Neph’s new house…
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Check the cellar in the above pics… I'm fairly sure bad things have happened there.
Are you sure that the previous owner wasn't Josef Fritzl's Norwegian cousin?
I'm going to live my house renovation dreams vicariously through you @neph93. Unfortunately Australian property prices are on the lock them up in Broadmoor side of criminally insane, so it's not happening anytime soon. (For example, a modest house in a good suburb of Sydney that's listed at $2.6 million.)
My daughter Sydney is here and saw that. She freaked out. I made up some macabre story about it being where they washed pigs heads and lamb corpses back in the day. She’s vegan [emoji23]
It is amazing. Been there since 1941. If we can figure out a way of getting it to Gosport…. ?
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Very nice @neph93 and lots of work to come. Please do keep the rug on the stairs
The house look like it's build of wood right? Ours too… many houses in Austria are build with wood nowadays again. Well as everyone in the world now knows, there are lots of trees in Austria -
Very Interesting. Basement needs tanking/damp proofing for sure!
When you come to the rewire, especially with there being a lot of timber in the construction, please consider Arc Fault Detection Device(s) in the Consumer Unit. In the latest wiring Regs in the UK, they are recommended (not mandatory, yet) but are specifically designed to reduce the risk of fires caused by some electrical faults.
They are installed together with the usual MCBs/RCDs.Basically they cut off a circuit if there is even minor arcing / sparking..
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Very Interesting. Basement needs tanking/damp proofing for sure!
When you come to the rewire, especially with there being a lot of timber in the construction, please consider Arc Fault Detection Device(s) in the Consumer Unit. In the latest wiring Regs in the UK, they are recommended (not mandatory, yet) but are specifically designed to reduce the risk of fires caused by some electrical faults.
They are installed together with the usual MCBs/RCDs.Basically they cut off a circuit if there is even minor arcing / sparking..
Funnily enough the electrician was in the house disabling the leccy to the top floor when I read this. I asked him about it and he confirmed it is available in Norway and will be an option for us. Thanks for the tip.
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@neph93 LMFAO your wife is super pretty. CONGRATULATIONS
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Thank you for the detailed write-up and I’m very happy for you and the Hot-Missus! I imagine it’s going to be a hell of a challenge but it looks like an awesome project. Following along [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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The gutting of the top floor started yesterday. I had a crew consisting of Hot Ingrid, Jesper and my daughter Sydney (who has just moved to Norway from the UK with a view to staying). They worked like demons and we made a great start.
The construction of the place is insane. I didn’t realise the walls wouldn’t be framework. Instead they are solid, and made of beefy layers of 5x2 with some insulating and damp-proofing layers squeezed in between. We’ll be adding 5cm of insulation (Rockwool or the like) to each side of the wall. Here’s a cross section:
It was pretty great uncovering the layers of up to 80 year old wall paper:
We also found an old wasp/bee nest in a vent. Fascinating…
We hope to get onto the flooring today.
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Wow! I just caught up on this already massive thread! Looks awesome [mention]neph93 [/mention] but very intimidating… can’t wait to see what you do with the place.
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Wow, @neph93 this is so GREAT - it's wonderful that you've got the keys and work has started, and watching this being documented is already fascinating. As if you didn't have enough on your plate, but lots of us are clearly gonna love this thread. Good luck to you and darling Hottie
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@Madame Buttonfly glad your enjoying it. The work is going well and is a welcome distraction from other matters. You’ll notice Noah isn’t paernif the wrecking crew and that is because he is in quarantine because he attended a party where it turned out one of the guests was positive for COVID-19. As if I didn’t have enough in my plate [emoji23]
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The wrecking crew that are available did a grand job pulling up floors today.
These houses have a reputation for being the best built houses in Bodø and everything I have seen supports that. It does make this phase of the renovation less about demolition and more about reverse engineering. I ripped out a closet today and even with a top notch tiger saw, a 100 dollar crowbar and not a little elbow grease it took me four hours. The material specs were superior to what they use on supporting structures these days.
On the other hand, not everything was better before. This is what passed for insulation in 1941…
In walls:
And in floor dividers:
Those last two are the contents of the floor divider between the upper and lower storey ???
We made an interesting find in that space. A very well preserved 80 year old cigarette packet:
The sun even came out as we were wrapping up for the day
And the Shinayaka are getting a kicking:
As is the IHV-16
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@neph93 you are the only one I know that I can say for 100% certainty that in a day where you are getting filthy demolishing a home in hard wearing denim, a hunting vest, work gloves and a crow bar, you will still find room in the kit for a $1000 bracelet.
It doesn't go unnoticed.
