Neph’s new house…
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More action is underway now the settling in period has finished.
We have hired to excellent carpenters to change the weatherboards on all external walls. Marko from Estonia and Daniel from Romania are reliable, friendly, professional, effectiveand highly skilled, everything the previous shower of shite weren’t.
This is a critical part of the renovation, both because of the technical and aesthetic role the weatherboards play, but also because the return to 1940’s style board patterns requires no small skill from the carpenters, and is one of the major concerns for the council and royal antiquitarian who want all the houses on our block to do this. If it is done right and approved we will get a retrospective grant of up
to 15.000USD to cover part of the cost. The windows will also be changed as part of the work.
This section is finished… (bar the painting)
Meanwhile I’ve started in the cellar putting in some load bearing framing. These support a steel beam which holds up the house and also will form dividing walls between the man cave/bedroom, and man cave/bathroom. It was a scary job as it involved moving builder’s joists around and installing the 2x8 framing to a millimeter’s precision to ensure the beam was pressed into the floor above and didn’t sag (or drop the whole damn house on my head).
Next, the same job but in this doorway that we cut into the original external cellar wall.
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what a fuckin assache @neph93 . I hope it's getting close.
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@neph93 you are so good at estimating denim stretch and shrink in cotton fibers by now that I doubt a millimeter sag on a rigid steel beam poses any challenge!!
Excellent progress and look forward to pics when finished.
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@steelworker Yes and no… I generally enjoy this kind of work, although the cellar being all mine to fix is a little intimidating in terms of job size and required skill set.
@motojobobo ha
Well it is looking good so far. The challenge is maintaining the necessary attention to detail, and marrying that with competence. If one of those is lacking things normally go wrong.@ARNC have you ever played Skyrim? You can build a house with a cellar and decorate it with the spoils of war, and the stuffed corpses of your enemies…. it has taken on a new resonance
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The cellar is about 60 square meters and all the walls needed framing, dividing walls need to be built, the ceiling needs to be levelled, insulation and wiring put in, then all the finishing put up. It’s a big old job, but there is nothing to be done other than talent one bit at a time.
In that spirit, tonights effort:
An 80 year old window frame was holding up a two meter span of floor beam after the doorway was cut through the foundation. Everything is now supported andthe window removed. It is a bit rough and ready but it is doing the job. I’ll strengthen it all with steel fittings before it gets covered up. -
@neph93 I’m not really into games, it’s just that my sense of humour sometimes takes a turn to the dark side.
Mine too [emoji38] No happily I am rid of that lot with the exception of the inevitable exchange of lawyers letters. Good riddance to them. Happy to have found capable and honest people to assist.
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clean work @neph93 !!
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@neph93 I looked through your whole thread over the last few days. The project looks really great and should be fantastic when you are done. My house was build in the early 1800s, so I can sympathize with a lot of the challenges you have faced. I always joke around with my wife that any project I think is going to be easy usually takes at least four times the amount of time I thought it would.
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any project I think is going to be easy usually takes at least four times the amount of time I thought it would.
True story… and costs at least five times more!
Our windows arrive tomorrow and that will make a huge difference inside and out.
Oh yeah, it always costs more…way more! That's great about the windows, they always make a huge difference in a project once they go in.
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That's great about the windows, they always make a huge difference in a project once they go in.
Indeed. Doubly so in this case as we are changing the facade of two sides of the house back to how it originally was (or in the case of the extension, changing it to mimic that).
In addition, when we did the inside, we had the walls cut to match the new windows and have had to leave the other windows unfinished, so the interior has looked half finished since we moved in. All that should be fixed within the next few weeks.
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@neph93 How's the house coming, any new updates?
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@neph93 How's the house coming, any new updates?
It is going slow and steady. I’m currently performing support and supply for the two guys working on the facade/cladding. Basically clearing up crap, driving it to the dump and picking up new materials. No point taking pictures as the scaffold is hiding the new cladding and windows. I’ll update next week.
Me and my boys cleaned up the cellar ready for the next stage, but I’ll need to give it a few days with a building fan and de-humidifier to get some of the damp out of the walls.
It looks kind of cool when it is all tidy.
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Coming along nicely –-
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@neph93 How's the house coming, any new updates?
It is going slow and steady. I’m currently performing support and supply for the two guys working on the facade/cladding. Basically clearing up crap, driving it to the dump and picking up new materials. No point taking pictures as the scaffold is hiding the new cladding and windows. I’ll update next week.
Me and my boys cleaned up the cellar ready for the next stage, but I’ll need to give it a few days with a building fan and de-humidifier to get some of the damp out of the walls.
It looks kind of cool when it is all tidy.Looking good! And you’re moving in the right direction, that’s the most important part.
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Couple of milestones… the cladding on the biggest wall is finished and the new windows installed.
I celebrated by doing the interior of the first window. This price of timber is insane at the moment so what your looking at added about 200USD to the price of 800USD windows. I measured everything nine times [emoji1]
