| Home improvements 08:54 - Oct 22 with 2030 views | RobTheMonk |
What does everyone have on the go at the moment?
We've just had a new gravel driveway put in with a gate added at the front of the house to keep the dog and kids from escaping. We're really happy with how it looks and it's stopped our garage flooding which is a big bonus! Also had the patio in the garden done at the same time as the old one was there before we moved in and had been a proper bodge job.
Next on the list is going into the loft space of our bungalow. In the planning permission stage at the moment. We'd like to put one big bedroom, one small double and a bathroom up there. Has anyone done similar? Looking to have two dormers put on. Fully detached and easy access all round. [Post edited 22 Oct 2024 9:20]
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| Home improvements on 09:05 - Oct 22 with 1970 views | textbackup |
Hall stairs and landing.
Mahogany staircase has been clad in oak, 10 new oak doors (which got oiled over the weekend) couple of cupboards built for storage.
Once complete that’s the house done… and yes, she’s on rightmove daily already!
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Ours is a chalet bungalow so already converted when we moved in. So can’t help in that regard sorry |  |
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| Home improvements on 09:11 - Oct 22 with 1950 views | lowhouseblue |
i have planning permission for a small single storey extension which i am (once the spring comes) going to build with poured hempcrete. i've always wanted to experiment with hempcrete - it seems in principle to be such a great material - so this is my chance to be hands on with it. hands on in the sense of gloves because of the lime. |  |
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| Home improvements on 10:09 - Oct 22 with 1810 views | _clive_baker_ |
Mine was a doer upper when we bought it, nothing too significant structurally but decoratively every room was a right state and barely habitable. Finished the downstairs now, kitchen was the biggest job but did that first. This year done 3 bedrooms, bathroom and en-suite upstairs. Got 2 bedrooms to go but not in any real hurry for those. Have had lots of windows repaired and 2 replaced, work on the roof to fix some leaks & some re-rendering in parts before decorating all of the outside which is done now.
2025 will be a year for the garden which is a complete state, so once Spring comes that'll be the focus.
Taken a bit longer than we would've hoped but have tried to do it without taking additional debt because of the interest rates, so been a case of funding it through earnings and with little ones life gets in the way (and expensive).
Mrs will be on Rightmove when its done looking for something else but I'll put my foot down, rather just stay put and enjoy it once its finished instead of spunking money on SDLT and fees. |  | | |
| Home improvements on 14:16 - Oct 22 with 1631 views | RobTheMonk |
| Home improvements on 10:09 - Oct 22 by _clive_baker_ |
Mine was a doer upper when we bought it, nothing too significant structurally but decoratively every room was a right state and barely habitable. Finished the downstairs now, kitchen was the biggest job but did that first. This year done 3 bedrooms, bathroom and en-suite upstairs. Got 2 bedrooms to go but not in any real hurry for those. Have had lots of windows repaired and 2 replaced, work on the roof to fix some leaks & some re-rendering in parts before decorating all of the outside which is done now.
2025 will be a year for the garden which is a complete state, so once Spring comes that'll be the focus.
Taken a bit longer than we would've hoped but have tried to do it without taking additional debt because of the interest rates, so been a case of funding it through earnings and with little ones life gets in the way (and expensive).
Mrs will be on Rightmove when its done looking for something else but I'll put my foot down, rather just stay put and enjoy it once its finished instead of spunking money on SDLT and fees. |
Ours was a doer upper too. It was very unloved. We've had the place rewired, new bathroom and did the majority of the redecoration ourselves. Madge has done lots in the garden too.
There's loads still to do, especially with two toddlers.
We love where we live which is why we're looking at going into the roof space.
Then on the list we have new flooring, new kitchen and partitioning some of the garage to be an office space.
We'll have to see how much we have left after the loft conversion eeek. | | | |
| Home improvements on 16:33 - Oct 22 with 1534 views | TheBlueGnu |
I've just completed a little annex so I can invite Don Warrington and Adam Woodyatt to stay and partake in a game of billiards. |  |
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| Home improvements on 19:49 - Oct 22 with 1462 views | EdwardStone |
| Home improvements on 09:11 - Oct 22 by lowhouseblue |
i have planning permission for a small single storey extension which i am (once the spring comes) going to build with poured hempcrete. i've always wanted to experiment with hempcrete - it seems in principle to be such a great material - so this is my chance to be hands on with it. hands on in the sense of gloves because of the lime. |
I have built a couple of places out of Hempcrete.... it is really quite challenging to work with
We used some French "crete" lime dust, it seemed very caustic compared to hydraulic or hydrated lime.... it ring-barked my labourers wrists just at the top of his gloves. Severe lime burns that left some scars that didn't fade for more than a few years. All the worse because he is my Nephew..... Sister was very unimpressed.
The lime was very fine particle, went straight through an ordinary cheap dust mask
A quick trip to the PPE shop, mutiple pairs of very very long rubber gauntlets....make you look like a vrt about to help a troubled cow give birth.... there are also a kind of over-sleeve that covers the gap at the top of the gauntlets
And the best quality dust masks.... not exactly NBC Repirators, but certainly FFP3 (?) or better for disposables
Are you using the Hempcrete for infill in a timber frame or as weight-bearing?
Good Luck [Post edited 22 Oct 2024 20:08]
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| Home improvements on 20:55 - Oct 22 with 1391 views | MattinLondon |
I’ve very recently deep cleaned the carpets - does that count?
Very satisfying to do, but having sen what was sucked up I do think that ignorance can be bliss. |  | | |
| Home improvements on 21:19 - Oct 22 with 1345 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Just in the middle of getting French Doors put in, next up is knocking down an internal wall to open up the kitchen and diner a little and have a new kitchen put in. |  |
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| Home improvements on 21:19 - Oct 22 with 1348 views | textbackup |
| Home improvements on 14:16 - Oct 22 by RobTheMonk |
Ours was a doer upper too. It was very unloved. We've had the place rewired, new bathroom and did the majority of the redecoration ourselves. Madge has done lots in the garden too.
There's loads still to do, especially with two toddlers.
We love where we live which is why we're looking at going into the roof space.
Then on the list we have new flooring, new kitchen and partitioning some of the garage to be an office space.
We'll have to see how much we have left after the loft conversion eeek. |
Me and the wife were looking at old photos the other day. We purchased an old pub (the Rushmere falcon, Playford Road if you know it)
Anyway, that was an absolute state. Years of landlords papering over paper, an out building with the old kitchen in, just a mess!
We brought that with a 3 year old, and a 1 year old… we both said looking back ‘WTF were we thinking!’ It had no heating!!
And some of the photos! We went a few weeks with no banisters… wires clipped to the wall keeping them out of the kids reach.
Obviously glad we done it now (as made a few quid) but unsure how that didn’t finish me off! Working shifts and doing up and house, with a young family 😂 | |
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| Home improvements on 21:58 - Oct 22 with 1283 views | bazza |
| Home improvements on 21:19 - Oct 22 by textbackup |
Me and the wife were looking at old photos the other day. We purchased an old pub (the Rushmere falcon, Playford Road if you know it)
Anyway, that was an absolute state. Years of landlords papering over paper, an out building with the old kitchen in, just a mess!
We brought that with a 3 year old, and a 1 year old… we both said looking back ‘WTF were we thinking!’ It had no heating!!
And some of the photos! We went a few weeks with no banisters… wires clipped to the wall keeping them out of the kids reach.
Obviously glad we done it now (as made a few quid) but unsure how that didn’t finish me off! Working shifts and doing up and house, with a young family 😂 |
That got split in to a few cottage type of houses didn’t it? I remember playing darts in there one night, probably late nineties.. |  | | |
| Home improvements on 22:17 - Oct 22 with 1247 views | lowhouseblue |
| Home improvements on 19:49 - Oct 22 by EdwardStone |
I have built a couple of places out of Hempcrete.... it is really quite challenging to work with
We used some French "crete" lime dust, it seemed very caustic compared to hydraulic or hydrated lime.... it ring-barked my labourers wrists just at the top of his gloves. Severe lime burns that left some scars that didn't fade for more than a few years. All the worse because he is my Nephew..... Sister was very unimpressed.
The lime was very fine particle, went straight through an ordinary cheap dust mask
A quick trip to the PPE shop, mutiple pairs of very very long rubber gauntlets....make you look like a vrt about to help a troubled cow give birth.... there are also a kind of over-sleeve that covers the gap at the top of the gauntlets
And the best quality dust masks.... not exactly NBC Repirators, but certainly FFP3 (?) or better for disposables
Are you using the Hempcrete for infill in a timber frame or as weight-bearing?
Good Luck [Post edited 22 Oct 2024 20:08]
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that's really helpful thanks. I knew that the lime would require care but I'll plan to double up on ppe. it's only a small project and I'll experiment to get a safe system going. there's no rush.
the hempcrete won't be at all weight-bearing - it's just packed around a timber frame. the frame abuts against the existing building. so the actual volume of hempcrete isn't that great. | |
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| Home improvements on 23:28 - Oct 22 with 1178 views | Churchman |
At my house, looking to replace all of the radiators, rehang the front door, re-do the porch, paint the whole house (someone else not me).
At the Suffolk house, probate should be granted in the next three months. In the meantime and for the foreseeable it’s painting and tidying (me). The bath needs replacing, gutters, soffits etc to be replaced to maintain the house before my sister and I decide what next with it. All good. |  | | |
| Home improvements on 04:28 - Oct 23 with 1100 views | Benters |
| Home improvements on 21:19 - Oct 22 by textbackup |
Me and the wife were looking at old photos the other day. We purchased an old pub (the Rushmere falcon, Playford Road if you know it)
Anyway, that was an absolute state. Years of landlords papering over paper, an out building with the old kitchen in, just a mess!
We brought that with a 3 year old, and a 1 year old… we both said looking back ‘WTF were we thinking!’ It had no heating!!
And some of the photos! We went a few weeks with no banisters… wires clipped to the wall keeping them out of the kids reach.
Obviously glad we done it now (as made a few quid) but unsure how that didn’t finish me off! Working shifts and doing up and house, with a young family 😂 |
That sounds really interesting,I wouldn’t mind living in an old pub,I guess it has a cellar ? |  |
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| Home improvements on 04:33 - Oct 23 with 1098 views | Benters |
We are having a new en suite put in.
Amazing to think I started stripping it out it must be 12 or so years ago,then I got Ill 😷 and couldn’t work for a number of years.So money became tight and we had to use what funds we had to pay the mortgage.
Still it’s being put back in late November hopefully 😉. | |
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| Home improvements on 04:56 - Oct 23 with 1084 views | Benters |
| Home improvements on 19:49 - Oct 22 by EdwardStone |
I have built a couple of places out of Hempcrete.... it is really quite challenging to work with
We used some French "crete" lime dust, it seemed very caustic compared to hydraulic or hydrated lime.... it ring-barked my labourers wrists just at the top of his gloves. Severe lime burns that left some scars that didn't fade for more than a few years. All the worse because he is my Nephew..... Sister was very unimpressed.
The lime was very fine particle, went straight through an ordinary cheap dust mask
A quick trip to the PPE shop, mutiple pairs of very very long rubber gauntlets....make you look like a vrt about to help a troubled cow give birth.... there are also a kind of over-sleeve that covers the gap at the top of the gauntlets
And the best quality dust masks.... not exactly NBC Repirators, but certainly FFP3 (?) or better for disposables
Are you using the Hempcrete for infill in a timber frame or as weight-bearing?
Good Luck [Post edited 22 Oct 2024 20:08]
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Many moons ago when I was a hod carrier we were building warehouses for people like B&Q with red bricks on the outside and white bricks on the inside.
Lime mortar was being used for the brickwork and we used cement mixers back then,you used to get splashed by the lime occasionally and had to wash it off instantly otherwise like you said it burns,some went in my eye I’d never felt pain like it,they took me straight to the Hospital to wash it out thankfully. [Post edited 23 Oct 2024 5:54]
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| Home improvements on 08:22 - Oct 23 with 948 views | textbackup |
| Home improvements on 21:58 - Oct 22 by bazza |
That got split in to a few cottage type of houses didn’t it? I remember playing darts in there one night, probably late nineties.. |
Split into 3.
The couple that purchased it did the initial split, a 2 bed bungalow with the car park, 4 bed mid terrace, then a 2 bed terrace.
The 4 bed terrace was gifted to their son, who then wanted to move to the US, so sold it. And that what we brought.
And no Benters, the cellar has been filled in prior to us getting it, unfortunately. | |
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| Home improvements on 09:14 - Oct 23 with 857 views | EdwardStone |
| Home improvements on 04:56 - Oct 23 by Benters |
Many moons ago when I was a hod carrier we were building warehouses for people like B&Q with red bricks on the outside and white bricks on the inside.
Lime mortar was being used for the brickwork and we used cement mixers back then,you used to get splashed by the lime occasionally and had to wash it off instantly otherwise like you said it burns,some went in my eye I’d never felt pain like it,they took me straight to the Hospital to wash it out thankfully. [Post edited 23 Oct 2024 5:54]
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Lime eye is painful, I have had it happen once and it didn't half smart......as you say, quick action is the best
I had to have skin grafts from kneeling on some damp concrete many moons ago, my own stupid fault, my knees looked like grilled cheese on toast.
Normal bag lime is bad.... but the hempcrete binder is evil
Take care builders and DiY ers, it's a dangerous World | | | |
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