ProDave Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 The main kitchen / living room downstairs is progressing well. Now plastered and painted. More on the blog at http://www.willowburn.net/ Look for the entry Main living room / kitchen Next step under floor heating and Oak flooring. Then a kitchen and we move in........ 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan52 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Don't forget windowlean to stop certain people from gazing in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Looking good. Chosen the kitchen yet, or rather has the missus chosen the kitchen yet? I know you suggested tiling under appliances in the kitchen on another thread. What will you do now that you’ve chosen wood? Use tiles underneath anyway, bare floor or wood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedreamer Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 1 hour ago, ProDave said: The main kitchen / living room downstairs is progressing well. Now plastered and painted. More on the blog at http://www.willowburn.net/ Look for the entry Main living room / kitchen Next step under floor heating and Oak flooring. Then a kitchen and we move in........ Looking good. I was planning to have either solid oak or engineered oak, what will be the layers that will go on top of that OSB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted June 12, 2018 Author Share Posted June 12, 2018 25mm by 50mm battens following the joists. Then engineered oak flooring, with the UFH in the gap. The OSB that has been our temporary floor for well over a year remains with the sole job of supporting the UFH pipes. That will be the next job. Kitchen choosing starts soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 43 minutes ago, Thedreamer said: Looking good. I was planning to have either solid oak or engineered oak We were told not to have solid oak with UFH so there is engineered oak here. Not sure if that's still the same thinking, but maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSharp01 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 (edited) looking great Dave, love the double door colour, what RAL is that? Edited June 12, 2018 by MikeSharp01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedreamer Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 1 minute ago, newhome said: We were told not to have solid oak with UFH so there is engineered oak here. Not sure if that's still the same thinking, but maybe not. I think I'm the only one on here that is not having UFH. Probably will go for engineered Oak as well, but if the budget allows would like to have solid Oak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 7 minutes ago, Thedreamer said: Probably will go for engineered Oak as well, but if the budget allows would like to have solid Oak. Probably find it’s cheaper to go with solid - some good deals on it and it can even be used as the structural floor to save cost. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted June 12, 2018 Author Share Posted June 12, 2018 We are having engineered Oak as that's all you can have with UFH. At the last house we had solid Maple as the only solid wood anyone would guarantee for UFH and then only in 90mm wide planks. This time we wanted wider planks so engineered was the only choice. All the doors and windows are RAL7032 Pebble Grey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 23 minutes ago, Thedreamer said: I think I'm the only one on here that is not having UFH. Probably will go for engineered Oak as well, but if the budget allows would like to have solid Oak. Ah sorry, I just assumed you would be having UFH since 99% of people on this forum seem to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 (edited) 52 minutes ago, ProDave said: All the doors and windows are RAL7032 Pebble Grey I too like the colour, we wanted “National trust olive green” for ours but made the mistake of choosing the ral number from an iPad, settled on ral 1000 and told the window company who were spraying our windows , when they arrived we were shocked, not what we chose ( we said) oh yes you did ( they said) we have grown to like ral 1000 but beware people, don’t chose colours from a screen ? Well done dave, we too have just chosen our kitchen, it’s a race to the finish. Edited June 12, 2018 by joe90 Add 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 55 minutes ago, joe90 said: beware people, don’t chose colours from a screen Don’t choose it indoors if it will be used outdoors either. Colours can change dramatically depending on the lighting / natural light. Buy a small pot of paint, paint something with it, and put it in the setting you have in mind for it. Even then you can get it wrong. We chose a colour for the outside of the house. Had it all mixed as a special order and I hated it once it was all painted. Hubby said I would grow to like it (he thought it was ok). Fast forward and it’s all covered up now by a standard Dulux colour. I guess it made a good base coat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epsilonGreedy Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 14 hours ago, ProDave said: Then a kitchen and we move in........ @ProDave How do you feel right now Dave? Like a London Marathon runner sprinting up the final 500 yards of the Mall, high on endorphins with Buckingham Palace ahead and the crowds cheering or. Or a tired solo circumnavigation in the Western Approaches hoping to reach Plymouth but concerned you might get shipwrecked in Ireland if you fall asleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted June 13, 2018 Author Share Posted June 13, 2018 DEFINITELY No 2 The thing is, even id we move in by the end of the year, it will NOT be finished by a long way. There is the snug living room and utility room downstairs not even started. Small matter of no doors, door liners or skirting boards anywhere. And when the house is finished, still plenty to do outside. I think I still have Biscay to cross, on a stormy day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epsilonGreedy Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 6 minutes ago, ProDave said: DEFINITELY No 2 Oh dear, from my perspective you are in self-build Nirvana. You have a sustainable low cost life style living onsite in a mobile home, a weather tight house and a few loose ends to complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 13 hours ago, newhome said: We were told not to have solid oak with UFH so there is engineered oak here. Not sure if that's still the same thinking, but maybe not. Worth applying a reality check here as to why that advice is so often given. Flooring will get a lot hotter from the sun shining on it than it ever will from UFH in a house built with reasonably good insulation and airtightness. As an example, before we fitted the IR reflective window film I measured a floor temperature of 34 deg C, just from solar heating, but the UFH never, ever gets the floor warmer than 23 deg C, and most of the time runs at not much over 21 deg C. I think the concern about UFH and flooring stems from using it in older houses with poor insulation, where the UFH might be running at over 30 deg C, something that isn't going to be the case for any new build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhome Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 1 hour ago, JSHarris said: I think the concern about UFH and flooring stems from using it in older houses with poor insulation, where the UFH might be running at over 30 deg C, something that isn't going to be the case for any new build I guess one of the issues may be that the guarantee may be invalidated if you use any flooring with UFH if the manufacturer’s advice is not to do this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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