ceiling above the holes in the ground:

Picture 19


Now back to the room in which we were previously, right in front of the entrance. From picture 10 we look tword the right room:

Picture 20


A picture of a corner in that room (corner is the farthest left corner of the room you see in picture 20):

Picture 21


We are inside the room, and we look up at the cealing. We see some light coming between the cracks. It's a manhole in the upper roof. I don't know how it's called in English.

Picture 22


We see a hole, probably a woodfire heater was here:

Picture 23


Now we look behind that wall with the chimney hole and see another room, the floor was made by me when i was younger:

Picture 24


Picture 25


We get inside that room and see the ceiling is not made out of wood anymore, oh and that's the window i got through into the house::

Picture 26


We look further. Here in this small space i think there was the kitchen:

Picture 27


Further from the kitchen, we find the bathroom, the ceiling is the same:

Picture 28


I didn't get further to picture the room in the right because it was full of spider webs and i was still in work clothes.

We take a picture jumping out of the house, therefor it's blurry:

Picture 29


We take a look at the room we didn't visit from the outside:

Picture 30


Picture 31


One more look at the garbage:

Picture 32


Oh and there's my car gate!

Picture 33


Bye bye house!

Picture 34


Gypsies next door on the right:

Picture 35


House wall is common with the neighbor's wall

Picture 36


Roof pictures:

Picture 37-38-39-40







 
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Ok my net went down. Those were all of the pictures. Where should I start? What would you do first if you'd acquire this house and want to make it liveable?
 
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Demolishing is out of the question. It's very expensive to get an approval from the municipal council. Now what would take to reconsolidate the house? What should i check first? The foundation? The walls? The attic? The roof? How should i check it/them? What should I be aware of?
 
I thought it throughly: In my unexperienced opinion, and based on others, i say the foundation is pretty weak/small. Because of the demolition expenses, reconsolidation is far cheaper. So, I am thinking of fixing the foundation, making resistant/withstand pillars (i'm not sure of the term, maybe you can help me out identifying it) outside the house so it won't occupy space and pour concrete ceiling. After this i can knock down the walls and re-brick them back up.

Is this possible? If not, why and what should be done instead?

Oh and I can't stress further that demolishing is out of the question.
 
Hello alastairreid! Thank you for giving me first instructions on what to do. I was starting to get anxious :(. For a "surveyors report" or "surveyor" I wonder what's the term in Romanian. What would a surveyors report say about a house?
 
First thing is first, i have to determine what kind of soil the house is sitting on. I'm currently looking for the specialist required to do this. Another problem is that an earthquake is imminent in the following years. I have to run now. 'Till next time
 

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