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That looks like an easy project if you ask me i'd be happy to do that as I personally love decorating.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! WOOHOOO!!! (got the keys to a new place)
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You people are too paranoid. SB? has been renting with this bloke for 9 years, is a family friend. You can put trust in these sort of people. The reason SB? has this house is because it is in such a ****state, basically he helps do it up and he gets the rent of it.
Kitchen ceiling is plastered, walls have had a patch coat to level them off.
Couple more for Duke too.
Wonder if they clamped to the insulation ...
This how the downlights were wired up (and this is the 240 feed in, not the 12 out!)
Couple more for Duke too.
Wonder if they clamped to the insulation ...
This how the downlights were wired up (and this is the 240 feed in, not the 12 out!)
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Please be aware that the next test chamber involves exposure to uninsulated electrical parts...
Dining room gutted, cabled, plastered.
Living room, gutted, cabled, getting plastered tomorrow. Bigass conduit down the middle so i can run hdmi/network/scart cables/etc without it getting ugly.
Last day with the plasterers tomorrow, then the chippie comes back in to sort the kitchen out.
Been spending time getting a whitewash coat on the new plaster, so not much real progress the last few days.
Forgot how time consuming it is to run new light fittings, much ado with measuring, runing upstairs and taking up floorboards,running dowstairs, pushing the cables through, back up stairs to pull it through, etc. At no time did i route a cable and forget to push it through the joist and only notice when i went to refit the floorboards.
Cut and cabled the lights in the kitchen, two circuits of three.
Cut and cabled the downstairs hallway.
Think i may be developing a vagina as i spent ages obsessing if i should line up the hallway lights with the width of the ceiling or the door gaps.
Forgot how time consuming it is to run new light fittings, much ado with measuring, runing upstairs and taking up floorboards,running dowstairs, pushing the cables through, back up stairs to pull it through, etc. At no time did i route a cable and forget to push it through the joist and only notice when i went to refit the floorboards.
Cut and cabled the lights in the kitchen, two circuits of three.
Cut and cabled the downstairs hallway.
Think i may be developing a vagina as i spent ages obsessing if i should line up the hallway lights with the width of the ceiling or the door gaps.
Haha, great comment, nah it's worth thinking about...I'd have probably gone with the width of the ceiling though
LALALALA, i'm not listening!
If i used the ceiling width (which makes more sense), then the lights appear to be quite offset as the doorframes are tight to one side of the hall. ARGH!Apart from sob when i look out the back windows, nope. Going to have to wait till we are in the place before i can make a proper start. Days are a bit short as i have to get back for the wife to start work at 4.
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lookin good, you should go into business buying crappy properties and doing them up
Nice work
Thats what people have been doing for the last 10 years at least - hence all the TV shows about doing it. I doubt there are many projects like this one left apart from in the cities maybe.
lookin good, you should go into business buying crappy properties and doing them up
Thats what people have been doing for the last 10 years at least - hence all the TV shows about doing it. I doubt there are many projects like this one left apart from in the cities maybe.
MORE painting and fitted a few lights.
Wife had got a coat of "malt chocolate" on the upstairs hallway before i pointed out that i needed to chop out the wall for the cables to get the wall lights the same height. (NOTHING in this place seems to have been done right!)
Place should be ready shortly after i get my buspass.
Wife had got a coat of "malt chocolate" on the upstairs hallway before i pointed out that i needed to chop out the wall for the cables to get the wall lights the same height. (NOTHING in this place seems to have been done right!)
Place should be ready shortly after i get my buspass.
Not seen the builders for 3 weeks now, so i've done a load more painting and tidied up a bit. Then made a mes again
Kitchen floor is coming up, for some reason they had a sand/cement base and tiles, even though the floor under it was fine.
Mug for scale ...
I had a bit of a panic with the living room floor, we're going to be laying wood flooring and there are bumps along the side of the room where the foundations are for the upright posts (house is a pre-formed concrete slot together type, with upright posts and wall sections slotted in between), meaning the flooring wouldn't be able to go to the walls, argh!
So i started to "trim" the lumps in the floor and it turns out the lumps were just thicker layers of whatever tar/bitumin compound they've used. Meaning i just need to patch the gaps and i have a flat floor to work with
Kitchen floor is coming up, for some reason they had a sand/cement base and tiles, even though the floor under it was fine.
Mug for scale ...
I had a bit of a panic with the living room floor, we're going to be laying wood flooring and there are bumps along the side of the room where the foundations are for the upright posts (house is a pre-formed concrete slot together type, with upright posts and wall sections slotted in between), meaning the flooring wouldn't be able to go to the walls, argh!
So i started to "trim" the lumps in the floor and it turns out the lumps were just thicker layers of whatever tar/bitumin compound they've used. Meaning i just need to patch the gaps and i have a flat floor to work with
Love this thread, really like how you keep everyone posted on the progress of your work, it's a shame I'm not local to you because I and probably a few of us would love to have come and helped with the skip runs, clean-up, painting, wall-papering etc. Keep up the good work.
Didn't get very far today.
Dug up some more of the old concrete/tiles and as i stood up something went twang in my back and i fell over. Luckily i landed on the bags of rubble so i didn't hit the broken tiles on the floor (which are like sodding razor blades once they are splintered, found that out yesterday!)
You can see in the right of the picture where a previous owner took out the back door and bricked it up (explains the fractionally raised square section on the floor, dunnoo if the old door was set in from the wall)
Think i'll have a couple days off now
Dug up some more of the old concrete/tiles and as i stood up something went twang in my back and i fell over. Luckily i landed on the bags of rubble so i didn't hit the broken tiles on the floor (which are like sodding razor blades once they are splintered, found that out yesterday!)
You can see in the right of the picture where a previous owner took out the back door and bricked it up (explains the fractionally raised square section on the floor, dunnoo if the old door was set in from the wall)
Think i'll have a couple days off now