Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[Red Cat]

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After

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Looks good Cloo. Are you pleased with it?

 

[Mation]

Most likely stuck down using bitumen so far easier to cover than remove.


Ours wasn't in great condition when uncovered. Was rotten around the patio door. Took the lot up as it wasn't viable. Sold to partner's colleague for cheap.

Wasn't as nice as that, though. Good luck

Thanks I'm hopeful that it wouldn't be rotten in the living room.

But, that looks pretty rotten in the top right, and around the edges too, perhaps?

Top right is the back of the macerator loo that was put into the cupboard under the other side of the stairs. I wonder if that's been leaking

 

[Callie]

Might be worth giving that a clean up? Will give an idea of the condition and you can use it as a practice zone for fixing, cleaning, restoring if you do have parquet elsewhere?

Experiment floor zone!

 

[RubyToogood]

I lived in a rented flat once that turned out to have a beautiful parquet floor throughout. I spent ages sanding and varnishing it (with the landlord's permission - also with a hand sander).

Then we discovered that there was a clause in the freeholder's lease that they had to have carpet down because of the noise for the flat below.

 

[Epona]

I lived in a rented flat once that turned out to have a beautiful parquet floor throughout. I spent ages sanding and varnishing it (with the landlord's permission - also with a hand sander).

Then we discovered that there was a clause in the freeholder's lease that they had to have carpet down because of the noise for the flat below.

We've got that same clause in our lease, small low rise council block.

However, one of the benefits of parquet is that as it is small blocks usually laid over an insulating layer, it dampens sound rather than amplifying it as long floorboards or some other hard flooring such as laminate boards might - as a musician you will understand the mechanics of this, sounds like the person worried about it probably was being a bit overcautious.
Parquet is excellent flooring in flats!

 

[teuchter]

It's not to dampen general noise, it's specifically impact noise ie footsteps and then it's whether the surface you walk on is hard or not. Perhaps these clauses should allow compulsory slippers as an alternative to carpet.

 

[Epona]

It's not to dampen general noise, it's specifically impact noise ie footsteps and then it's whether the surface you walk on is hard or not. Perhaps these clauses should allow compulsory slippers as an alternative to carpet.

Do you live in a block of flats? There is a massive difference between noise from loudspeakers placed on different surfaces in a neighbours' flat, it isn't just related to footsteps.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Ended up doing a bunch of DIY.

Yesterday I did a few things including attaching a cupboard to a wall using a bodged together system. I had tried to fix it in place in a more straightforward manner but the wall was shitty a d the weight of the cupboard pulled the wall plug out the wall.




Today I will be installing a security alarm system.

 

[Mation]

Might be worth giving that a clean up? Will give an idea of the condition and you can use it as a practice zone for fixing, cleaning, restoring if you do have parquet elsewhere?

Experiment floor zone!

Yep yep! I'm going to do exactly that

I lived in a rented flat once that turned out to have a beautiful parquet floor throughout. I spent ages sanding and varnishing it (with the landlord's permission - also with a hand sander).

Then we discovered that there was a clause in the freeholder's lease that they had to have carpet down because of the noise for the flat below.

Curses

There's a clause like that for this block, too, but it likely doesn't apply to this flat, because of its particular location. I shall investigate.

 

[Cloo]

Looks good Cloo. Are you pleased with it?

Yes, I'd felt a bit like our house was the shabbiest one on the row so now we're not letting our end of the street down. Plus with the roof works the house is now much more weather proof. We really liked the builder/decorator guy and he kindly threw in some freebies like fixing a broken kitchen cabinet door as well so I expect we'll get him back for stuff in future.

 

[ice-is-forming]

Not my house but my closest friends.

Due to 2 rich exes ( and 7 kids ) and her dad dying around ten years ago and leaving her some $ she had enough money to build a palatial house by the beach in this cheap town - then she subdivided and built a smaller house in the back yard too.

She came to europe with me a few years ago and loved all the little cottages etc... then she did a Tasmanian road trip and came back saying she definitely wanted a little house in the country.

Covid migration kicked in and both her houses here by the beach doubled in value, so 18 months ago she rented them both out and bought a bit of land in the middle of absolutely nowhere, for her little house in the country.

She's been living off grid in a shed whilst it's been built. It was just finished and she officially moved in on Christmas Eve.

This is her little house

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Gave myself an electric shock installing a new extractor in the toilet.

Turns out the fuse I had taken out was for the heater not the extractor.

Thankfully not a serious shock.

New extractor now working fine.


Partway through the job.




Replacement

 

[hiccup]

Painted the bannisters white ahead of new carpet on the stairs, and hung some new prints in the living room.

The bannisters took forever. They were fiddly bastards to sand, then needed three coats of undercoat.

 

[cesare]

Painted the bannisters white ahead of new carpet on the stairs, and hung some new prints in the living room.

The bannisters took forever. They were fiddly bastards to sand, then needed three coats of undercoat.

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Well worth the time intricate fiddly bastard painting - it looks fantastic imo x

 

[WouldBe]

Well worth the time intricate fiddly bastard painting - it looks fantastic imo x

I've got 2 to do as well as all the woodwork and 12 doors.

 

[cesare]

I've got 2 to do as well as all the woodwork and 12 doors.

It's a massive job! Is it more economical in time and materials to just replace?

 

[hiccup]

I've got 2 to do as well as all the woodwork and 12 doors.

Sell a kidney and pay someone else to do it would be my advice.

 

[WouldBe]

It's a massive job! Is it more economical in time and materials to just replace?

You'd still have to paint or varnish them all.

I'm wanting to change the stairs so I can go through the hall into the kitchen without going through the dining room.

I'd varnished all the woodwork so it wouldn't matter if it faded but Dulux have stopped doing that colour varnish.

 

[WouldBe]

Sell a kidney and pay someone else to do it would be my advice.

Might be an idea.

 

[izz]

Painted the bannisters white ahead of new carpet on the stairs, and hung some new prints in the living room.

The bannisters took forever. They were fiddly bastards to sand, then needed three coats of undercoat.

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Those banisters look reet classy

 

[danski]

A mate is wanting something like this light set up in his new extension.



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[A380]

So, I spent the Autumn helping my parents sell their house and buy a supported living flat just down the road from me. Then spent the Christmas and most of January refurbishing it for them with my neighbour- who did most of the skilled work to be fair. I put engineered wood floors down as it’s a ground floor flat.

The previous occupant was a woman who didn’t seem to have been able to do much to it for a good few years.

Mum and dad seem very pleased with it so far.

Before:





During:

 

[A380]

And after:

 

[Elpenor]

Good shout on the open shelves in the kitchen, not just extra storage and avoiding having to bend down to lower cupboards but I can imagine it would be far easier to find things for your folks / anyone else.

 

[A380]

Good shout on the open shelves in the kitchen, not just extra storage and avoiding having to bend down to lower cupboards but I can imagine it would be far easier to find things for your folks / anyone else.

Yes, though TBF they will replace the kitchen once they have been in a couple of months and know what they want. They will pay a kitchen fitter for that; that's why I got an integrated dishwasher and sort of bodged it in with a B and Q door front.

 

[Epona]

And after:

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That's lovely - I mean the before pictures actually aren't terrible, but the after is a lovely looking home

 

[ginger_syn]

I put some new flooring in my hall after getting fed up with my horrible carpet,
which took a fair bit of the surface of the floor when i took it up.
Here are the before and after.

 

[ginger_syn]

Also it only cost £12 in total as the floor tile were on sale,
I feel quite chuffed with the results despite my hands being a bit wayward due to arthritis , next project is painting the walls and replacing the carpet in the upper hall.

 

[Epona]

At £12 that's an utter bargain, it looks lovely and you've done a great job of it

 

[ddraig]

Could this be subsidence? Cracks have got worse recently
Thanks