Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House
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Delft tiles are obviously traditionally blue, but I believe that they do also exist historically in maroon, green and polychrome (whether or not that is true, I like the green and we already have blue and maroon elsewhere in the house and the green will define the colour pallet of the kitchen)
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I used to see original tiles in antique shops when I lived in Delft. One that always amused me depicted a cat eating a mouse.
This mermaid dates from around 1750, and is black, rather than blue.
Whilst this one is from 1600 to 1630, and is multicoloured. However, it does come from Rotterdam, so maybe they didn't do things right there.
The green is good, and it'll match those boots of yours. That's surely got to be an important interior design decision, right?
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^ It's all looking good.
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Looks like solid progress there, Giles. When's the projected end?
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I don't do projections - IWHWIH…...
I have some logistical challenges ahead of me, all based around trade availability..
Brickwork can't be completed until gauged arches are made, and I could not order them until the actual door and window sizings were known
Steels should go in tomorrow (unless I need a crane)
Once steels are in, I need to get joists and inner roof made (can start that without external walls being complete). Meeting a man about that today
I need to render the external south wall, no idea who I will get to do that.
Once outer walls are complete, I can get outer roof laid
Then I need doors and windows made (did not know what size to make until brickwork started), meeting a man about them later today
Once it's weatherproof, I can knock whole through to existing house (18" solid brick wall) - Paula is looking forward to the dust.
Then plumbing, electrics, laying floor, painting, installing kitchen etc etc etc....
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wow. it's coming along well. i'm looking forward to seeing this. or rather, what's been completed by then..
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The blocks are 100mm thick high-density concrete.
I could have let the architect run the job, then it would have cost me 15% of the total price to have a prick that does not really know what I want, trying to up the contract price so I would have to pay more….
And. He would have wanted to give the job to a "mate", who would have been busy, so could have taken forever.
And. I like finding the best at what they do, myself.
And. I love understanding exactly what is going on.
And. I'm a control freak.
And. I actually like having only myself to blame for any fuck ups....
All sad, but true.
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Ah Concrete, makes Sense, I to date never did one Project with those Blocks, due to our Strict Environemnt Protection Rules they are basicly gone from that Market, in Germany this would be probably a 36 cm high hole Brick as a Core or a 24cm one with additional Rockwool.
You seem to have quite a bad meaning of my Collegues, we or lets say I take pride in helping People to exactly get what they want and through tendering even much cheaper then if they would ask the Contractors themselfs. The Other Arguements are of course Valuable but a good Architect should know the best People of every Craft in their Area but of course that is not the Case most of the time. In the End building is a bit different on the other Side of the Pond, where quite Crazy here when it comes to Rules and Regulations to a Point where no Customers gets them all the way so they have to ask us for help to get through without Major problems with the authority. -
My walls are 100mm brick, 40mm void, 60mm Cellotex, 100mm block- 300mm total. The walls on the existing structure are 500mm solid brick.
Part of the issue is that when we bought the house 12 years ago I managed the complete restoration. It had no power, water, gas, floors and ceilings were missing etc etc. etc. It had been empty for 23 years.
So, I know this building better than anyone else alive. The architect I used (mainly to help me get planning and listed building consent), was and is good. But he just did not have enough of the back-story, I have been asked numerous questions by the tradesmen, that he would not have known (nor should he) the answer to, and would have to have asked me anyway.
Got to go now, steels were due to arrive today, but they have been delayed, so I'm off to pick up the smallest of them for the brickies, they really need it now….
