My apartment Project log

DirtyJester · 28 Oct 2012 at 17:00

Nevermind all that, what you call the puppy

Oh and good luck with everything else

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Oct 2012 at 17:01

Dr House said:
I am finding its very difficult here and can seem my self being quite unhappy if I end up back here long term. I really want to go to Australia as I think we would have a better life there. My wife would make £150 to £200k on top of what ever I earn. On that sort of money we could have am amazing lifestyle.

man! nnice.

Rotty · 28 Oct 2012 at 17:11

Dr House said:
I am finding its very difficult here and can seem my self being quite unhappy if I end up back here long term..

Give you 30 grand when it's done

ReekiTiki · 28 Oct 2012 at 17:28

this is very cool

GinG · 28 Oct 2012 at 19:06

Looking Awesome...but a 330l tank and the bath holds 440l, could you not have got a bigger cylinder??

Dr House · 28 Oct 2012 at 19:38

DirtyJester said:
Nevermind all that, what you call the puppy

Oh and good luck with everything else

Barney, he is a havanese!

Rotty said:
Give you 30 grand when it's done

That would not cover the cost of the kitchen.

GinG said:
Looking Awesome...but a 330l tank and the bath holds 440l, could you not have got a bigger cylinder??

well the 330l tank holds water at 60'C, so you mix it with cold water when you fill the bath. Also the boiler will heat 14 to 15 L/min so the boiler is refilling the cylinder almost as fast as you are filling the bath.

mikeh501 · 28 Oct 2012 at 22:15

Nice build. I think those sloping ceilings would annoy me, but your fully loading up with toys to offset lol.

Are those cable runs going to be properly tidied up before the floor boards are put back down? My cable OCD would kick in big style.

Strife212 · 28 Oct 2012 at 22:20

Maybe I'm missing something but doing this seems madness if you don't want to live in the UK, you're never going to recoup the cost of all this work?

Dr House · 29 Oct 2012 at 11:14

mikeh501 said:
Nice build. I think those sloping ceilings would annoy me, but your fully loading up with toys to offset lol.

Are those cable runs going to be properly tidied up before the floor boards are put back down? My cable OCD would kick in big style.

Yes they have been tidied up now.

Strife212 said:
Maybe I'm missing something but doing this seems madness if you don't want to live in the UK, you're never going to recoup the cost of all this work?

Well when we started the project the idea is that it was going to be our long term home. We should make back everything I spent on the project as I got the space for very little. I have put in top end stuff but I got really good deals on everything.

vandiesel · 29 Oct 2012 at 13:31

What is going on to the celotex? I am wondering how you are going to fix the gyproc

cheers

GinG · 29 Oct 2012 at 13:39

Dr House said:
well the 330l tank holds water at 60'C, so you mix it with cold water when you fill the bath. Also the boiler will heat 14 to 15 L/min so the boiler is refilling the cylinder almost as fast as you are filling the bath.

Ah yeah I never thought of that! :cool:

anything I don't mind · 29 Oct 2012 at 13:54

Looks like it is going to be a realy nice place. But what is a dressing room and I think it might have been better having the lounge by the balcony, although would not have made that much difference.

Rotty · 29 Oct 2012 at 15:31

Dr House said:
That would not cover the cost of the kitchen.

market is bad round here mate

Dr House · 29 Oct 2012 at 17:41

Rotty said:
market is bad round here mate

haha I hear the market for Supercharged V8 engines is quit bad so with that in mind hows £10k sound for the jag?

vandiesel said:
What is going on to the celotex? I am wondering how you are going to fix the gyproc

cheers

I will install a Lafarge plaster grid system.

groen said:
Looks like it is going to be a realy nice place. But what is a dressing room and I think it might have been better having the lounge by the balcony, although would not have made that much difference.

Its a room to get dressed in lol, we will probably use it as a study or baby room. .

Dr House · 13 Mar 2013 at 18:54

Right we are moving again.

The central vacuums system has been installed in every room.

http://www.nutone.com/products/product/6aa4aec5-ca9f-470d-aaef-933d516aef2e

This thing really sucks!!! it has a 5hp motor in it which produces about 1000 air watts, a Dyson has about 250.

We had to put up a bit of stud work due to the idiots that installed the sprinkler pipes.

Joiners at work here in the study

We have insulated the roof with 100mm celotex between the rafters and then 20mm celotex over the top. We had to fix a small damp issue here.
The joiners have done really amazing work.

This is the Kitchen

We have dot and dab'ed 15mm Sound Block plaster board onto the walls. in total we ordered 7000kg of plaster board which was a nightmare to get into the flat.

I was not happy with the job the plasterers did, they worked really slowly so they have all been fired (they did the dot and dab above). It 4 of them to 7 days to plaster 3 rooms and put a little dot and dab up.

Kitchen plastered

bed 4 plastered

Bedroom 3 plastered

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Mar 2013 at 19:23

coming on nice! indeed.

Glaucus · 13 Mar 2013 at 19:26

Indeed, looking fantastic.

Dr House · 13 Mar 2013 at 19:26

Yep its really moving.

Next week all the waste pipes are going in, plastering should be finished in 2 to 3 weeks.

Then the floors will go in along with the UFH.

We finally ordered our kitchen which ended up being 20k over budget but its a REALLY nice kitchen. We had to drop the steam room to help pay for the kitchen.

Glaucus · 13 Mar 2013 at 19:28

Kitchens more important. Looking forward to that update, most important room in the house and never done correctly outside of self builds, even then most of the time people **** it up.

Dr House · 13 Mar 2013 at 20:03

Glaucus said:
Kitchens more important. Looking forward to that update, most important room in the house and never done correctly outside of self builds, even then most of the time people **** it up.

The kitchen is so well planned it just cant go wrong. We have 3 ovens (miele) which will be floating half way out of the wall (Microwave combi oven, Steam Combi oven, Normal oven) and 2 warming drawers.

Gaggenau full surface induction hob (I have wet dreams about this thing lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYeJiKqg6aA

Gaggenau ceiling extractor hood which can suck 1800m3 per hour

http://formul.ru/_CATALOG_FILES/pro...genau AC 402-180--197931-ac_402-180.83344.jpg