RickyLee53
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Hello all.
I'm pretty new here, I visited to get information for speakers (mainly subs) for my living room as that's coming up on the refurb list.
In 2012 we decided to have an extension on the house. This has now turned into 3 extensions!
We lived in the house throughout, and other than brickwork I did everything (with the help of a friend at times, that part really helps, even if its just for motivation) We very little/no experience (apart from my garage I built with NO experience the year prior).
Unfortunately my pictures don't go back to the very start.
The garage
This is where the old flat roof extension had been knocked down
We had to remove 120 tonnes of rubble, the pics don't really show this.
Footings
That was close, (the lead water main was leaking) I decided to later replace this with MDPE
Footings for the second extension,
This shows the boarded up kitchen.
We had to use engineering bricks upto this point. (this is where we installed the damp course!) God knows why, you'd never get damp up at that level in the house anyway.
Taking shape
Where the bifold doors are going
Taking shape.
For some reason I have lost the pictures of all the roof etc going on.
Heres the type of thing you have to put up with. (this was the only way to get a shower) the old shower was fed from a pipe that went 30 meters around the house.
Heres the inside when we first knocked through.
Moving a door location,
I was really nervous at this point
All Acro's removed,
Downstairs toilet studded in.
Most of the cables run.
I'm pretty new here, I visited to get information for speakers (mainly subs) for my living room as that's coming up on the refurb list.
In 2012 we decided to have an extension on the house. This has now turned into 3 extensions!
We lived in the house throughout, and other than brickwork I did everything (with the help of a friend at times, that part really helps, even if its just for motivation) We very little/no experience (apart from my garage I built with NO experience the year prior).
Unfortunately my pictures don't go back to the very start.
The garage
This is where the old flat roof extension had been knocked down
We had to remove 120 tonnes of rubble, the pics don't really show this.
Footings
That was close, (the lead water main was leaking) I decided to later replace this with MDPE
Footings for the second extension,
This shows the boarded up kitchen.
We had to use engineering bricks upto this point. (this is where we installed the damp course!) God knows why, you'd never get damp up at that level in the house anyway.
Taking shape
Where the bifold doors are going
Taking shape.
For some reason I have lost the pictures of all the roof etc going on.
Heres the type of thing you have to put up with. (this was the only way to get a shower) the old shower was fed from a pipe that went 30 meters around the house.
Heres the inside when we first knocked through.
Moving a door location,
I was really nervous at this point
All Acro's removed,
Downstairs toilet studded in.
Most of the cables run.
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