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Interesting, subbed.
Project - 37a (Wendyhouse)
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'Carefully' 
One to watch.
One to watch.
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I see that we share similar approaches to diy demolition. subbing to scavenge ideas for when I get my new place.
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might be worth a watch..
Next stage of the footing and groundwork completed today. It went a little deeper than expected but it'll be made up in the next week. It also ended up a good 300mm longer than expected, I was given a "rough" size a few months ago and today I was earwigging the sizes and it's wider so a bit more room to use internally.
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Small non photographic update.
Started pulling the 3 cat5's in this afternoon. I've discovered 20mm rigid conduit can fit 4 cables however flexible 20mm conduit can barely just get 3 into it with a fight. This has annoyed me a bit but seeing how I've already bought the conduit I'm just going to run 3 cables not 4 (means 1 spare rather than 2).
Started pulling the 3 cat5's in this afternoon. I've discovered 20mm rigid conduit can fit 4 cables however flexible 20mm conduit can barely just get 3 into it with a fight. This has annoyed me a bit but seeing how I've already bought the conduit I'm just going to run 3 cables not 4 (means 1 spare rather than 2).
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***must resist urge to build mancave!!!***
Man I love these, I would love the opportunity to build one!
Man I love these, I would love the opportunity to build one!
This was my condition of buying the house, the others we looked at had integrated computer rooms but the house we chose didn't but has a lovely big kitchen and was £10k cheaper.
My condition was a man cave for £10k based on that saving.
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I like the way you operate Steve! What sort of time frame do you expect to complete the works? Can't wait to see the finished product!
The builders are doing the work on their weekends for me so I was told 8-10 weeks. So far they've done 3 working weekends on it and I think they'll be on good track to be done in time.
Once built it will probably be a few weeks more until I've decked it out and fully moved in.
Between now and then I have some stuff I have to sort for example in house networking so I can patch the cave in.
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Another non photographic update from yesterday:
Network cable is now pulled all the way up to the house, the conduit was a real nightmare to use but the cables are in now, I've turned the network on it's head to get where I am but it'll work for me for now. Just need a ladder to get it trunked up the wall and into the attic.
Satellite cable is also run with network cable, I can't put an aerial on the shed as it would then class as a dwelling however I have a disused sky mini dish on the house so have run coax down from that as I have a freesat box I wanted to make use of in the cave.
Should have a really good update end of today (providing the blocks turn up).
Network cable is now pulled all the way up to the house, the conduit was a real nightmare to use but the cables are in now, I've turned the network on it's head to get where I am but it'll work for me for now. Just need a ladder to get it trunked up the wall and into the attic.
Satellite cable is also run with network cable, I can't put an aerial on the shed as it would then class as a dwelling however I have a disused sky mini dish on the house so have run coax down from that as I have a freesat box I wanted to make use of in the cave.
Should have a really good update end of today (providing the blocks turn up).
So the blocks have turned up on time (for once) and a fair bit of progress has been made!
The "gap" on the right hand wall is where 1 window will go
Face on to the window
The blue brick standing up is where the dividing wall will go, should be enough room for a decent cave
Internals
And I now have all network cables trunked down to the cave (awaiting going into the attic though) along with the satellite cable. Just waiting for a sparky to get the cable down and then they will all get buried together.
As I'm off this week on paternity duties I'm going to try and get the network cabling finished off and in as I have some the other side of the house that needs finishing as well.
The "gap" on the right hand wall is where 1 window will go
Face on to the window
The blue brick standing up is where the dividing wall will go, should be enough room for a decent cave
Internals
And I now have all network cables trunked down to the cave (awaiting going into the attic though) along with the satellite cable. Just waiting for a sparky to get the cable down and then they will all get buried together.
As I'm off this week on paternity duties I'm going to try and get the network cabling finished off and in as I have some the other side of the house that needs finishing as well.
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Looks great! I'm sure it was already mentioned but what's going in the other side of the partition?
Thank you
The other half is going to be a brick storage shed. I had toyed with having it all as office but there is a practical voice in my head.
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good luck!, can almost guarantee you will go over budget, you will do what i done and see something you want and buy it
Thank you, it was your cave that lit this fuse in my mind and a great inspiration.
Currently I think I'm gonna go £1k over without having "moved in" but I'm going to see how it goes. I may have saved a small bit by having a step down into it rather than spending out an a few extra tonnes of stone we hadn't accounted for.
Another full day on the cave today; Outer skin is pretty much completed now with window and door holes. Roof will start to make an appearance next weekend (providing it doesn't hammer it down).
Yes the floor is yet to go down and I think the plan is it will go in week after next (once roof is on)
Network cables down to it get there own appreciation image, if you look at the window (top right of image) the gutter is only just above it, internally there is a foot and a half to ceiling height, naturally this means a large cavern from the attic to the gutter and it was an emotional 5 hours threading the cable in! However the fit is brilliant now and the solid conduit (20mm or 3 cat5's) fits beautiful inside the 20mm hole.
The building site
My sidegate and wall had to be chopped out to get the digger in and it's been a very non-private few weeks with the side of the house wide open. Today we also got the wall re-built (to be rendered). Gate will hang next weekend and another coarse on top of the existing one as it would have been unsafe to lay it today.
Finally, a 25mm solid conduit onto the front of the house from attic down to level with the existing hole, this will house 4 cat5 cables going into the attic patch panels. This will be the feed for the man cave (with spare) and to the poe switch for house AP's. Fascia not drilled yet as I didn't have the emotional well being to go another 5 hours trying to thread more cables. The cable coming down the roof is the current cat5 to my receiving gear. This cable is being moved to the attic patch panel as well so the cable won't be cable tied to the back of the drain pipe. In time I'd like to re-do the cable run as I didn't run it originally and I'm not too happy as some of the tie downs have come out.
Yes the floor is yet to go down and I think the plan is it will go in week after next (once roof is on)
Network cables down to it get there own appreciation image, if you look at the window (top right of image) the gutter is only just above it, internally there is a foot and a half to ceiling height, naturally this means a large cavern from the attic to the gutter and it was an emotional 5 hours threading the cable in! However the fit is brilliant now and the solid conduit (20mm or 3 cat5's) fits beautiful inside the 20mm hole.
The building site
My sidegate and wall had to be chopped out to get the digger in and it's been a very non-private few weeks with the side of the house wide open. Today we also got the wall re-built (to be rendered). Gate will hang next weekend and another coarse on top of the existing one as it would have been unsafe to lay it today.
Finally, a 25mm solid conduit onto the front of the house from attic down to level with the existing hole, this will house 4 cat5 cables going into the attic patch panels. This will be the feed for the man cave (with spare) and to the poe switch for house AP's. Fascia not drilled yet as I didn't have the emotional well being to go another 5 hours trying to thread more cables. The cable coming down the roof is the current cat5 to my receiving gear. This cable is being moved to the attic patch panel as well so the cable won't be cable tied to the back of the drain pipe. In time I'd like to re-do the cable run as I didn't run it originally and I'm not too happy as some of the tie downs have come out.
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