Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House
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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.
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It's looking great. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.
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Man I know dick about masonry but that is beautiful and seems like it would be really hard.
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Really hard on the wallet
those are a custom job -
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.....
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Oh, that sucks.
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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.....
That’s the IH way innit?
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Getting the patina to match may be a challenge ?
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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.
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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.
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I would keep it. Takes the pain out of that first real ding.
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I like your style Giles. Let em rip!
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I’d have installed it too, did you manage to get a few quid back tho?
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Yep, same guys are making the coping stones, so they'll come in a little cheaper.
And if you see the damage to the 200-year-old cills on the main house, you'd understand why I'm not at all bothered. A house is a handmade thing, it can never be perfect, I for one celebrate its idiosyncrasies…..
I'm on my way home from Cairo at the moment, can't wait to see them in situ...
