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

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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?

        last edited by 8 Sept 2018, 15:11 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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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
                              Raw and Unwashed
                              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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                                        Matty123
                                        Raw and Unwashed
                                        Joined: 4 Apr 2017

                                        I would keep it. Takes the pain out of that first real ding.

                                        Maybe so. Maybe not

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                                          Giles
                                          IHUK Crew
                                          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                          It's already installed….. 😉

                                          "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

                                          last edited by 21 Sept 2018, 18:22 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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