Neph’s new house…
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i've been in the army. i can be your manual labour bitch. bit of whinging but always get to the end.
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Congrats Reuben! I don’t geton here often enough.
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@Seul @louisbosco where there’s love there’s room. Bring it on.
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@neph93 What's the rubble between the floor joists? Are the joists just sitting on grade or is that the 2nd floor somehow??
That is clay (now dried and crumbled), mixed with a bit of stone for bulk. It is in both floor dividers and as a solid layer is on top og the bedrock too. It was used as cheap, effective sound and heat insulation in 1941.
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I love that the Houses in your Woodwork look like yours (and the previous one), just remodeling the interior is easier and faster than having to remodel everything on the outside as well. We germans had a couple of rough decades when it comes to family homes…
Outside is just a case of changing the weather boards.
This may interest you and others…i did a shift today in the living area. I don’t knownthe dimensions for sure but I’d imagine it is about 30m2. An additional structure has been built in 1980 to extend the 1941 original. Here you can see the contrasting building techniques:
1980 on the left of the picture, 1942 to the right. The 1980 construction is basically the same as is used today, 2x6 studs, waterproofed chipboard and damp-proofing. The 1941 is a shitload of wood.
Here is a piece of the original external wall that has been left in place when the extension was built. It shows the thickness (2”) and the joining method (very robust tongue and groove), as shown in a cross section earlier, there are two layers of this in the external walls with assorted wind proofing, insulating and damp resistant layers squeezed in between:
We’ve now ripped out three bedrooms, a bathroom, a hallway and most of the living room. In the 80 year old section we have found no signs of damp or any kind of water damage. In the 1980 construction it is a different story:
Plus a wasp’s nest in the ceiling:
People have wondered why we are being so thorough with the demolition, taking everything back to the essential construction. This is one of the reasons why. We can now secure and treat the construction, remedying any issues we find, both old and more recent, to ensure it is sound for the foreseeable future. Also, tearing stuff up is fun [emoji1]
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Good on you for being thorough in the whole process right from the start.
& man, having an international IH building crew. That would be something! Your house would be the most over-engineered residence in the area able to withstand anything for the next handful of decades, century even!
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Good on you for being thorough in the whole process right from the start.
Cheers. There are lots of reasons for it of course. I learnt from doing something similar on my current home that knowing everything about the construction, the piping, the cabling, where the joists, studs and beams are is so useful and reassuring. Not least, I like to know where the dodgy bits are [emoji1]
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Which is precisely why I chose not to have an architect manage the building of the new extension/kitchen. When we renovated our house (which had not been lived in for 23 years before we bought it) 14 or so years ago, we stripped it back to bare-bones and did everything. So. I knew every single little foible and gotcha that was going to present itself with the new build. The architect would have been a) asking me a bzillion questions, and b) fucking stuff up…..
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Wow @neph93 - what a lot of work, but amazing what you've achieved already! This is really interesting and fun to watch
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@Madame:
Wow @neph93 - what a lot of work, but amazing what you've achieved already! This is really interesting and fun to watch
Thank you, darling [emoji3526] It is very useful having a large family of strong, young men and women.
I’m also a tireless taskmaster/slavedriver. The contractors we’ve had in have been impressed by how thorough the demolition is. I made sure I took all the credit [emoji1]
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You’re killing it. I just moved myself. Moving is my favorite…..
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You’re killing it. I just moved myself. Moving is my favorite…..
Ha… I sense irony hiding antipathy. The worst thing about this gig is that at the end of all the blood, sweat and tears, there will be more blood, sweat and tears because we’ll have to actually move house [emoji1]
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So after a month of aforementioned blood sweat and tears, I’m nearly finished with the demolition. 50 cubic metres of crap has been ripped out and sent to the tip. The clay from the floor will be removed by a giant, truck mounted vacuum cleaner soon and then it will be time to get the builders in (if we ever find any we trust).
I could take you all for an extended pictorial tour, but it all looks like this:
Although to be fair I got some assistance to move the crap out. Look how pleased he is to help:
Here is a shot of the upstairs bathroom… seen from the downstairs hallway [emoji23]
We did make a new archeological find. Someone obviously injured themselves 80 years ago as this packaging was for gauze and bought from
a local chemist that doesn’t exist anymore. I’m going to do some research to find out about it:
Update on the Shinayaka denim coming on the appropriate thread soon. I’ll be washing them next week. For now a bit of dirty vest porn….
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How cool is this going to be when its done?–plus the added satisfaction of having done it with your own two hands.
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Indeed… specs were not quite the same in those days. There were obviously some standards however. The planks that form the load bearing walls are very nicely finished, as are the very beefy 4x10 ([emoji15]) floor beams.
The 1x4 floor boards have some shady finishing with old bark showing on the edges whereas that bit in the pic is part of the underside of the floor divider. They are cut to fit perpendicular to the floor beams and their only function is to keep the clay in place. It looks like they used cut offs and any other old shite for the job.
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After a brief hiatus, things are moving again. This week I have been assisting a hired crew in getting the 80 year old dried clay out from the floors. It has been a struggle but we are done:
Tomorrow I’ll ge taking out the panel you can see between the beams which will leave the entire house open through three floors. Ladders ahoy.Caught a tasty combined sunrise/sunset at 2pm from my balcony:
