Back on the self-build waggon...

Glad to see you’re cracking on, keep it up.

Relocated the water meter, just needs all pipes lagging and some proper clips to hold it against the wall, got some on order.

 

 

 

Yorkshire Water contacted to inspect, they've said its a 28day leadtime at moment with coronavirus! Will have to leave that bit of floor up til they've been.

Pipes Lagged:

 

Joists installed:

 

Insulation boards installed and foamed with FM330:

 

Airtight membrane laid:

 

And then ran out of steam!

 

I'm a little on the achey side today! ?

Come on , man up, get on with it ?, no really, well done, best not to over do it, rest up them it will feel better to crack on later. Looking real good ?.

Been a while since i've updated this, but I have been slowly getting on with it. Yorkshire Water came out and inspected the meter and signed it off, so was able to finally get the floor finished and move on.

 

Floor done, and got some stop beads 15mm in depth to ensure my background coat was the correct depth to marry up the existing coving (bit of an amateur cheat i found online), to save any mess putting new coving up.

 

Extended the cupboard and mounted the MVHR unit

 

MVHR vent for the dining room

 

Background plaster done on right hand wall, half done on left/front wall, but couldn't move at this point!

 

Finally got some bags of multi finish, and this weekend got that on the walls.

 

Next weekend going to get plasterboard on the missing bit in the ceiling where the cupboard used to be, plasterboard the cupboard walls, and then do all the joinery bits around the doorway, and hang the new door.

Just done this during my lunch hour, squared off the plaster ready for joinery to go on, and put a piece of plasterboard up on the ceiling to fill the gap, lines up bang on to the other second layer which is on rest of ceiling, so even though I thought it was 9.5mm board, it must have been 12.5mm.

Hats off to you doing a backing coat and top coat - that looks good !

Thanks! Was my first attempt at undercoat plaster, and only my second time plastering, really enjoyed the first time I did it. Managed to get a lovely smooth surface to paint on, few little bits I missed but nothing a bit of easifill and a quick sand won’t cure

Well finally got another room done, or at least phase 1 before the extension...

 

Cupboard boarded...

Plastered...

Coved and undercoated...

 

All decorated and the airtight membrane taped to the wall.

 

Just the radiator to go, which gets delivered Friday, will stick a photo up when its done.

 

Been a huge job this one, not helped by lockdown, but got there in the end!

 

 

Edited September 16, 2020 by MikeGrahamT21

Well done mate, makes me feel tired thinking about how much you have done,!!!

Is it the photos or is that door really narrow?

1 hour ago, daiking said:

Is it the photos or is that door really narrow?

no your right it is a narrow one, it used to be a cupboard there, so its a 610 wide door. In an ideal world i would have put a normal size door in, but its a supporting wall, and I couldn't be doing with ripping out the lintel and putting a new one in for the sake of a few cm's ? its fine to walk through, it'll have to do anyway.

1 hour ago, joe90 said:

Well done mate, makes me feel tired thinking about how much you have done,!!!

 Cheers mate. This has definitely been the hardest room so far, i always knew it was going to be though! Glad its done now.

Few weeks off, and then the master bedroom floor is getting ripped up! But that should be a straight forward, everything out and everything in job...he says lol

20 minutes ago, MikeGrahamT21 said:

no your right it is a narrow one, it used to be a cupboard there, so its a 610 wide door. In an ideal world i would have put a normal size door in, but its a supporting wall, and I couldn't be doing with ripping out the lintel and putting a new one in for the sake of a few cm's ? its fine to walk through, it'll have to do anyway.

That’s not too bad, photos look like it’s only 18”.

Looks good.

 

Borg have visited in pic 4.

 

Then a good result.

 

40 minutes ago, MikeGrahamT21 said:

 Cheers mate. This has definitely been the hardest room so far, i always knew it was going to be though! Glad its done now.

Few weeks off, and then the master bedroom floor is getting ripped up! But that should be a straight forward, everything out and everything in job...he says lol

 

There's always an upside. You can identify the gluttons by their  our inability to exit after being fed. 

 

 

 

Edited September 16, 2020 by Ferdinand

 

Forgot to add this one, not plumbed in yet, but this will be done tomorrow afternoon.