Victorian renovation build log

[MassiveJim]

having just insulated my loft myself I would agree with above abouut not bothering battening the joists out, far easier to go over the top of them.
I followed a guide from "the restoration couple" on Youtube where he used extra long screws with tile backerboard washers to hold the insulation on.
If I started again I would use battens instead, simply because it was difficult to find drywall screws long enough to go through the plasterboard and insulation and also the plasterboard doesn't always fall in a convenient place where there is a joist to screw in to, using battens on top of the insulation would have given me that, and made it easier to plasterboard overall.

It wasn't the end of the world, just how I would do it differently If I started again.

 

[eviled]

been a while since I updated this.

Lost momentum, ended up having lots of trouble with tradesman, and doing lots of the work myself whilst working a full time job

oh and this happened

 

[Martynt74]

Wow congrats fella.

It’s actually quite scary to look at the time of the last posts and realise just how long ago it was!

 

[eviled]

another delivery

sound board, insulated plaster board and rockwool sound insulation

I'll try and bring this up to date!

 

[eviled]

Chipboard floor going down and the roof being cross battened to take 75mm Celotex

 

[eviled]

Sun tunnel reflector pipe in

and into the 1st floor landing

that's the ceiling btw, stupid blurry rotated photo

 

[eviled]

and framed and wrapped in insulation

any voids created have been filled with loft roll

 

[topgun06]

I love a good build log! Nice work.

 

[SimonR]

Thank you for sharing

 

[eviled]

Every void filled!!

All the external walls studded and had 75mm celotex inbetween

 

[eviled]

all internal walls filled with rockwool and boarded with 12.5mm soundstop plaster baord

 

[eviled]

getting boarded out, there so much insulation that all that's needed is that Acova triple column radiator in the bedroom (700w)
weird angle dwarf wall was to allow a slightly lower floor in that half of the bedroom whilst keeping the original beam on show.
The beam above the window is about 180cm (I'm 177cm!)

The view into the new bathroom, floor isn't down in there as the space ended up bigger than I expect so need to re-do the design to make the best use of the space.
The joists are doubled up and using 18mm t&g chipboard that will have a top layer of ply, it will need to take a lot of tiles and a rather large bath.

 

[topgun06]

The joists are doubled up and using 18mm t&g chipboard that will have a top layer of ply, it will need to take a lot of tiles and a rather large bath.

Have you considered something like HardieBacker or No More Ply for the floor instead?

 

[eviled]

yep, was more expensive and didn't need to save on thickness so didn't see the point

 

[eviled]

while the joiners were doing their thing, I had been hard at work laying a patio, same limestone as the kitchen in the same herringbione pattern

 

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[eviled]

time for a glass of wine and to get on designing the bathroom

 

[eviled]

Front and back of the house has original sash windows that have had the boxes double glazed and rehung. The gable side of the house is north facing and very cold so I opted to remove the sashes and fit new hard wood windows with thick high performance double glazing

One for the 1st floor bathroom

And one for the attic.

Also got one in the downstairs bathroom.

 

[eviled]

plasterer was slowed by my plumbing efforts - slow but 10x better than the disaster plumber I had in

 

[eviled]

The original beams were too nice to hide so the I gave them a quick rub down and couple of coats of Osmo poly oil, the hope was doing this before plastering would make them easier to clean afterwards
The photo doesn't do it justice really.