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New doors and windows are in:

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The whole front of the house is double glazed now, which should make it a lot warmer and quieter as well as more secure.

Again this is a job done in Accoya so they should last approximately forever, although it cost a fortune. The last timber doors had seen better days and like most jobs in the house, removing them produced a newspaper from the time, 1987, so they got a decent run.

It took a year to actually get this one sorted, thanks to Covid.
 
I have been meddling with the house constantly this month, little fiddly things closer to playing than proper DIY. Today’s meddling has made me happy: I’ve had this tall printers drawer thing for years, hadn’t unpacked it here yet and in a lightbulb moment figured out it might fit in the funny alcove in the downstairs loo. Leftover paint from the previous owners dark blue loo walls and it’s gone in pleasingly. Small moments of joy that wouldn’t have happened without the lockdown :thumbs:.

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They're really nice - glad we did this and not uPVC. The doors are 55mm thick, really solid product.

It all shows up how none of our floors and walls are straight or even but whatever, we'll deal with that later.

Just to got to get the internal woodwork painted now and then that job is done.
 
A painter friend recommended spray painting it which did most of it. Then I touched it up with a paint brush. It will probably need a bit of work every year or two, the sun here is tough on outdoor furniture, I have an outdoor wooden table and chairs that I oil every year and it still looks like I've abandoned it in the desert for centuries. :D
 
Up high on the leads today because of some incessant dripping outside the bedroom window last night. Guttering slipped out of it's middle clamp thingy. Cleaned it and moved the clamp thingy a bit and clamped it back. Not ideal because the two bits of guttering are slightly too short to fit in snugly, so it's fingers crossed until the summer. Ideally needs new stuff but will try and bodge something when it's warmer weather.

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Scaffolding went up on Monday for a new roof :eek: it's all been a bit complicated . Downstair's neighbour is a joint freeholder, and decided to sell last year , so we had a chat (as it would have come up in a survey) got quotes done in September, hoping we'd get it done before she sold , but she decided to sell anyway and pay her share to the new joint freeholders. Sale went through just before Christmas.

The roof is original Edwardian (house was built in 1905) but all the tiles have to go as some idiot in the 80s sprayed all that foam insulation in the roof ,under the tiles , which prompted a big sigh from all the roofers who looked at it :facepalm::D

So hopefully, they start work on Monday , roofer said it would take about 10 days :hmm:

Eta , a pic , should have taken it before the scaffolding went up tbf 20210130_182414.jpg
 
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Epona said:
Please tell me he will be able to reach out of the pod to bop people as they walk past - he's probably going to love that!
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Entrance in on wrong side for booping : (
But I could cut another hole in it, just for that, and probably will if lockdown goes on as long as I think it will.
 
mauvais said:
New doors and windows are in:

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The whole front of the house is double glazed now, which should make it a lot warmer and quieter as well as more secure.

Again this is a job done in Accoya so they should last approximately forever, although it cost a fortune. The last timber doors had seen better days and like most jobs in the house, removing them produced a newspaper from the time, 1987, so they got a decent run.

It took a year to actually get this one sorted, thanks to Covid.
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you got good taste
 
Argh, decorator, who I had expected to start mid Feb, messaged today to say he could start on Tuesday... except we need two weeks to empty the room and set things in chain. Have said he should take another job and he's going to, but it's long so that pushes it out to end of Feb. Damn, would have loved to sort sooner, but we needed warning... tbh no bad thing to have plenty. First stage may be clear out parts of son's room and large built in wardrobes so all the filing currently in front room can go there (most of it historical, but needs to be kept). Hopefully it can stay there until we have an loft conversion and/or decide we are definitely not having an au pair again, so the spare room can become a full-time 'office'.
 
RubyToogood said:
I'm actually quite impressed that you lived with that carpet for - how long?
Surely it's nearly back in fashion now.
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Tbh, it's been mostly a junk room that was used intermittently, that's how. For the first 3 years we were here it was so full of junk it basically wasn't navigable, but I made it much more usable in the last two.
 
mauvais when the new doors and windows happened, did the manufacturers come and install or was that two separate things?
I have a timber french/patio door at the back of the house that is very rotten, so that a gentle kick would crumble it completely, and so I need to replace.
Was thinking a steel frame Crittall type thing ideally. But last week had a very awkward zoom video with a saleslady who said an ugly pvc one made & fitted would be 3 grand, and that is really not happening. But if I just order a door to my measurements then I don't know if i can fit it myself or what.
 
Roof works finally started on Tuesday, this has been a proper saga , we'd been avoiding it for years tbf , :facepalm: . It was downstairs selling up that prompted us , and she didn't want the work done until after the sale (she passed on the her costs back to the new owners) . So from having various roofers in over the summer, they have finally started. Noisy work, and distracting when working from home . They've taken down a redundant chimney stack (which had been dodgy for about 20 years and had been letting in rain water for about 5 :facepalm:) . Also replacing a 30 year old skylight , which we could still open but thought we might as well replace whilst they were there.

Now tempted to get the front of the house painted whilst the scaffolding is up , getting a price for that too.
 
bimble said:
mauvais when the new doors and windows happened, did the manufacturers come and install or was that two separate things?
I have a timber french/patio door at the back of the house that is very rotten, so that a gentle kick would crumble it completely, and so I need to replace.
Was thinking a steel frame Crittall type thing ideally. But last week had a very awkward zoom video with a saleslady who said an ugly pvc one made & fitted would be 3 grand, and that is really not happening. But if I just order a door to my measurements then I don't know if i can fit it myself or what.
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Speak to a local carpenter?
 
bimble said:
mauvais when the new doors and windows happened, did the manufacturers come and install or was that two separate things?
I have a timber french/patio door at the back of the house that is very rotten, so that a gentle kick would crumble it completely, and so I need to replace.
Was thinking a steel frame Crittall type thing ideally. But last week had a very awkward zoom video with a saleslady who said an ugly pvc one made & fitted would be 3 grand, and that is really not happening. But if I just order a door to my measurements then I don't know if i can fit it myself or what.
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Yeah, the joinery supplied and fitted. It's a lot of work for two people.

The pair of French doors, plus the other French door, the porch door and the two windows cost a shade under £10k fitted and that's in Accoya which is expensive so your UPVC quote sounds like a right rum deal.
 
bimble said:
mauvais when the new doors and windows happened, did the manufacturers come and install or was that two separate things?
I have a timber french/patio door at the back of the house that is very rotten, so that a gentle kick would crumble it completely, and so I need to replace.
Was thinking a steel frame Crittall type thing ideally. But last week had a very awkward zoom video with a saleslady who said an ugly pvc one made & fitted would be 3 grand, and that is really not happening. But if I just order a door to my measurements then I don't know if i can fit it myself or what.
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How big is the door? :eek:
 
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