![]() Going to be a massive job, but well worth it. Also planning to build a 3 car garage, but that'll be 2014's project! There is also a boiler room, and an outside storage in stone approx 45m2. Top floor is storage at the moment, but is already an open space 105m2 and floored ripe for conversion to the extra 2 bedrooms and another bathroom. It's on three floors, basement will be the boyz room, approx 270m2 space will house the cinema room, pool table, bar, and gym with sauna and 2 bathrooms.įirst floor is 254m2 and will house the kitchen, dining area, lounge, kids TV room, study, bathroom, utility room, DVD room and a 30m2 entrance hallway front the main front door.Ģnd floor is 4 bedrooms, all ensuite, inc master bedroom 7x 6m with ensuite of 4x3m and dressing room. If i Can get it to go ahead ill post loads of pictures for you all. Scale is big, and so is the amount of work it needs!īeen round again today for another look and I've got hundreds of pictures, but I'm going to hold off just now until I get confirmation of my offer beng accepted by the sellers, before posting loads of pics online. Plan is to have two boilers n the house, and two seperate systems. The main reason for trying to help insulate things now is to keep fuel bills down in the future. Thanks for the advice so far, I'll look into the ideas. So there will definitely be some more questions ahead! ![]() When its all finished and providing I don't run out of money! House is about 875m2 / 9,400sq ft and set in approx 3/4 of an acre and would include 7 bedrooms, pool room, gym, boys den with bar and home cinema room. If I get the property ill also be looking at starting a thread on the renovation, if anyone's interested? If not its going to be a question of removing all the lath and insulating with celotex or kingspan and then re-sheet in plasterboard. One of the things I want to update is the insulation in the building, as it was built in the mid 19th century using stone and finished walls inside using lath and plaster, and I'm pretty sure thes nothing behind it at all!Ī lot of the rooms feature nice cornices and skirting a which I would like to preserve, so I'm trying to work out if there are any good methods of insulating behind the walls whilst keeping the finish intact. What a bloody eyesore, and an insult to the tradesmen who'd put the character into the house in the first place.I'm just in the process of trying to buy a big old house and refurbish it to become my main home. When we split up she bought me out and kept the house but sold it (at a massive profit) a couple of years later the first thing the new owner did was to rip out all the timber leaded lights and clagged heavy white uPVC frames in. On the earth below the lounge floor I spotted what I thought was a wasp's nest gingerly fished it out to find it was the crumpled-up back page from our local evening paper that one of the builders must have tossed after he'd eaten his sarnies, nearly 70 years earlier.Įnded up framing it and hung it in the hall. When I stripped the wallpaper off the chimney breast in the front room the wife noticed some odd marks in the plaster: on closer inspection they were cartoons in pencil of various males, signed and dated 1928 we presumed them to be the guys who'd built the place.Ī year or so later I was installing central heating and had to chop and lift floorboards that had never been up. The guy from whom we bought it in 1995 was only the second owner, he was well into his 80s, his wife had died years before and the place hadn't been decorated in 30 years. For the front and side walls they used red engineering bricks (same builder built the local picture house, wonder where the bricks came from ), it had suspended floors (earth under the downstairs), slate roof, leaded lights, plaster cornices, fancy woodwork, massive beams holding the roof up. It was built as a 3-bed semi against the gable end of a Victorian terrace. ![]() The house I bought with my ex-wife was built in 1928 by a builder for one of his daughters.
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