My apartment Project log

Dr House · 22 May 2013 at 18:49

A little more progress, its going very slowly but its moving.

wetroom floors have arrived, they are cement imprignateg with a polymer.

Wetroom boards have arrived also.

Most areas have now had plasterboards put up, we still have the living room walls to do but it should be finished by the middle of next week.
(Hallway)

The stud work in the living room is on its way up now

You can see the rear speaker boxes

We have also installed the frame for the kitchen all units. This has taken the best part of 3 to 4 days as there was a lot of work involved. The 2 boxes at the top will have LED strip lights in them they should appear as if they are floating 2 or 3 inches under the ceiling.

RedMogg · 23 May 2013 at 10:20

Excited for you - give us a shout if you decide you don't want to live in it

Hope everything goes smoothly from here on in!

Tummy · 30 May 2013 at 21:43

Any updates?

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Dr House · 12 Jun 2013 at 20:53

Tummy said:
Any updates? .

Here you go

The living room has all been plasterboarded now:

Dining room side

Living room side

Now the exiting bit, the home cinema:

Speaker back boxes with dynamat sound insulation

Then some rockwool insulation

Speakers installed (+ 2 subs woofers)

I plan to put the TV on a motorised arm so that it can come out and tilt but it will be flush with the wall when retracted.

Rear speakers

Hole for extractor hood:

It will look like this when installed
http://formul.ru/_CATALOG_FILES/pro...genau AC 402-180--197931-ac_402-180.83344.jpg

Ovens installed floating 30cm out of the wall.

From the left, combi steam oven, large oven, Combi microwave oven and 2 warming drawers on each end.

We are now boarding all the bathrooms, I will post photos in about 2 weeks as I am going away on a business trip.

Dr House · 12 Jun 2013 at 21:01

These are the speakers we have installed
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/au...stealth-acoustics-lr-series-7-2-908849/review

http://stealthacoustics.com/products/invisible-speakers/

At lot of time and effort has gone into installing them, I think the total outlay is over £7k because we had to build the walls forward but I just love the idea of stealth speakers.

Dr House · 14 Jun 2013 at 18:49

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UFH parts arrived.
620m2 of 8mm thick felt and 30mm thick EPS

Dr House · 27 Jun 2013 at 21:26

We have progress.

we have put down 8mm felt

EPS on top of the felt

aluminium plates being installed

RedMogg · 28 Jun 2013 at 01:44

Wow - pushing on! Any closer to knowing a moving in date? The excitement must be getting unbearable now!

Dr House · 28 Jun 2013 at 08:16

We expect in september but something has come up with work and I have to go away for a few business trips tomorrow morning, I expect to be back in about 3 weeks so its going to slow stuff down.

Also my wife was just offered a job in Australia so we are thinking long and hard about moving out there. She is not keen at all but I REALLY want to go.

Azza · 30 Jun 2013 at 18:34

Updates!!!!

Good positioning of the ovens etc such a pain having to bend or crouch down to get things out of ones that are low down. Slowly but surely looks like it's coming along nicely!

If you go to Australia I'll look after the place for you.

Dr House · 30 Jun 2013 at 21:10

Azza said:
Updates!!!! Good positioning of the ovens etc such a pain having to bend or crouch down to get things out of ones that are low down. Slowly but surely looks like it's coming along nicely!

If you go to Australia I'll look after the place for you.

There will be no more updates for 3 weeks now as one of my clients had a little problem and I had to jump on a flight to India.

There is still work going on while I am away, by the time I get back all the UFH should be down and the screeboard on top of it.

Then we just have to paint, fit the doors, tile and fit the bathrooms / kitchen.

Locke · 22 Sep 2013 at 22:07

This must be close to finishing!

djbenjo · 17 Oct 2013 at 20:05

Any updates, me and the Mrs are loving this

Dr House · 24 Dec 2013 at 22:57

Sorry I have been quite for some time since my last update. Lots has happened. I won a court case against my electrician, I nearly moved to america but that did not happen in the end. My wife finally became a GP. The flat worked slowed down a lot as I have not been in the uk much.

I dont have many photos on my phone but here are a few. I will post more in the new year.

Speakers have been plastered into the walls

A lot of sending later

Paint going on. We sent throughout close to 1000l of pain in the end.
We used this paint coloured to a F&b colour
http://www.johnstonestrade.com/endura.aspx
Its supposed to be scrubbable but still give a very flat matt colour. The only problem is that its VERY expensive.

Paint is still wet on the speaker

Any now invisible

Painting the kitchen

We have also started to put the floors down

Kitchen

Again we had massive problems with the floor. First there was way too much movement in the floor so I had to use a super expensive flexible adhesive.

Then I was using some super duper invisible grout which turned out to dry white so I had to take it out and start again.

It appears that the tiles I bought are also not as flat as they should be and the floors are also not flat so I had to out down lots of self levelling compound.

Dr House · 10 Jun 2014 at 18:08

Hi All

I dont know if anyone is still interested. I have been out of the country a lot so not managed to move stuff forward as fast as we wanted. It ended up getting a little more expensive then we expected also.

We have ordered some of the furniture now.
This bed is going in our master bedroom, its going to be custom made to take a 2.4m x 2.4m mattress in walnut.
http://www.visualcomfort.co.uk

We have ordered this for bedroom 4
http://www.tvbed.com/products/the-los-angeles/

Its not the best looking but but its good quality, real leather and functional.

Dining chairs have been ordered from Australia so should be with us in around 12 weeks. The sofa we are going to order form Italy so again it will be here in around 10 weeks. They are coming from a small company but again it seems to be good quality and very bespoke
http://www.gammarr.com/collezioni-en/gamma-en/

So some photos
Kitchen

You can see the extractor hood in this one, it can suck a massive 1980cm3 of air per hour.
http://i872.photobucket.com/albums/ab283/nastytooth/The flat Half done/DSC_0332_zps627c2362.jpg

The living room / dining room.
Ceiling is 5.5m high, you can get an idea form this photo.

There are speakers in the walls

Dr House · 10 Jun 2014 at 18:17

Bedroom 1

You can't really tell from the photo but the mattress is huge, that is a 2 seater Ikea sofa next to it.

Bath 1

Bedroom 2

Bathroom 2
very cool WC, it washes your A**

The bath will go on this wall

Entrance from the lift, there will be a security door there

Hall way,

The wall has been tiled with a very nice 3D tile.

Bedroom 4

Bathroom 4

Dr House · 10 Jun 2014 at 18:20

WC with stone basin form China.

Bath 3

Bed 3

MonsterMoshi · 10 Jun 2014 at 20:23

Absolutely gorgeous but that bum cleaning toilet is just wrong!

Tummy · 10 Jun 2014 at 20:25

Gorgeous.

Dr House · 11 Jun 2014 at 00:24

MonsterMoshi said:
Absolutely gorgeous but that bum cleaning toilet is just wrong!

Lol its quite nice to have.

We have ordered this for the other bathrooms,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmoz3xYKkWA

It will wash and dry your rear end.