Recent content by gumballw

Ah yes Ivixor, moving the doors is a faff, but to be honest I reckon it's worth doing (and I quite fancied having a go...). The second bedroom (10ftx 9ft) will really benefit from having the extra couple of feet and the master bed will have some storage as a bit of a buffer between it and the...

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Hi, I'm taking apart my kitchen and have discovered this under the wallpaper: view from the side by window Can anyone tell me why this column was covered in 4 layers of cement render? I can't imagine that it is, but could the render be doing something structural for the wall...

Next task was to tile the floor. I worked out the layout I wanted (am keeping costs to a minimum by not switching around the services) and stuck down a load of wickes' finest porcelain fakies. Look lovely if I do say so myself. There was A LOT of cutting involved because apparently...

At the other end (hallway side) there's a small step down. Rather than ruin the end of the marble floor by putting the new stud wall over the marble tiles, I decided to stick on the lower floor. However, this meant the head plate ran between the ceiling joists. Ripped down the ceiling, fitted...

So, beginning at the beginning.. This last month has been the concentrated on expanding the tiny kitchen into the adjacent dining room/hallway and sticking up a stud wall with double doors to separate it from hall/front door. Documented progress – didn’t take any full-scale pics of it...

I’m a novice DIYer re-doing my 2 bed basement flat (Victorian mansion block conversion). Major items on the refurb – expanding the kitchen, adding a couple of en-suite bathrooms, refurbing two bedrooms, carving up the hallway and doing some landscaping to the garden. I reckon this is a 6-month...