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New House – Week 4 and 5

Well, another couple of weeks have passed by. And well… a lot of work has been done.

Starting with the biggest most obvious change – The wall between the kitchen and the dining room is now gone and held up by a nice big RSJ. And the change is huge and the advantages are immediately obvious. The room is now large and sweeping and a lot of light is shared between the rooms. The back door is all nice and blocked up, and with one other door being blocked up it allows us to really change the way the kitchen works for the better. basically, we’re going to change the direction of the kitchen, and we’ve adding an extra couple of walls to the kitchen to change the fact that it really only had 1 and a half walls for cabinets. Now, we have space for a very nice sized kitchen, and my plan for an American style fridge back to the fore!

Two other big jobs that have been on-going the last while have been the extra re-wiring, and re-plumbing. The re-wiring has been a focus of mine, cat5 going in everywhere and speaker cable and also, a better electrical system going in. We’re adding a large number of extra sockets, and moving a number of switches to allow the doors to open in a more room friendly manner. What the hell does that mean? Well, at the minute, the hinges meant that the doors have had to open into the room, and really into the space of the room. We wanted to change this around so that the doors open inwards but don’t impede on the living space, and while open will be parallel to the wall. This however means switching the light switches to the other wall, but this is not a big deal, and should open the rooms up a little more.

The re-plumbing has had the main focus of adding a gas fire in the living room, moving the gas boiler from the 3rd bedroom(while there, it could never really be considered a bedroom) to the kitchen, and upgrading the immersion heater. This work has essentially been finished, and looks excellent. The plumber will be back during the week to do tests on the piping to make sure everything is up to scratch, but we hope the work we’ve done will have added to the value of the house by making the third bedroom back into a third bedroom.

Another job that will aid us in decorating is the re-plastering of the house. That’s in full swing with upstairs complete apart from patching, and downstairs, all the plasterboard has been replaced in the ceilings. We’ve also had a couple of more window companies out for quotes. One company came out last Friday, we got the quote yesterday and the windows will be out next week which is really excellent news. One other job that’s high on the list of priorities is the fixing of a crack in the back wall, and although we’ve been told that someone is going to be doing this, we might have to get someone else if its not done soon as we can’t wait for a long time.

So how long have we left? Our builder and project manager says a couple of weeks, however walking around the house now, I’ll believe it when I see it.

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Tags: Back Door, Dining Room, Doors, Electrical System, Gas Boiler, Hell, Hinges, Light Switches, Living Room, Living Space, Plumber, Plumbing, Sized Kitchen, Sockets, Speaker Cable