1930s Semi Refurb - Part 5 of ... (Edition: 'Dining' Room)

Bit of progress today. The plumber is definitely booked for Monday 8am... I was hoping to have cleared the floor boards so that they could do all of the rads. Unfortunately progress is pretty slow...


Whipped out the track saw:
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First three were different and must have come up at some point. Unclear why!

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Got almost the full length up. Plumber can now sink the pipes underneath and fit the new rad.

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Unfortunately there is a solid wall between the dining room (pictured) and the hall, which I ran out of time to try and attack... the plan is a 22mm drop feeds this dining rad, and then a vertical rad will go on a "close but not that close" wall nearby...
 
Good work.
Did you get the track saw for this or did you already have it? Could do with one of those.
What type of column radiator are you having fitted?
We’ve got a traditional style column being fitted in one of the alcoves of our dining room on Friday.
 
Good work.
Did you get the track saw for this or did you already have it? Could do with one of those.
What type of column radiator are you having fitted?
We’ve got a traditional style column being fitted in one of the alcoves of our dining room on Friday.
My brother has quite the DeWalt collection so he has brought it down for me. It is an awesome bit of kit.

I went with Acova as I fitted one for my mum 15 years ago and it still looks great.
 
Looking good.

Are you running in all electrics, insulation and the like with the floor up?

I'll be doing the same soon with a turn of the 20th century floor with lathe & plaster walls for electrics and making the floor good....Got the depth cut track saw and all, but am not looking forward to it one bit.
Priority right now is to convince the plumbers that hiding the pipework was part of the quote :cry:

But yeah I've got all of my gear including a socket sinking tool, wire, insulation - I may try and have a weekend off as I'm pretty battered as it stands right now.
 
I'm not actually clear what my walls are yet - plaster on brick seems to be the theme so far! In which case I'll be getting the masonry bit out and drilling a thousand holes.

There are definitely some sockets sunk into the wall so fingers crossed.
 
I'm not actually clear what my walls are yet - plaster on brick seems to be the theme so far! In which case I'll be getting the masonry bit out and drilling a thousand holes.

There are definitely some sockets sunk into the wall so fingers crossed.
All my sockets are installed inside the skirting board. Currently moving them to the walls. With it being a 1930s house the plaster is very thick, so with a 2.5” back box I don’t need to chisel much brick to fit the metal back box. Yours may be the same.
 
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Looking good.

Are you running in all electrics, insulation and the like with the floor up?

I'll be doing the same soon with a turn of the 20th century floor with lathe & plaster walls for electrics and making the floor good....Got the depth cut track saw and all, but am not looking forward to it one bit.
Aren’t there risks involved with insulating under the floor boards as the house is designed to breath. E.g Wood rot? I read this previously so haven’t insulated under the floor. (Also a 1930s property).
 
Aren’t there risks involved with insulating under the floor boards as the house is designed to breath. E.g Wood rot? I read this previously so haven’t insulated under the floor. (Also a 1930s property).
It's a floating floor with air bricks front and back so I don't see why it would cause an issue.
 
It's a floating floor with air bricks front and back so I don't see why it would cause an issue.
We had our (identical style house) insulated with rock wool which is netted under the boards and then staples. Still plenty of airflow and to be honest - has made quite a difference heatwise! The wooden floors are now a lot warmer.. at least in my mind! Unsure if physics and thermodynamics would agree! Neat job with the saw. A must if they’re tongue and groove just to take the tongue off.
 
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Hi folks, spent the day trying to make progress on the "dining room" (was the living room I think). After considering lots of other jobs I could be doing, I have decided this is the best place to start... I've cleared it out to the outbuilding, so just my desk and a few other bits in here now.

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The main objective was to be able to sort the pipework out for the new column rad I ordered. And then sort out wiring for new plugs. However rolling back soon became a pain, and self-evident I needed to just lift the lot...

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Sacrilege to consider cutting these boards as they are uncut 4m boards for the most part, however enough of the floor is patched to make me not feel too guilty.

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^ No wonder the telephone didn't work (I jest).

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^ Revealed the "original?" hearth.

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^ Liveable

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^ This is the hallway that has the pipework that feeds the dining room. The retrofit of heating must have been done in the early 1990s. A decision was made to run the pipework on the skirting, annoyingly. It comes down from the roof at this point so I lifted the relatively "new" carpet and discovered the original parquet hall floor. Not worth saving I don't think, but kind of nice.

The plan is to take the 22mm (not visible) into the floor and run it to the dining room rad, and spur off for a new hallway rad, and also plumb in the living room rad.

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^ Cross post from networking but this is the rough idea. I've also got some insulation coming from a dodgy bloke on the internet (£42/unit for 2.4m x 1.2m celotax/kingspan).

Watch this space...


Coming in late and catching up. I'd be looking at how you use the spaces and if you have people round etc. I know when I have people over it's often people are in the kitchen and that, so with the kitchen and dining room detached from each other I personally would have the lounge at the front of the house, knock down the wall between the kitchen and dining room and open up to have a kitchen dining room with a big island between the two. As your kitchen is 1930s style and long, it would make it so much more open. I'd probably eventually remove the window in the dining room for some big double doors to have a nice flow into the back garden for nice summer days.

I know I'm far too late for this :P just think it would make the space so much more open and flow between usable zones of activity.
 
I've just seen in another thread I was looking at the wrong end (window wise) and you have double doors :P but the rest of it stands :D I'd probably eventually go bigger - big old open doors covering the wall to let in all the light

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Coming in late and catching up. I'd be looking at how you use the spaces and if you have people round etc. I know when I have people over it's often people are in the kitchen and that, so with the kitchen and dining room detached from each other I personally would have the lounge at the front of the house, knock down the wall between the kitchen and dining room and open up to have a kitchen dining room with a big island between the two. As your kitchen is 1930s style and long, it would make it so much more open. I'd probably eventually remove the window in the dining room for some big double doors to have a nice flow into the back garden for nice summer days.

I know I'm far too late for this :p just think it would make the space so much more open and flow between usable zones of activity.
It's a source of much debate! As costs have gone up exponentially and I'm mortgaged up to the eyeballs it may not be realistic to do plan A which was to build an entirely new kitchen diner much like what you can see the neighbors on the left have. The current kitchen would then be split into a study/utiliry.

That makes any other ideas a bit of a compromise -- and how much were willing to pay for that compromise.

The cheapest solution I've engineered is extending the kitchen into the utility, bricking up that back door for a nice window, and then being content with the layout till a point that a proper extension/another house move is possible.

I'm not a fan of the kitchen diner with the floor plan as it currently stands as it feels like an even more expensive compromise.
 
Right chaps!

Getting a bit sick and tired of living/working in the building site, so I need to get a move on. The sparky is booked for 28th March, so that'll see consumer unit and porch outdoor sockets fitted.

I plan to lift the rest of the boards in the dining room and clear out the builders mess underneath, PIR, and then board over.

I am thinking I can over board each room at a time in 5.5mm ply --- just to help with the draught sealing around the edges, but also give me a smooth surface to cast off of for the floor that goes on top (potentially LVT or something - who knows - am totally skint now :D).

Any thoughts?

 
Right chaps!

Getting a bit sick and tired of living/working in the building site, so I need to get a move on. The sparky is booked for 28th March, so that'll see consumer unit and porch outdoor sockets fitted.

I plan to lift the rest of the boards in the dining room and clear out the builders mess underneath, PIR, and then board over.

I am thinking I can over board each room at a time in 5.5mm ply --- just to help with the draught sealing around the edges, but also give me a smooth surface to cast off of for the floor that goes on top (potentially LVT or something - who knows - am totally skint now :D).

Any thoughts?

Whats it like living in a construction site?

The last time i experienced living in one i was like 13 years old when my parents bought a completely derelict place . Literally there was a hole on the floor from the top floor all the way down lol.

I have not moved into my place yet but close to getting at least two rooms liveable (gosh i need to do a update on my build log thread too!)
 
Whats it like living in a construction site?

The last time i experienced living in one i was like 13 years old when my parents bought a completely derelict place . Literally there was a hole on the floor from the top floor all the way down lol.

I have not moved into my place yet but close to getting at least two rooms liveable (gosh i need to do a update on my build log thread too!)
Haha, I don't mind it too much tbh. But I am imagining what a weekend would be like without this enormous list of jobs...

Best of luck - keen to see how you've progressed!
 
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