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    Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House

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    • AnesthetistA
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      @steelworker:

      @Anesthetist:

      Some new adds, a 50’s Florence Knoll credenza and a late 60’s/early 70’s Verner Panton panel. Just bout done here…

      Trippy

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      great look @Anesthetist love the Knoll

      Thanks man, took a while to find the old stuff at a reasonable price but it all came together

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      • GilesG
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        Gauged arches arrive…..

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          Yeah and the Party finally goes on  😉

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          • GilesG
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            Our extension is in there somewhere  🙂

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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            • DionD
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              New drone for Sam to play with?

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              • ChrisC
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                I found it!

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                • GilesG
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                  No.  The 3 blocks of houses at the bottom of the pic are being built by our next door neighbour.  He bought the land and built on it.  He did this to control what was built on the land and not devalue his own property (his house is middle top), so we have benefitted at no risk to ourselves.  He did ask us if we wanted to invest in the scheme, we declined as we had other stuff going on at the time.  Shame, because he has sold 10 of the 13 properties already at well over what his business plan assumed…

                  Anyway, he took the photo as part of his marketing strategy.

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                  • GilesG
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                    Gauged arches go in and a few more courses laid.  Next job, the roof joists and the inner roof, that'll be late next week…..

                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                    • hajdukH
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                      Very nice job made with the bricks!

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                      "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have" James Baldwin.

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                      • ROmanR
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                        It's looking great. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.

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                        • mclaincauseyM
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                          Man I know dick about masonry but that is beautiful and seems like it would be really hard.

                          Think it, be it.

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                          • Matty123M
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                            Really hard on the wallet  😉 those are a custom job

                            Maybe so. Maybe not

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                            • GilesG
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                              We need to get services from one end of the house. all the way to the other.  No way of going around the outside without ripping up loads of 4-6" thick slabs, so we are having to take the floors up that I laid 12 years ago….I'm now in the market for Pitch Pine boards, because I had nailed the original ones  to the joists with more than the average amount of gusto..... 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

                              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              • ChrisC
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                                Oh, that sucks.

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                                • GilesG
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                                  I had a provision in my sums for it, so I'm relaxed about it…......

                                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                  • Matty123M
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                                    @Giles:

                                    We need to get services from one end of the house. all the way to the other.  No way of going around the outside without ripping up loads of 4-6" thick slabs, so we are having to take the floors up that I laid 12 years ago….I'm now in the market for Pitch Pine boards, because I had nailed the original ones  to the joists with more than the average amount of gusto..... 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

                                    That’s the IH way innit?

                                    Maybe so. Maybe not

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                                    • organisysO
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                                      Getting the patina to match may be a challenge ?

                                      Pride of Japan :-)

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                                      • GilesG
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                                        When we bought the house, I took all the floorboards out of the top floor and replaced them with chipboard and carpeted the whole of that floor.

                                        The planks I salvaged (plus other ones I "found" on what was a 10 acre derelict site and I had access to everywhere) were used to make good the damaged planks on the other 2 boarded floors.  So we have a complete mismatch of widths, lengths, thicknesses (I used shims to shim to the thickness of the widest) and colour anyway.

                                        I'll lay them, sand them and then apply a few coats of Osmo (which is what I did last tiime) and no one will know that I've done yet another bodge.

                                        https://www.wood-finishes-direct.com/product/osmo-polyx-oil

                                        People comment on the beauty of the floors, so I'm relaxed about this too.

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                        • organisysO
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                                          Nice one, it’s not really a bodge as such as you are reclaiming and repurposing which often happens with any house that is old enough.  😎

                                          Pride of Japan :-)

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                                          • GilesG
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                                            🙂 🙂

                                            Our cills arrived.  One of them damaged…

                                            Instant wabi sabi...

                                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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