Ill post the house ones in here, since its more concrete and hitting lumps of stone with big hammers than actual precision lovelyness..
We seen this and fell in love with the location, it was a old machinery shed and cow barn with no services or anything. But just knock down the new block section with the tin roof and build a interior right? I work so we were going to take a mortgage out and get a specialist renovation company in to do it :-
Did some doodling and got the change of use and planning approved on them and a quote for the works we could afford , so we put our 10% deposit down which here is legally binding.
If only it was this easy to do in reality...
Then the banking world fell apart and the bank refused the provisionally approved mortgage even though we had our other house as outright collateral. So stupidly I decided to do it all myself. The first 6 months alone were spent demolishing the cow troughs and other internal fittings, removing some too low celings and making some piercings and casting in lintels and formwork for internal doorways in the huge dirt and stone walls downstairs.
building of the internal walls with foundations etc to tie it all in a bit better and add a bit of strength to carry upstairs on.
Some reinforced concrete pillars to carry the upstairs carrier beams which sit under the floor joists.
Serious underpinning under the end wall after excavation. Lots of steel boxwork running right under the original walls as we found no foundations in that section when doing sample digs. The edge of the visqueen is jutting over the interior face of the poured kerb...
Slurm lorry arrives with a lot of concrete and after much grunting, I madly run round with the float later on to do a diy polished floor, only to discover a 120m2 floor has already gone off at one end while your floating the other on your lonesome...
Rapid rail studwork with 200mm insulation between it and the wall (plus somewhere easy to hide all the services in
)...
Some novel materials handling solutions...
Then we decide the furnace has to go in the house, all half a tonne of it.
Through a doorway...
Id promised my long suffering wife a kitchen to cook christmas dinner in. And by some miracle last xmas managed to deliver on that promise (a year or so late)
Managed to finish the whole downstairs more or less, although we were heating with electric spaceheaters till Id got the heating commisioned properly in jan...
Its a HS Tarm multifuel oil/wood (and soon to be solar too) 50Kw furnace. A little OTT for the size of house so plans are to run a extra loop out and underfloor heat the workshops too, just to keep it ticking over
What my wife termed my "man cave", although not after I pointed out the modern meaning of the term. Yes that is a space invader tiled into the floor because Im a old computer hardware and consoles fiend too
That glowy thing in the foreground is a cocktail cabinet arcade machine, although its a 80's machine its a taiwanese bootleg so Im in the process of changing the innards for a mame based jamma xin1 for all the arcade fiends out there...
Theres also some fruit machines and a jamma arcade cabinet waiting for me to do a jukebox/mame/mythtv conversion on it. Got the parts but no time.
Finally some steel work, they wanted nigh on 800 quid for a celing bracket for the project. Some mig and box section later...
Im now on another mission, Ive promised my wife that we'll have two bedrooms upstairs finished in the circular staircase section so we can move in proper and get rid of the mobile home in the barn. So thats where Im at. Poured some structural pillars for the upstairs joist carriers to sit atop and currently knocking lumps out the front wall cutting window holes in. Then Ive been promised that I can have a break and do my workshops before finishing the other 2/3rds of upstairs...
Sorry about some of the pic sizes, I didnt realize they were that big when I linked them, I can snip them down a bit if they arent auto resizing for people?
