1936 house here, we bought it from a lady who had more or less done nothing to it since she bought it in 1977 and whilst it was cosmetically clean and tidy it was trapped in a time bubble. One of the bedrooms had a carpet in there that she said was there when she moved in and whilst it was spotless and looked brand new it was also bright (I cant emphasise this enough) orange. Being in the line of work that I am I had no option but to knock seven bells out of it. The house is set out in an L shape I’ve done so much to it I will no doubt forget some but;
Demolished GF porch canopy and built diagonal extension linking both “wings” forming GF porch and FF En-suite
Blocked existing kitchen door up and removed one of the 3 chimneys (centre of house) up to first floor ceiling level to form new open plan kitchen / dining room.
New kitchen
Removed every carpet in the entire house. At GF every floor has been insulated with quilt within a chicken wire mesh and over boarded with ply and then tiles with 600x600mm porcelanosa dark grey porcelain tiles. The lounge how ever has received 20mm hand scraped oak flooring
Excuse the wires, they have gone now
GF WC added to rear of kitchen area, this made the kitchen window epically over sized for what was left of the room so was replaced (render to outside made good)
Old balanced flue boiler replaced with WB Greenstar 40KW combi of win
50mm celotex insulation applied to every external wall, battened and boarded then skimmed, every ceiling has been over boarded as there were undulations in the old lath and plaster.
Skirtings/architraves/picture rails have been removed, they were in a bad way and some had, had plug sockets cut into them. We had a joinery shop take a profile off them and have replaced them with the same profile as they were 175mm high.
Socket back boxes and face plates replaced with new at new heights (away from the skirting) this was easy due to the dry lining.
Rear bay window off the dining room demolished to allow us to build a small single story inverted, single ply flat roof ( has 600mm overhanging eaves, I love flat roofs) with 3200mm sliding folding screen opening to the garden. This area has been tiles to match the dining room and kitchen space adjacent. Picture below shows it before it was rendered and roofed properly (you get the idea though)
Replaced the fireplace and surround to the lounge and built in bookshelves either side, filled in the bay window to form a deep cill.
Replaced every radiator in the house.
Reworked the staircase
Total replan of the FF to allow the bathroom and the WC to be housed in the same room, again every external wall insulated / battened and skimmed.
All FF rooms have had 20mm solid oak flooring
Created storage wall in the master and second bedroom with built in wardrobe.
Created some in built desks in the 3rd bedroom for my office without loosing its function as a bedroom
New bathroom suite.
Twin tanked boundary wall with piers and 1000mm planting troughs (planted with photenia red robin and built in place of very old and very rotten timber fence, extended garage to boundary making it a tandem garage with a swish Horman sectional insulated aluminium electric door. We built an external outhouse as well that links the boundary wall to the main house (needs a photo to explain it).
Front garden hard landscaped due to being destroyed when we added the new man hole and drain run from the new en-suite
I have lots more photos which I can add but wont unless people really want to see every thing. Unfortunately I don’t have that many from when we first moved it showing what it was like. I can upload plans though, again if anyone is interested.
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- Need new...everything. But I'm very pleased and proud of it.
