First-time house renovation

jamtart6

stolt your garden looks fab!! is the grass actually turf? it looks like a big green carpet!

ooh we're doing ok, almost 100% painted but all the little jobs are building up, time is ticking as the wedding grows ever closer. We are rapidly running out of pennies too and feeling sorry for ourselves - we've spent the money on the horrid jobs (like heating) that you can't even see and now we have no pennies for the pretty bits! Never mind, could be worse of course!!

hope everyone else is well x

latecomer

jamtart6 wrote: »

We are rapidly running out of pennies too and feeling sorry for ourselves - we've spent the money on the horrid jobs (like heating)

Got to say to me thats a great thing to spend money on - far more useful than some nice decoration

ukmaggie45

Hi Folks,

Shed arrived yesterday morning at 8.30, they'd finished putting it up by 9.30!



Our next door neighbour loves it - she came over to inspect, and said "If I had a shed like that I'd sleep in it!"

stolt

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Hi Folks,

Shed arrived yesterday morning at 8.30, they'd finished putting it up by 9.30!



Our next door neighbour loves it - she came over to inspect, and said "If I had a shed like that I'd sleep in it!"

thats a nice shed maggie, very quick time to put a shed up aswell, i remember me the missus struggling with the kids playhouse last year.
Hope everyone has a good day/weekend, its another weekend in the garden for me, my mate coming round to wire up the armoured cable for outdoor sockets (he told me what wire to buy and i buried it last weekend, he now tells me in the week i need two armoured cables (one for the lights one for the sockets) so i'm going to have to pull the grass up today and bury another!!!! , and ive got to still fit the grass, fill gabions and new flower beds with soil. Had 5 ton delivered last night and a ton of cobbles for the gabions. First got to take the girls swimming and there all upset because there goldfish died last night although the youngest was straight onto me - can we get another one?;)

stolt

evening,,, just sitting here with a cider, back hurting, didnt get quite as much as i should have done today, gabions took longer than we thought but they are in but still need filling with cobbles but thats a job tomorrow. Used vable ties in the end to make them and that was alot easier and quicker than the metal clips i was using before (still got to cut them down) I wanted to fill the beds but at 7pm i just had to give in. Will start early tomorrow so should get it all done. Me and wife got the final bit of grass in and glued down, wasnt that hard just helps when you have a few of you to get the grass into position. Have alook how much bark i got from a local farmer

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£40.00 delivered!!! god knows what i'm going to do with it all!!!

andrew-b

Nice deal on the bark stolt...i'd bag out what you don't use and leave a sign by the gate with a price per bag!

Yesterday i spent ages putting up the gazebo and attaching some netting around it along with a dog pen to fence off an area from the dog to treat some timbers and decking tiles. Takes about 2 days for my wood preserver to fully dry so needed a covered dog-proof area. Looks very heath robinson..!!

Will take the whole lot down in a few days though. Will probably buy some of the orange mesh fencing used for roadworks etc for when it comes to treating the shed as the netting was far too time consuming to dog proof.

Also cut up some timber that will go around the lawn side and far side of the shed base and treated it all with wickes shed and fence preserver - good stuff and not far off creosote ...good old decent high VOCs! Going to use the same on the decking tiles today ..not really designed for the job but as i see it wood preserver is wood preserver and no need to worry about colour matching.

The decking tiles are being used for the "flowerbed" area between shed and patio..a relatively expensive way of covering the area but quick and easy. We will have potted plants on it and maybe a bench or some other feature. As i had a few inches to spare between deck tiles and shed base, i decided to move the shed base to close the gap..which meant removing the whole lot and redoing. At the same time i repositioned the weed membrane underneath so it would cover under the deck tiles.

Well must go get on..

Plasterer

Spent a few days saving my rented property wall using traditional lime methods what do you think?

stolt

well suppose to start again this morning, and pouring rain, glorious sunshine yesterday and i'm sure i heard on the news that today was going to be the hottest day of the year so far!! when am i going to stop listening to weather men!

andrew - coming along there, i wanted to use those decking tiles in a previous house but as the area was quite large it would have cost alot to do it..

plasterer - wall looks good .

Plasterer

stolt wrote: »

well suppose to start again this morning, and pouring rain, glorious sunshine yesterday and i'm sure i heard on the news that today was going to be the hottest day of the year so far!! when am i going to stop listening to weather men!

andrew - coming along there, i wanted to use those decking tiles in a previous house but as the area was quite large it would have cost alot to do it..

plasterer - wall looks good .

Thanks Stolt, just out of interestwhat was the cost of your artificial turf per square metre?

Shimmyhill

Hi folks, long time no update !

Lots is happening all at once (always the way, ages of nothing and then chaos) We have stripped the woodchip from the dining room and repaired the plaster behind it - was a big job as there must have been a picture rail at some point so very uneven plaster hidden by the woodchip !! The dining room is all painted and looking good, well apart from the removed skirting - engineered wood flooring being fitted on friday but new furniture delivered tomorrow (oops)

On 4th May new combi boiler goes in and old tanks out - have been waiitng on this for months and has held up everything really. Revcently had the electrics redone and even insulated the loft after having the insulation in the garage for a year !! Its not all done as the area where the gas man will be removing tanks etc is not insulated for obv reasons.

I have been following the thread off and on and some great progress being made, good to see the pics and i will have to get some up soon !