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

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    Anesthetist
    見習いボス
    Joined: 14 May 2011

    @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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    IG: bluehandsslim

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      Giles
      IHUK Crew
      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

      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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        Steffen
        Joined: 26 Jul 2017

        Yeah and the Party finally goes on  😉

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          Giles
          IHUK Crew
          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

          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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            Dion
            Joined: 15 Mar 2015

            New drone for Sam to play with?

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              Chris
              Raw and Unwashed
              Joined: 28 Jun 2010

              I found it!

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                Giles
                IHUK Crew
                Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                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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                  Giles
                  IHUK Crew
                  Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                  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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                    hajduk
                    啓蒙家
                    Joined: 14 Jul 2010

                    Very nice job made with the bricks!

                    Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

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

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                      ROman
                      Haraki san Prodigy
                      Joined: 5 Jan 2015

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

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                        mclaincausey
                        見習いボス
                        Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                        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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                          Matty123
                          Raw and Unwashed
                          Joined: 4 Apr 2017

                          Really hard on the wallet  😉 those are a custom job

                          Maybe so. Maybe not

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                            Giles
                            IHUK Crew
                            Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                            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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                              Chris
                              Raw and Unwashed
                              Joined: 28 Jun 2010

                              Oh, that sucks.

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                                Giles
                                IHUK Crew
                                Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                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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                                  Matty123
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                                  Joined: 4 Apr 2017

                                  @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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                                    organisys
                                    Raw and Unwashed
                                    Joined: 24 Mar 2015

                                    Getting the patina to match may be a challenge ?

                                    Pride of Japan :-)

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                                      Giles
                                      IHUK Crew
                                      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                      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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                                        organisys
                                        Raw and Unwashed
                                        Joined: 24 Mar 2015

                                        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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                                          Giles
                                          IHUK Crew
                                          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                          🙂 🙂

                                          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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