70s Renovation

[HamMac]

Hi All 👋, 
 

We’ve bought a late 60s 3 storey, 3/4 bedroom house in central Scotland quite recently and have undertaken some renovations already.

It was extended in the  early 70s with a garage/sunroom and an extension with a living room and a small WC. 

 

 

Renovations completed so far:

• Full rewire and Cat6 cabling throughout 
• 2 Bedrooms finished and moved in
• Kitchen  relocated to old sitting room to create a larger kitchen dining area (hence gaining another bedroom from where the old kitchen was)
• Updated loft insulation, eaves insulation and are about to put some insulated plasterboard into the remaining two bedrooms

 

Difficulties that we’ve encountered and will fix in the not so soon future:

• Flat roof on sunroom leaking even after trying to paint it with fibreglass paint
• Asbestos in some Artex
• Garage door leaking water into the garage 
• Lintels gathering rust and lifting the porch up
• Single glazed, 5m wide skylight system drafts and let’s a lot of heat out
• Bathroom looks like it has not been changed since

 

Future plans and why I signed up here:

• Batten, insulate and board over Artex with asbestos in living area
• Figure out the best way to upgrade an old Johnson and Starley warm air system. We really like it and would like to keep the vents for a few rooms in the property (as some renovations are done already) and are therefore looking into the Aquair line as we have a separate combi boiler 
• Insulation, insulation and more insulation. Some of the renovated rooms we rushed and therefore did not manage to properly insulate, therefore we need to redo them when the rest of the house is done. Our sunroom is timber frame with 3cm glass fibre wool insulation and cladding therefore freezing in winter and for the flat roofs we have have no insulation whatsoever
• Turning the Sun room flat roof into a roof terrace. We need to figure out if we need planning permission and/or significant changes as I’m unsure if the roof is possible to bear the load.
• Updating cladding on two dormers (bath and bedroom) and sunroom to PVC cladding and insulating in the process