Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[gentlegreen]

Also from inside the kitchen looking through the wall and into the utility room

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Ma hoose!

Looks a bit like my dream house - a large barn with a bedroom on a mezzanine with a summer kitchen and lounge area underneath - leaving a large double height party area / cinema. insulated with straw bales.

I could easily have this in France - but not in the area I'm looking at for other reasons where old farms are few and far between and the houses are basically single storey with the upstairs bedrooms having sloping ceilings.

 

[gentlegreen]

As I was stewing in my bath earlier, I'm thinking mobile kitchen islands that are actually baths ..

I likes me barf but they're a waste of space 99 percent of the time.

 

[kabbes]

I have to get this out or I will burst:

I wish the kabbess had less precisely defined and refined tastes.

 

[equationgirl]

I have to get this out or I will burst:

I wish the kabbess had less precisely defined and refined tastes.

I guess she's being quite specifically expensive then?

 

[mauvais]

For us it's not about expense but about taking ages to decide on anything, because of a strongly-held specific idea about how it should look, one that doesn't necessarily translate into an actual practical thing that you can buy and would want to live with.

 

[mauvais]

Also guess where I had to go again:



Turns out that the subwoofer cable (ordinary speaker wire) I ran produced an epic hum when only the subwoofer and not the amp was on. Replaced it with coax and it's fixed now.

 

[equationgirl]

I now get to work from home every other week, so have bought myself a new desk. It was an utter pain in the arse to put together, but I do like the way it looks. I'm hoping to paint the living room over Christmas so needed something that was functional and nice to look at without being achingly hip or too narrow - a lot of desks are 100 x 40 cm, this is 120 x 50, big enough for laptop and some papers etc while I work.

Chair is one I already had, cushion I made myself a long time ago.

 

[mauvais]

Nice room! Glasgow?

Your desk is lovely & all the rage now, but the ergonomics horrify me.

 

[kabbes]

I guess she's being quite specifically expensive then?

For us it's not about expense but about taking ages to decide on anything, because of a strongly-held specific idea about how it should look, one that doesn't necessarily translate into an actual practical thing that you can buy and would want to live with.

Both these things. Oh god, both these things.

 

[equationgirl]

Nice room! Glasgow?

Your desk is lovely & all the rage now, but the ergonomics horrify me.

It's quite comfortable, and I get up and move around a fair bit because of my back. Also, I'm quite short so ergonomically I find it OK.

 

[Johnny Doe]

Smiles Towers by night

 

[Idaho]

Idaho has his own sietch

 

[clicker]

Damp being sorted and getting carpet eventually....oh carpet I've missed you. Years of floorboards ( draught and spiders ) and it all goes full circle.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Smiles Towers by nightView attachment 150797

Could do with more lights.....

 

[not-bono-ever]

fucking hell

 

[maomao]

fucking hell

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Your house looks like a sitcom set..

 

[not-bono-ever]

funnily enough i am wandering about in my underwear at the minute

 

[maomao]

This is my next project. My shed (blockwork with proper floor and roof, not one of those little wood things). Haven't really started yet other than to clear all the shit out of it. A week or two ago there was barely space for me to stand inside and smoke a joint. Now I have this:



I want it to look like a proper room inside. Separate work areas for DIY and gardening. More organised storage space and hopefully a bit of clear floor space for me to sit down and smoke a joint. Bit unsure where to start. Need to fill a big crack in the floor and repaint it.

 

[kabbes]

I haz a flr


I haz a tent

 

[Callie]

Meddlars I want to pick your brains!

I want to get the wiring checked (possibly total rewiring) and change the location of and increase the number of sockets.

I'm thinking it would be nuts to do this in winter so leave it until spring-summer??

BUT I also want to to get the plastering done ceiling/walls/coving in one bedroom.

Is it possible to get that bedroom totally replastered and ask them to prep it in such a way that electricians could easily do their thing at a later date??

Or will it have to be left until after the rewiring?

I'm sure it makes more sense to do the plastering after but is it possible to do it the other way around??

Currently all electrics are in trunking sat on the walls and sickets sit proud on the skirting board.

 

[mauvais]

Why would doing it in winter be a problem? It's indoors.

 

[danski]

Anything that's going into the walls is best done before plastering.
Although if it's all surface it might not be such an issue. Can you get whoever is going to do it to advise?

 

[Callie]

Why would doing it in winter be a problem? It's indoors.

Well of they end up rewiring the whole place it might take a while and I assume that means no leccy?? I have no idea tbh

 

[Callie]

I haven't sorted anyone to do it yet I'm in the 'planning' stage.

 

[not-bono-ever]

plastering produces a massive amount of moisture and stuff - would leave it until it is warmer ?

 

[Manter]

Well of they end up rewiring the whole place it might take a while and I assume that means no leccy?? I have no idea tbh

We had the whole of our house rewired- including chasing into existing walls plus new circuit board and loads of jiggery-pokery with socket numbers and locations- in 2 days. We had electricity in the half the house they had finished on day one (they wire the house as a load of loops so any finished loops are operational while they play with the others)

 

[peterkro]

Meddlars I want to pick your brains!

I want to get the wiring checked (possibly total rewiring) and change the location of and increase the number of sockets.

I'm thinking it would be nuts to do this in winter so leave it until spring-summer??

BUT I also want to to get the plastering done ceiling/walls/coving in one bedroom.

Is it possible to get that bedroom totally replastered and ask them to prep it in such a way that electricians could easily do their thing at a later date??

Or will it have to be left until after the rewiring?

I'm sure it makes more sense to do the plastering after but is it possible to do it the other way around??

Currently all electrics are in trunking sat on the walls and sickets sit proud on the skirting board.

Get a sparky in to look at it.Chances are they can go in and do a first fix before the plasterers and then finish it off afterwards when you get the rewire done.

 

[Callie]

We had the whole of our house rewired- including chasing into existing walls plus new circuit board and loads of jiggery-pokery with socket numbers and locations- in 2 days. We had electricity in the half the house they had finished on day one (they wire the house as a load of loops so any finished loops are operational while they play with the others)

2 days!!! I was expecting at least a week. That's awesome. That's the kind of info I was after because I can't even visualise how it would run. I just assumed they'd have to switch the lot off.

If you have an electrician you'd recommend can you pm me? I'll add them to my list to contact. Also how much did it cost?

 

[Manter]

2 days!!! I was expecting at least a week. That's awesome. That's the kind of info I was after because I can't even visualise how it would run. I just assumed they'd have to switch the lot off.

If you have an electrician you'd recommend can you pm me? I'll add them to my list to contact. Also how much did it cost?

He’s left the UK because of Brexit.

Let me see if I can find the receipt- can’t remember

 

[Callie]

He’s left the UK because of Brexit.

Let me see if I can find the receipt- can’t remember