PPP

homers_double

Why reduce the space by infilling the alcoves? Couldn't you do something more usefull instead of creating a void?

Of is the grey stuff at the bottom the chimney breast?

pinno

homers double wrote:

Why reduce the space by infilling the alcoves? Couldn't you do something more usefull instead of creating a void?

Of is the grey stuff at the bottom the chimney breast?

They grey stuff is the start of the original gable end before the house was converted from single story to double in '78.

Unfortunately, the gable end is at least 16" up at the point the bedroom is. It makes for an awkward space.
Each bedroom has a walk in cupboard though which have scope.
I wasn't trying to make space upstairs. The bedrooms are more than reasonable in size. It's the downstairs that's getting a massive overhaul. The space that has been created by knocking down the wall in the hall is just excellent. The kitchen wall will come down and I am going to rebuild it with double French doors so that it creates a division between living area and dining area but at the same time, increasing accessibility and light.

pinno

How to replace a window: Forget about the wall, forget about any reference point - as there isn't a square or a vertical line to be had for love nor money. Create one yourself and forget the window aperture is even there. I think this was the original back door, eons ago when it was a very small cottage.

















Only took 3 days, 12 wedges, 9 apple turnovers and plentiful supply of expletives.

Matthewfalle

The more I see of this the more I think 'bloody hell that's a big job'

Fair play for it bashing it out (ooooeeeerrrrr) - looking pukka.

pinno

Now for the RSJ. Bloody thing and a bit of plaster board removal:

That's down to the guts of the thing.



Finished the foundations for the RSJ uprights:





Now to box them in and frame the overhead H section ready for plasterboard:







Don't know whether to gloss them because it seems like an acre of paint or plasterboard and plaster them. The one adjacent to the stairs is 'discreet' enough (for want of a better description) but the one nearer the door is a little bigger.



Wall removed so that I can cure the rising damp and install full French doors and 2 demi panels. Which will also increase the light. I membraned and cemented the excavation in the floor today but the shadows and the gloss of wet cement didn't make a good picture.



So, slight junction now and end of the cul-de-sac of demolition. Place is cleaned up and all flooring removed.

I can now get on with the silly job list:

Plasterboard on left hand side of window aperture is 5/8ths" out and a shim in the top right needs to be reduced so that the plasterboard is square. That'll be fun. :roll:
Some jointing compound in utility room ceiling to cover a gap that's too big.
Odd bits of Celotex in odd places to finish.
More jointing compound where old plasterboard met the ceiling and the edges aren't 'clean'. Short of Celotex/plasterboard sandwich which comes in 32.5mm (12.5 mm of plasterboard and 20 mm Celotex) which would cover the edges, it's the simpler and much cheaper solution.
Faffing around with some 1/2" strapping to do a combo of Dot and dab to get the plasterboard on the kitchen wall which also has to match up with the width of the aperture for the French doors and not occlude the opposite kitchen door frame - well at least leave enough to face the door off faithfully...

...and so it goes on.

team47b

A week! A week! Seven days! No progress! Lazy fecker

pinno

It's a fair cop gov. I've just been sat on my aris with a chisel, an SDS drill and a good old fashioned sharpening stone...

The Apple turnover consumption rate has been off set by the accelerated consumption of Danish Crowns and 1 Doughnut.
Next week may herald a new era - Pecan twists.

team47b

'oliday over, back on yer 'ead lad :roll:

Thread steal alert! I mean bump

Whilst we wait for the French door here's a Moroccan table I made earlier...

homers_double

Pinno, are you A/Living in it. B/Moving into it or C/Selling/renting it out?

pinno

C. (a)

Need to download pics for update... back soonish.

pinno

team47b wrote:

'oliday over, back on yer 'ead lad :roll:

Thread steal alert! I mean bump

Whilst we wait for the French door here's a Moroccan table I made earlier...

Double's up as a laundry rack, excellent.

pinno

Done, damn things. 7 days + 2 evenings, over 28 pastries and the same number of cartons of juice...





A few days off to charge the batteries, do some pedalling and next week: build a toilet! :roll:

pinno

Downstairs cloak room toilet built.

...and then the beginning of the mammoth plaster boarding :roll:

team47b

Nice one! Turned the corner now.

How many sheets of plasterboard are you going to need! :shock:

homers_double

Plasterboarding will cheer you up you miserable git, things will look a hundred times better when you can't see the studding.

pinno

homers double wrote:

Plasterboarding will cheer you up you miserable git, things will look a hundred times better when you can't see the studding.

Will it?!

I did all that lovely framework and in the cloak room toilet, all the plumbing. Now all my work has been covered up by the plasterboard as if nothing has happened. happy that unlike the rest of the original framing, it's all square.

homers_double

The memories will fade but the PPP thread will live forever.

team47b

Where's the waste pipe for that sink going?

pinno

team47b wrote:

Where's the waste pipe for that sink going?

I have already cut the hole for the waste pipe. The sink sits on 2 batons protruding from the plasterboard. If you look at the first pic, you'll see where I have put two horizontal 3 x 2" CLS slats. The batons slide in between and out the other side. That picture was taken before I cut the slots for the batons and before I drilled a 28mm hole for the waste outlet. You can see the batons under the sink.
It means I could put the water resistant plaster board in and at a later point after plastering/tiling the inside, just screw the batons in and pop the sink on them.
The waste goes immediately left as I have 3" of space between the plaster board to another elbow along the left hand wall.

team47b

I see, I thought waste pipes went through the slab and you would have to cut the concrete and having cut it you could pop over here and do my workshop floor for me

pinno

I see.

There's an existing waste pipe through the wall and out from the original set up. I'm hoping that I don't strain myself using my silicone gun.

team47b

I tried

pinno

You know i'd love to. Send Mrs T47 over to help Mrs P and i'll come over with an SDS drill in my hand luggage and sort it and sort of few other things too probably.

team47b

Resurrecting this as a hint to pinno, come on why are we waiting

In the meantime the studio stick fest continues...

pinno

^ That's a work of art.

I still have ceilings to plasterboard and a whole load of other silly jobs like positioning of the radiator in the living room.
I've done the straps to support it. I need to connect my new pipe work to a 15mm to 10mm reducer, place and secure the pipes and then insulate > pb.
In the bathroom upstairs, I have to move a heated towel rail to get access to pb...
In the hall, I have to wait for sparky bloke to sort out wiring from fuse box underneath the floorboards in the cavity between floor and ceiling before I can pb that...
In the kitchen, I need to take off all the paper on the ceiling before 'over-boarding' (mainly to reveal the beams for support)...
In the living room, there are 2 strips of pb that were removed for the beam placement. I have to re-do the strap mounts and secure the new pipework and fake the central beam faking where I removed it to fit the beam so it wouldn't combust prior to welding...

When that is all said and done, i'll take some pics.
Today mostly comprised of using up as many working off-cuts (as I have run out - 50 sheets and counting) of pb and then a mahoosive clean up in the house which spilled on to the garden which turned into other jobs. I nearly killed ex gulag bloke.
However, we got a lot done. The next 2 weeks will be spent in the garden and perhaps a few jobs around the house so you'll just have to wait i'm afraid.

rjsterry

Very impressed, particularly the taping of the Celotex.* The hassle I have getting actual builders to do that bit properly.

* I'll let myself out.

Matthewfalle

team47b wrote:

Resurrecting this as a hint to pinno, come on why are we waiting

In the meantime the studio stick fest continues...

That does rock - makes me want to head back out Italia way....

homers_double

Looks like PP is going through shortly and I've just found the next, a stone fronted cottage for 55k about a mile from me.

Ideal PP fodder so will have a looksee on the way home!

pinno

Cheers rjsterry.

PPP internally is on hold. Externally, the last few weeks have been spent pulling Ivy in the garden, plus other things before the weeds and the grass shoots... then I got to that pile of Whinstone. Then I got the idea that I would build the stone dyke that I was going to leave to an 'expert'.
Just finished the damn thing. Pics when I have tidied up a little.

pinno

homers double wrote:

Looks like PP is going through shortly and I've just found the next, a stone fronted cottage for 55k about a mile from me.

Ideal PP fodder so will have a looksee on the way home!

If you do go ahead, you'll have to catalogue the renovation.