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| garry |
house renovationWe've been doing our house up for ages (2 years at least). Wanted to show you a before and after pic (the after pic is from blackberry so might not be great). As you can see, it was a little more than a lick of paint. It included:-Re-wire Re-plumb New drains Damp course New tie-ins re-point kitchen bathrooms plastering etc etc It's been a really hard slog and I'm really proud of what we've achieved. Before: 
After: 
Good eh! |
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| TimR |
Looks nice.
Mind you, if you's looked after it better in the first place you might not've had to do so much 
You didn't even used to clean the windows. |
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| PG |
Looking good. I'm assuming you were not living in it when the first pic was taken? | ||||
| garry |
Nope. We bought it and rented a house for 12 months. |
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| Mike Amos |
Nice job, new windows/chimney's?
Do you have a set of drawings of the place (2d)? Thats the sort of place I'd like to use to produce some 3d models/renders from. |
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| scamper |
The first pic if an Alfa would be descibed as having "character"
Very nice. I love sash windows, me. |
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| Big TC |
That's a lovely job, Garry. Makes my current works on my old house seem like child's play (Just finished a kitchen re-furb, just about finished the bathroom, now moving onto entrance porch, hall, stairs & landing, then the bedrooms...)
Looks like an ideal place to have a Forum Christmas party (where is it located again......?) |
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| garry |
Afraid not Mike. The windows are original sash. Got them restored. All the chimneys have been rebuilt. |
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| SpecB |
Beautiful. | ||||
| Roadrunner |
Very nice. Having done a renovation two/three years ago we sold it and vowed never again. Beginning to get the itch though... | ||||
| TimR |
It's terrible isn't it. All my power tools are sitting in the garage collecting dust and looking forlorn
Living in a nice shiny almost new house (as we do at the moment) is great for so many reasons, especially when the gas bill comes in, but there's just no character. |
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| Boxer6 |
If you're bored, my mum's house could do with re-wiring! |
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| Roadsterstu |
Looks like it was a fairly brave project to take on. I'd love to do something similar, or a self-build, in the future, but Mrs Roadsterstu isn't too keen on the work involved and prefers somewhere ready to move into.
How much did you do yourself? It looks lovely. |
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| TimR |
Mrs Tim does the electrics
We were going to do a self build 4 years ago. The house we'd bought was a steel framed thing made from sections of concrete and they're notorious for the frame rusting so we were gonna flatten it. We even bought a static caravan, put it in the garden and stripped it ready to tart up for ourselves. But then we decided to sell the house instead
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| garry |
I get stuck in, but all the big jobs were done by tradesmen. My main role was to do loads of donkey work on a weekend - stripping stuff out ready for the tradespeople to come in. I did all the garden myself. That might not sound too impressive, but we went from this: 
to this: 
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr |
And the Corsa turned into a CLS! | ||||
| TimR |
That looks like a lot of hard work. | ||||
| scamper |
The garden shed has shrunk a bit. | ||||
| Scouse |
I swore never again after converting the barn. Now I'm begining to get the itch to do something again. Might have to restrict it to an extension & partial removal of the the big barn to give a bigger garden. | ||||
| SpecB |
When the land that our stables is on sells for housing in the upcoming years (not until at least 2016), we are going to get a farm that needs renovation.
I would never do a big project while living at the house again. Last year's kitchen extension drove me very nearly mad. |
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| Frank Bullitt |
Is this a game of Spot the Difference?!
Looks lovely, really does. A well-presented Georgean (I believe...) house if ever I did see one. |
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| Roadrunner |
Exactly. |
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| Chris M Wants a V-10 |
Looks like a job very well done.
By coincidence I went here on Saturday..... http://www.buildstore.co.uk/mykindofhome/index.html possibly a useful place to visit for anyone thinking of renovating or doing a self-build |
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| LittleSwill |
Tell me you haven't got rid of your garage! | ||||
| Stuntman |
I reckon you've actually just moved house 
It looks fabulous. I really hope you enjoy living there and basking in the warm virtuous glow generated by your labours and your vision! |