January 17, 20179 yr Hello all. I was gutted when I realised that the old ebuild forum had gone... but delighted to find you here! I'm hoping to start work on my place in the next few weeks. We bought the place 5 years ago. It's a former shop, built around 1900 and added to later, which became purely residential about 15 years ago. It has a very odd design and layout, essentially a two storey original shop with a second two storey storage building attached later with a single storey linking corridor. So somewhat quirky! Additional issues created because the building is the property boundary on two sides. We're demolishing the middle section and rebuilding to create a single building. It'll be open plan downstairs, with a full height void in the central area. It has taken us a frustratingly long time to get to this stage, having had issues with our engineer and the mortgage broker. We're now poised to start... but the recent inflation in materials prices has hit us and we're having to renegotiate with the builder. Here's to getting started with the build! (I do not work in glazing and may not have a huge amount to offer by way of experience! But no doubt the experience is about to begin...)
January 17, 20179 yr Hi and welcome to the forum. It sounds s very interesting project. Why not start a blog here to document your progress? Glad you found us in our new home.
January 17, 20179 yr Welcome to the forum, It sounds like an interesting project. Please do post some photos when you get chance.
January 18, 20179 yr 15 hours ago, oldcoop said: [...] It has taken us a frustratingly long time to get to this stage, having had issues with our engineer and the mortgage broker. [...] Welcome to the club then .... in more ways than one. I don't think there's one person using this discussion group that hasn't been held up for a whole host of reasons. Ian
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