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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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Thanks DG
The 3 bed semis (and this detached) built in the 30s round here are about 75-85sqm.
That's roughly 750 to 850 sq feet? Seems quite small for 3 bed, to me....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Do you live in buckingham palace. - 5 beds at 5mx5m each which is pretty large is only 125sqm add say 50sqm for bathrooms and landing and a second floor the same size and you have a huge 5 bed at 350sqm. This one is about 150sqm. but I would say it is as small as you could go for 5 beds.
My parents' London house is a large family house, but not a mansion. 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, extra loo, kitchen, living room, sitting room, dining room, downstairs study, cellar, boxroom and linen cupboard (no windows in either). Large hall on the ground floor and landing upstairs.
That's about 420 sq m / 4,500 sq feet, I think....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Well you get 2 bedrooms about 12x10, one about 10x7, a bathroom about 9x6, small landing, entrance hall, 2 receptions about 12x11 and a kitchen about 10x6. Probably a little larger than most new builds.
Yes this is more recent, 69sqm for a 3 bedneverdespairgirl wrote: »That's roughly 750 to 850 sq feet? Seems quite small for 3 bed, to me.I think....0 -
In our new flat, the entrance hall, bedrooms and bathrooms total about 650 sq. ft, and the upstairs is the same size, all one large room. The bedrooms are 12 x 13, 12 x 13, and 12 x 10....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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I've just realised half the posters/lurkers here won't understand a word I've said! Prestel, BBC Micro, teletext, cassette! :rotfl:
My first modem was 300 baud duplex (roughly 30 characters per second each way because of the overhead for control signals and checksums). The alternative standard was 1200/75, which gave 4 times the download speed (120 chars/s), but only a quarter of the upload speed.
Prestel was used extensively by the financial services and travel industries. It worked okay as a text based service with a download speed of 120 characters a second. Information providers just kept the pages very simple. There were no graphics, just some pseudo graphics, using some extra text characters that printed various graphic shapes.
That was still in use well into the 90's, although modem speeds were higher by then. 56k baud was about the best you could get.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Thanks DG
The 3 bed semis (and this detached) built in the 30s round here are about 75-85sqm. The new build estate '5 bed detached' are about 150 with some of that being in the eves as it is over 3 floors. When you calc floor area is it just footprint x no floors or do you adjust for stair wells etc?
Wood to be waxed/varnished/painted is just standard knotty pine.
footprint x floors, yes. If you build up to the 3rd floor, you'd need to recalculate again. There's some guidance on how much building into the loft space costs on that link. For planning purposes, the distance of habitable rooms facing those of neighbouring houses increases. Round here you'd need 27 metres between houses front to back.
If you are painting it then MDF skirting will be better. It doesn't twist and it will never knot because there are none. I'm not a fan of pine so personal choice opts for painted MDF.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Doozergirl wrote: »footprint x floors, yes. If you build up to the 3rd floor, you'd need to recalculate again. There's some guidance on how much building into the loft space costs on that link. For planning purposes, the distance of habitable rooms facing those of neighbouring houses increases. Round here you'd need 27 metres between houses front to back.
If you are painting it then MDF skirting will be better. It doesn't twist and it will never knot because there are none. I'm not a fan of pine so personal choice opts for painted MDF.
External footprint, is that right?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
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