Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[quimcunx]

The decorators are finally in to do what we wanted to get done about this time last year, so it's goodbye to the anaglypta (and then that fucking carpet....)

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This is exceedingly similar to the carpet in my parents bedroom! Just as I was typing this dad trundled up wondering what I'm doing and he thinks it's the same. It's not but it is equally horrible.

 

[teuchter]

Maybe I can get the steel doors but a carpenter to help me measure for and then fit them. Wood seems a bad idea, north facing, the current wooden door is basically soggy sawdust in the shape of a door.

Steel doors will let all the heat out. And it'll not be long until the various crittal look-alikes just become a fashion associated with the 2010s. In my opinion the best solution is often composite - timber with aluminium on the outside so they are not subject to the inevitable lack of maintenance that means that most timber windows don't ever reach their potential lifespan.

 

[bimble]

If I'm only a couple of years out of fashion thats good going.
But I've now found the paperwork from the previous owner's new doors and window that he got put into the kitchen. It would probably be the best most coherent thing if i can get the same company to make this door for me, to match, if its not 3k. They are fine and seem a sensible and non drafty compromise? Metal Framed Doors | Pas 24 Metal Glass Doors | Met Therm

 

[teuchter]

If I'm only a couple of years out of fashion thats good going.
But I've now found the paperwork from the previous owner's new doors and window that he got put into the kitchen. It would probably be the best most coherent thing if i can get the same company to make this door for me, to match, if its not 3k. They are fine and seem a sensible and non drafty compromise? Metal Framed Doors | Pas 24 Metal Glass Doors | Met Therm

I don't think they are "out of fashion" yet; they still seem very popular; it's just that they might look dated in 10 years because so many people are putting them into buildings where they don't necessarily fit with the style or history of the host building. They might become the avocado bathroom suite of the future. Nonetheless they can still look good in many situations.

I don't much like that Met-therm website because it refuses to give me any technical details about what they actually are. No drawings showing me the exact dimensions of the framing system. A single, vague and mostly useless U-value number. They even seem to avoid stating what the windows are made of. I think they are probably aluminium.

Of course if you already have some of them then you know what you will be getting so if you like them, and are not bothered about things like thermal performance, maybe it would make sense.

 

[bimble]

I hate the website too, all pictures no info. Have emailed them asking what exactly do I have here and how much for another of the same.

 

[quimcunx]

The decorators are finally in to do what we wanted to get done about this time last year, so it's goodbye to the anaglypta (and then that fucking carpet....)

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[teuchter]

Oh, I thought you were all talking about the rug.

I'd take the carpet over the rug.

 

[Cloo]

Our new carpet is actually in warehouse already, so had better ask decorator when he'll be done (by end of next week at this rate it looks like to me) - hopefully we can get that in ASAP because we can't put anything back in the room until the carpet's in. Blinds and tiles can come in whenever, but soon hopefully - I have finally found fireplace tiles gsv finds acceptable, but unfortunately it seems like nice (and very good) Hungarian tiler who lived down the road isn't about anymore so I'll have to find someone else. But we can pick up the tiles from Topps within a week of ordering.

 

[Cloo]

Some 40s/50s maybe? wallpaper behind the radiator we've taken off



Have left old rad outside, plumber and a few others have said they tend to vanish within a few days, but will call someone if it doesn't.

 

[kabbes]

Rather than Crittall, I can recommend the Cotswold Casement Company, which were cheaper as well as nicer when we were looking in 2018. They quoted installation separately to manufacture too, as I recall.

My favourite window in the house is not one of the steel ones made by them, though, it’s the wooden one we had made as a replacement for one in the bedroom that already had a wooden window elsewhere. That was just made by the site carpenter. It’s beautiful. I kind of wish we’d got him to do all of the windows.

 

[Cloo]

The blue's on and it's pretty lush. Nb, there's totally madness going on on the floor - appears to be vinyl on floorboards, then underlay, then a large rug, then another layer of underlay, then the vile carpet Friend has suggested could be for extra insulation, which might figure with previous owners.

 

[marty21]

Some 40s/50s maybe? wallpaper behind the radiator we've taken off

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Have left old rad outside, plumber and a few others have said they tend to vanish within a few days, but will call someone if it doesn't.

When we had our decade old boiler replaced last year , the plumber was going to take it away, left it outside for about 5 minutes , and it disappeared

 

[Cloo]

When we had our decade old boiler replaced last year , the plumber was going to take it away, left it outside for about 5 minutes , and it disappeared

Oh yeah, it was gone next morning, big arse 2m+ radiator (50kg at least, plumber reckoned), was most impressed

 

[marty21]

As the roof is being replaced & the scaffolding is up , we are now getting the front repainted . The young people downstairs have fired us with enthusiasm for doing stuff to the house

 

[Cloo]

As the roof is being replaced & the scaffolding is up , we are now getting the front repainted . The young people downstairs have fired us with enthusiasm for doing stuff to the house

Yeah, the bloke doing the front room also does exteriors and has done both houses to our right, and we're planning to do that alongside loft conversion later this year. Especially as we now have the only tatty looking frontage on our row

 

[mauvais]

I've been meaning to post a few photos.

Bedroom radiator is in, curtains are up, skirting is painted.



And the new architraves etc got painted, so the living room is back together and, I think, finally complete. Oh except for some curtains.



Quite a difference from this (from the sales listing) when we bought it:

 

[Cloo]

Of course, now we have the room done gsv had 2nd thoughts about the fireplace tiles but seems to have realised it'll just take forever to work out an alternative, so I have now ordered them! Hoping we can get them in and done in next week and a half so carpet can go in afterwards.

 

[bimble]

what a bust. Hope the previous owners took that with them.

 

[Epona]

The blue's on and it's pretty lush. Nb, there's totally madness going on on the floor - appears to be vinyl on floorboards, then underlay, then a large rug, then another layer of underlay, then the vile carpet Friend has suggested could be for extra insulation, which might figure with previous owners.

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Oooh that's lovely, when you were talking about it previously I was worried it might be a bit dark, but that's lush!

I'd go for that wall colour in our bedroom if I can convince the OH that he doesn't love duck egg type green/blue tones - what brand/colour is it?

 

[Cloo]

Oooh that's lovely, when you were talking about it previously I was worried it might be a bit dark, but that's lush!

I'd go for that wall colour in our bedroom if I can convince the OH that he doesn't love duck egg type green/blue tones - what brand/colour is it?

Crown Period Collection Classic Duck Egg

In many ways would have liked to have gone for a 'ballsier' colour but was happy to compromise on something that would just look really nice in the space. Means there is an awful lot of grey-blue downstairs, but I guess it's nice that there's a bit of a colour theme.

 

[Epona]

Crown Period Collection Classic Duck Egg

In many ways would have liked to have gone for a 'ballsier' colour but was happy to compromise on something that would just look really nice in the space. Means there is an awful lot of grey-blue downstairs, but I guess it's nice that there's a bit of a colour theme.

Oh that's a nice duck egg, unless the gamma is wrong on my monitor that is far less green/aqua than the one OH wanted (from a Wickes swatch card). I could go with that shade though and point to the label on the tin that says duck egg and get away with it

Not that I can afford to buy materials at the moment however, but it is hopefully on the cards for the not too distant future. OH would need to be back at work anyway, with his repiratory problems I wouldn't really want to be sanding while he is here.

 

[marty21]

Yeah, the bloke doing the front room also does exteriors and has done both houses to our right, and we're planning to do that alongside loft conversion later this year. Especially as we now have the only tatty looking frontage on our row

Work is progressing, we need to decide on a new colour for the front door , after 24 years of a blue door, consulting with downstairs later , early favourite is olive green

 

[marty21]

Might take a picture later of the scaffolding bedecked house

 

[marty21]

Every now and again , the roofers will sing a long to a song on the radio, they are pumping out I get around by the Beach Boys atm

 

[Cloo]

Have torn up about 70% of vile carpet - glad we have lots of facemasks around and god knows what vile dust and pulverised underlay is rising up from it. Now everything underneath is covered with a layer of underlay dust/small fragments - not sure how best to get rid, as past experience has showed that hoovering up large amounts of this sort of shit kills your hoover, so may just have to sweep up as much of it as possible, then the remainder might not murder the hoover as much.

 

[teuchter]

Have torn up about 70% of vile carpet - glad we have lots of facemasks around and god knows what vile dust and pulverised underlay is rising up from it. Now everything underneath is covered with a layer of underlay dust/small fragments - not sure how best to get rid, as past experience has showed that hoovering up large amounts of this sort of shit kills your hoover, so may just have to sweep up as much of it as possible, then the remainder might not murder the hoover as much.

Invest in one of these kinds of things.

Wet and Dry Vacuum Cleaners | Kärcher UK


I killed a couple of "normal" hoovers on extensive DIY tasks before realising I just needed something tougher (and with the capacity to clear up a large volume of stuff).

It also just makes life much better if you can clear up easily and quickly at the end of the day.

 

[Cloo]

We have a hardware hire place just down the road, so I am considering seeing if we should hire a hardcore hoover (i think it's a thing) for this.

 

[marty21]

The current situation , roof is nearly done, the top half is nearly painted (ours is the upper flat) . I'm looking forward to not hearing people banging on the roof at 7.30am .

 

[marty21]

Of course now the outside is nearly sorted , now the inside probably needs more

 

[marty21]

The roof is all done! Have avoided getting this sorted for several years, partly because I thought it would cost a lot the bill should work put at £12000 for us . The actual work of replacing the roof only took about 8 days .