Filling in the blanks... part due

July 2014, we were now frantically getting ready to move in. All the major works on the house were completed but it is amazing how much time the finishing (and preparing to finish) takes. July seemed to be a really good month for progress, with very visible things happening. 

Starting with the upstairs bathroom. After watching the dry lining being done I decided that I would have a go myself in the upstairs bathroom and made the frame, fixed the plasterboard and tape and jointed. At best it would look alright and at worst it was in the back of the bathroom so wouldn't matter anyway! I don't think it ended up too bad and we have another useful little storage box. 

A bit messy but looks OK, pipe work boxed in

Bathroom floor down ready for painting and tiling

Oak shelf, cut, fitted, oiled and ready for the bathroom suite and radiator 

Tiling taking shape

Reclaimed toiled and sink plumbed in and fitted. Radiator sat on the oak shelf.

Bathroom feature wall

Josh's room all cleaned up and ready for underlay and floorboards to go down.

Nearly there, last couple of boards and Josh room floor will be done

Engineered oak flooring in Olivias room , starting to look like a home upstairs

We've put the same engineered flooring through the upstairs rooms 

While the upstairs progressed, downstairs the Oak architrave and skirting boards also were being fitted. The oak was sourced from a local timber yard just down the road in Mortimers Cross (Good Brothers). We used them for quite a bit of the internal oak finishes as I found them very helpful and the timescales they were able to turn around orders also suited our build. I also hadn't forgotten how they managed to turn around the door linings within a couple of days earlier in the build, which meant the plaster boarding wasn't delayed. 

Oak architrave and skirting boards downstairs

Mitred joints and screw and plug fixing

Caps ready to fill the holes in the oak

Oak ledge doors hung

The quartze worktop supplied and installed by Fontoura in Leominster. Just 7 days from the templating the worktop was installed and the kitchen started to feel like a useable space. 

While the inside progressed a lot was happening on the outside as well.

The sceptic tank - we now have somewhere for the waste to go, which is the last thing that would enable us to move in. 

 Lighting up the oak and sitting area outside the french doors. When we have time for BBQs!

Outside lights by the front and rear doors. A bargain of the interweb. 

Really happy with the Lindab galvanised steel guttering, especially against the roof tiles and grey timber cladding. 

Thats it for now, thanks for looking! Tim 

Filling in the blanks... part uno

I am going to use the next couple of blogs to fill in some of the blanks I missed to write about when we were in the throws of the finishing the house off. We simply didn't have enough time to write properly, but I made some notes and took some photos along the way so I could come back to it later (well now really).

The first of the missing blogs is June 2014. We started to make some progress downstairs that made it feel more like a house than a shell. With the electrics and plumbing first fix sorted, the tiles on the floor we were able to fit the kitchen and the delay in the floor tiles meant that we were able to use the time for Stan Stones to tile the shower room. I fitted most of the kitchen myself, very therapeutic when it goes to plan...

The kitchen has finally been moved into the right part of the house, while we start to assemble units before moving them out of the way to start fitting the units.

 The first and most difficult unit on the who kitchen is put into position and fixed

 Washing machine & dishwasher spaced as the other units go in

We have the bare bones of a kitchen

 The shower room tiling is well under way, with the glass tiles forming the back wall of the shower

Holes in the wall, sealed and tiled

Tiles grouted and ready for the shower, screen, toilet and sink

While the downstairs moves on, Fliss and Mum wallpapered Josh' bedroom

Thanks, for reading the next blog will be soon!