Farrow and Ball - Blue Green (mixed by Johnstone’s)
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Farrow and Ball - Blue Green (mixed by Johnstone’s)
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Looks fantastic, well done so far.
Can't help but feel a bit sad, we're in the process of buying a Victorian house very similar looking to yours, also in need a serious modernisation but found out today via surveyor that it's got some Japanese Knotweed at the back of the garden and as much as we love it, may have to pull out - Nasty stuff!
Keep up the good work
Can't help but feel a bit sad, we're in the process of buying a Victorian house very similar looking to yours, also in need a serious modernisation but found out today via surveyor that it's got some Japanese Knotweed at the back of the garden and as much as we love it, may have to pull out - Nasty stuff!
Keep up the good work
Soldato
Looks fantastic, well done so far.
Can't help but feel a bit sad, we're in the process of buying a Victorian house very similar looking to yours, also in need a serious modernisation but found out today via surveyor that it's got some Japanese Knotweed at the back of the garden and as much as we love it, may have to pull out - Nasty stuff!
Keep up the good work
Jap knotweed can be a deal breaker. I heard some companies wont lend on a house that has it in the garden unless it has a management type plan for the stuff.
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Sadly, this is one of them, our lender rejected our mortgage today after seeing the valuation. They want a JKW surveyor in before going any further.
Biggest issue is the JKW is on next doors fence and coming through. Makes things very difficult and I think we've been scared away from it. Real shame as we fell in love with it, it's perfect otherwise, about £1k in fee's down too.
Back to square one!
another baby on the way so another bedroom needed!
This room was in a right state, water damage, blown plaster, missing fire place. The idea was to strip it to brick keeping the cornice and original architraves and experiment with thin internal insulation while trying to keep original features.
If successful I will continue this method through the other parts of the house to maintain originality while making it more comfortable and eco-friendly
Internal wall fell apart on stripping wallpaper, so is re-boarded with sound board and filled with acoustic insulation (keeping the original cornice)
External wall have been insulated with 15mm PIR backed board.
boards are vapour membrane backed and held on by a continuous bead on non-permerable adhesive foam with 1-3 mechanical fixings depending on size and what they may potentially be supporting.
I've had hygrometers buried in various places and not noticed any difference to ambient readings
staff bead at the top to accommodate the thicker walls into cornice, window frame was also spaced out 15mm.
This is the thickness of the boards, the difference is largest here due to the original door casing being sunk in the original plaster.
First impressions of the difference are pretty impressive - despite the cornice acting as a thermal bridge - the room gets nice and warm and stays warm.
original U-value for walls was 2.1 and is now 0.7 (from memory) which isn't bad for 15mm loss of floor space and some joinery touches.
This room was in a right state, water damage, blown plaster, missing fire place. The idea was to strip it to brick keeping the cornice and original architraves and experiment with thin internal insulation while trying to keep original features.
If successful I will continue this method through the other parts of the house to maintain originality while making it more comfortable and eco-friendly
Internal wall fell apart on stripping wallpaper, so is re-boarded with sound board and filled with acoustic insulation (keeping the original cornice)
External wall have been insulated with 15mm PIR backed board.
boards are vapour membrane backed and held on by a continuous bead on non-permerable adhesive foam with 1-3 mechanical fixings depending on size and what they may potentially be supporting.
I've had hygrometers buried in various places and not noticed any difference to ambient readings
staff bead at the top to accommodate the thicker walls into cornice, window frame was also spaced out 15mm.
This is the thickness of the boards, the difference is largest here due to the original door casing being sunk in the original plaster.
First impressions of the difference are pretty impressive - despite the cornice acting as a thermal bridge - the room gets nice and warm and stays warm.
original U-value for walls was 2.1 and is now 0.7 (from memory) which isn't bad for 15mm loss of floor space and some joinery touches.
Soldato
Nice
the little white door in the bedroom leads to a 2.3x2.4m square room, the 2nd storey to the downstairs outrigger.
Very cold room but with plumbing, nowhere to have a soil stack exit however, but no bother as there is a separate toilet room right next to this bedroom.
Anyway only one this to do - turn into into an en-suite - bathroom number 4
The furtherest external wall was stripped back to brick and the same 17.5mm insulated plasterboard, the other 2 external walls were studded and insulated with 50mm PIR.
shower area boarded with aqua board
ceiling too a fair bit of work to insulated around the window, the roof pitch actually finished on top of the window frame and there was no insulation at all, which explains why it was so cold!
Ignore all the different types of board, the offcuts all got used up!
Plan is to tile the bottom half in marble, with clay handmade encaustic tiles on the floor. Top half will be green with a brass pineapple chandelier
These are the tiles including a marble skirting board and dado rail
Very cold room but with plumbing, nowhere to have a soil stack exit however, but no bother as there is a separate toilet room right next to this bedroom.
Anyway only one this to do - turn into into an en-suite - bathroom number 4
The furtherest external wall was stripped back to brick and the same 17.5mm insulated plasterboard, the other 2 external walls were studded and insulated with 50mm PIR.
shower area boarded with aqua board
ceiling too a fair bit of work to insulated around the window, the roof pitch actually finished on top of the window frame and there was no insulation at all, which explains why it was so cold!
Ignore all the different types of board, the offcuts all got used up!
Plan is to tile the bottom half in marble, with clay handmade encaustic tiles on the floor. Top half will be green with a brass pineapple chandelier
These are the tiles including a marble skirting board and dado rail
Soldato
Ceiling looks horrible what’s with the step?
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Soldato
We are doing our house up right now, I bleeding cash rapidly and can only imagine how much you must be going through ! lol.
I don't like to add everything up too accurately
about £75k in so far, budget for whole project is 100Tiler booked in for a few weeks time, so while waiting and the weather is good I thought I would remove 5 old crappy 1970s radiators (much to the delight of an 8 month pregnant wife)
They are being replaced with 3 modern cast radiators and 2 huge 4 column Victorian radiators which I've get to build, both are 20+ sections!
They are being replaced with 3 modern cast radiators and 2 huge 4 column Victorian radiators which I've get to build, both are 20+ sections!
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Oh please more dirty talk.
On a separate note the earlier pictures of the paint used were really top dollar and given some inspiration seeing it overall. Enjoying this thread.
I'm loving your work but your pic links are broken.Tiler booked in for a few weeks time, so while waiting and the weather is good I thought I would remove 5 old crappy 1970s radiators (much to the delight of an 8 month pregnant wife)
They are being replaced with 3 modern cast radiators and 2 huge 4 column Victorian radiators which I've get to build, both are 20+ sections!
Soldato
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Its not me its you mate.