Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[Cid]

Some pro-level DIY.

 

[Cid]

Shitty photography mind you, have to fix that one day.

Also please ignore the CLS framework under the desks, ran out of Dougie Fir.

 

[equationgirl]

That's some beautiful work Cid .

 

[teuchter]

What about the skirting boards though?

 

[Cid]

What about the skirting boards though?

They can fuck off for now.

 

[moose]

I wish you lived in my house, Cid That's beautiful

 

[equationgirl]

How long did it take you to design and make Cid ?

 

[Cid]

How long did it take you to design and make Cid ?

Bit hard to work out as I had it going for a while as a side project. Probably a month or more full-time when all's said and done though... Lot of complicated bits in there, one-off, cabinets in solid timber etc. Life would have been easier if I had a thickness sander... The slatted panels were a right faff.

Also not quite finished, needs some trim work, bit of tidying up and - as teuchter pointed out - a bit of new skirting board. But fine with that for the time being. Need to sort my bathroom out next due to it being generic cheap new-build flat with grout fail.

 

[bimble]

Proper meddling underway here, definitely doesn’t count as diy. Am distressing the shiny goldy coloured light switches and sockets with wire wool & patinating fluid. I think it’s working quite well but either way it counts as entertainment today. They were just too shiny.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

Got our key today. Developer still has some issues to work out, but the surroundings and views are stunning...

View from the neighbours patio... (our friends)


Me on the patio...


View from garden boundary..


View from roof terrace..

 

[equationgirl]

Looks lovely FabricLiveBaby!

 

[bimble]

Been watching youtube videos on how to paint (!) upholstery. Am extremely excited about this, have a lovely comfy massive velvet chair/sofa that’s been hidden under crap throws for years because it’s a very loud turquoise colour. Will report back with my attempt to transform it using actual paint. As soon as paint is available.

 

[bimble]

good morning meddlers.
Can anybody please tell me:
1) what is the name for the wooden strut things in between panes of glass like in these windows and
2) what is the right material to use to repair the bits that have fallen off (there are loads like this and water will get in and rot the frames if i don't fix them)? Would i be looking for some kind of putty/ filler and if so what kind or do i really want to get some bits of wooden beading and cut them to size and glue (?) them into place before painting?

 

[danski]

Looks like putty on my phone.

 

[mauvais]

They're called duplex bars or Georgian bars.

In modern windows, however, they use a single sheet of glass and stick these on top. In your window it's probably separate panes. So what we're talking about here might be much more integral to the window than the modern ones.

If they were aesthetic then you could easily DIY it. As it is I think you'd be best off with a joiner or more likely just new windows.

 

[teuchter]

They are not duplex bars/georgian bars - those are components of modern double glazed windows.

These are just regular traditional glazing bars. Looks like they are wooden with putty beading. You see putty on older metal windows too. Google "replace window putty".

Eg How to Remove and Replace Putty and Glass From Single Pane Windows | DIY Doctor

Don't try and make wooden beads and glue them into place!

 

[mauvais]

Oh, fair enough, I thought they'd always been called that and were just implemented differently now.

Are you saying it's just the putty that's failed in that pic? I thought a bit of wood had come off.

 

[teuchter]

Yes. From the way it's broken, it looks like putty to me.

 

[co-op]

I've been whinging on another thread about building regs for second hand windows so I thought I'd show off a couple of my installations. Here's the bathroom - solid oak window out of some barn conversion. £100 for the window, including ironmongery, put this one in myself with a friend.

 

[co-op]

This is the sitting room, I'm such a crap photographer that I can't get the whole thing in without the sun blitzing the picture so I've taken at an angle. This thing was a beast, it took 3 of us to lift it into the van. Blond oak, 4 casement, out of a back extension someone was changing to patio doors. It's nearly 5' high. This was £200 on gumtree but I haggled a tenner off! I got a proper builder to put this in because it's out front, he chraged me £120 but it was blatently too low (it took a whole day for him and a mate) so I gave them £200 because I was well happy with the result (although I had to fill in a course of bricks underneath and then replaster etc myself, but that was pretty easy).

 

[equationgirl]

Nice @windows co-op

 

[izz]

View attachment 214590This is the sitting room, I'm such a crap photographer that I can't get the whole thing in without the sun blitzing the picture so I've taken at an angle. This thing was a beast, it took 3 of us to lift it into the van. Blond oak, 4 casement, out of a back extension someone was changing to patio doors. It's nearly 5' high. This was £200 on gumtree but I haggled a tenner off! I got a proper builder to put this in because it's out front, he chraged me £120 but it was blatently too low (it took a whole day for him and a mate) so I gave them £200 because I was well happy with the result (although I had to fill in a course of bricks underneath and then replaster etc myself, but that was pretty easy).

Splendid shelving

 

[co-op]

Nice @windows co-op

Thanks, I've become a bit of an oak window fetishist now. They make even quite small nothingy rooms feel kind of stately and ancient but also cosy.

Natural materials innit, they're just nicer.

 

[co-op]

Splendid shelving

Reject scaff boards, sanded down, cheap and (if you look too closely) not that good quality but rustic and nice.

 

[izz]

Reject scaff boards, sanded down, cheap and (if you look too closely) not that good quality but rustic and nice.

nicely done though, particularly like the shelf over the window - kinda wasted space otherwise.

 

[bimble]

Big window envy co-op . They look beautiful just the wood like that. Are they painted on the outside or just sealed in some way?

 

[Johnny Doe]

Smiles Towers sorted out for summer

 

[co-op]

Big window envy co-op . They look beautiful just the wood like that. Are they painted on the outside or just sealed in some way?

The big windows in the lounge are painted white on the outside which means they almost look like plastic ones , but that was a bonus in some ways because (as whined about by me on the other thread on building regs) technically they're not building regs/planning permission compliant so it's quite good that they don't stand out. But one day I do plan to paint over with something else - quite tempted by the traditional dark green windowframe colour - just to swank about the fact they're wood, LOOK WOOD!

But the smaller ones upstairs are just plain wood on the outside, they were pretty old I think so they've gone that grey that oak turns, can't really be bothered to do anything about that so I just oil them every now and then and I guess they'll slowly turn black like Ye Olde Tea Shoppe kind of places?

 

[Cloo]

Well I've tried a couple of colours for front room. Pale is too insipid, the dark duck-egg might work nicely (large, tall Edwardian 'drawing room'), the very intense sky blue at the top could be interesting or too kids' bedroom, I can't really tell.

 

[RubyToogood]

Well I've tried a couple of colours for front room. Pale is too insipid, the dark duck-egg might work nicely (large, tall Edwardian 'drawing room'), the very intense sky blue at the top could be interesting or too kids' bedroom, I can't really tell. View attachment 216741

Top tip for getting a true picture of what a paint colour will look like once it's on all your walls and bouncing off itself - paint the inside of a cardboard box.