Finally got it sanded and undercoat on -It's only a wheelbarrow so it's not car body quality.
It was bloody cold out there over weekend - So waiting for Hammerite to turn up and paint it black -Also got SS lock nuts and bolt's coming this week.
Still got to do barrow bed but will finish frame first.
Yeah but obvs he'll have a work barrow, and this'll become his "best" barrow.
What's the plan?Lifted some floorboards
MDF bath panel not really suitable but Mrs's place and on a budget. Some fielded panels have been added, not pictured.
Looks mega. I'm considering this style for my bathroom. Where did you get the tiles from? Would you recommend?I can't even remember exactly when we started on this bathroom, some point during the summer of 2022. Life got in the way someone and efforts were focused elsewhere in the kitchen.
Not entirely sure when I removed the towel radiator, can't seem to find my original post.
Chased the walls and had the entire floor up at one point to put down ply to save around 10mm for floor level and to also put down tileboard. A very small room as you can see.
Marble tiling
Spend about 2 hours on Friday night fitting the toilet and swearing at the generic fitting kit which wasn't really suitable. There's been no upstairs loo for over a year which means navigating stairs in the dark half asleep to sit on the coldest throne. Removed the cast iron stack and moved it a few inches to the left a while back.
Washstand will make an appearance once a marble top has been sourced. Recessed wall cabinet which I need to find a solution to hinge a mirror on.
(temporary loo-seat)
Also prepped the pipework for the shower mixer ahead of next weekend. This is the same wall as the radiator which is only around 9-10cm thick, a cupboard in an adjacent bedroom houses the boiler.
Bent around the boiler cover so it can be removed easily without having to disconnect the shower. State of some of the electrics in this house
I would have liked to have teed in with copper but you can see the push fit where the builders mutilated things for the extension. I fully expect the shower mixer to need some attention after a water test so being able to easily remove the assembly is no bad thing. Mixer has 22mm couplings in and 15mm out.
Rewire, replumb every room
Rewire, replumb every room
fit a breathable membrane
add 140mm of rockwool or earthwool
DPM on top
overboard with 22mm OSB/ply
Carpet bedrooms and lounge, vinyl tile or engineered wood hallways, kitchen/dining
Open kitchen dining wall with steel
Raise windows
close off lounge
create new front door
turn window to patio doors
plaster
paint
oak doors
new trim and skirting
air source heat pump
new bathroom
new kitchen
new wc (moving to current porch)
relay patio
level garden and fence off
sell it
build a house next door.
I did see some. I am having the debate as my foundation is a concrete slab, with the timbers on air bricks. Having cleared two rooms it is bone dry and there is no access for rodents as the air vents are concrete and set into the brick well. I am therefore thinking that I will add straps to support the insulation slabs and then consider a DPM above. However if I end up fitting ply/osb with tongue and groove, by the time I add underlay with a vapour barrier for carpet/engineered wood, I can't see how it would be needed. The skirting will overlap the floorboard and be caulked and glued so there will be no airflow ingress at the edges. I can't imagine much will get through 140mm of rockwool/earthwool, interlocked floorboards, underlay with vapour barrier and then the carpet/engineered floor. Definitely will be little to no downwards movement of moisture through all that.
Have you seen my thread/posts? I did sub floor insulation and used PIR and batons, absolute game changer. I've seen a few Instagram Reno stories using loft roll and they've been slammed. Worth spending the cash on 100mm if you can get it...marketplace...think I paid 500 for 50sqm. I think I'll use rockwool upstairs.
.I went for dodgy builder on Facebook marketplace. He seemed more amiable to delivering smaller quantities. He couldn't tell you brand name till delivery day tho so I don't doubt some of it was half inched from local new build sitesthe thing is, I can go for 0.0035/m at 100mm or 0.004 at 120mm, essentially identical performance. Baton/batten, my mistake
I specified the heat pump assuming 100mm, but without the knowledge that we had a full concrete slab. Will see if I can get supply at a reasonable price. @dlockers, where did you find best for insulation supply?
Calacatta from Starel Stones. This is all my O/H's research etc. As you'd expect these need regularly sealing.
Pain this one with moving the sewer a few feet.
