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Behemoth
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...roof comes off tomorrow. Apart from immediate rain it's 6 months of builder, leccies, plumbing, teeth sucking and nailing jelly to a wall.  |
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sean
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Location: North Devon
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Good luck with it. My parents had major stuff done on our house (new roof and things) when I was about twelve. Looking back I wonder how my mother stayed sane. Sorry, that's not very encouraging is it?
Mary-Jane and Gervase may have some more helpful advice. |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 09 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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I have the advantage of not living there. It's the not being on the spot, in charge, I can do that, that will send me potty. |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 09 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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"Yes, yes we will be on site tomorrow..."  |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 09 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Spent today removing a ceiling and stud walls in the attic so we can insulate. 120 years of soot and dust. I looked like a miner. Found a dinky little half pint milk bottles from the 1920's. |
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Mary-Jane
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: Ceredigion, West Wales
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| Posted: Tue May 05, 09 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| sean wrote: |
| Mary-Jane and Gervase may have some more helpful advice. |
1. Accept that it's going to be an utter mess and that you'll have to live with it. Don't try and fight it or you will have a coronary;
2. Live with the bare minimum of 'things' for the next few weeks - pack everything else up in boxes and bags and put them in storage/in the garage/at the inlaw's house/garden shed - if you don't they'll get damaged, full of dust and possibly broken;
3. Try to fully comprehend that builders' dust and dirt gets everywhere - so take action to try and keep it down by covering everything that cannot be moved with dust sheets or seal it into plastic during the day - you can always take the dust sheets down in the evening;
4. Pack away most of your clothes, save for the few that you 'need'. Ditto soft furnishings etc. IKEA do the most wonderful zip-up clear plastic storage bags in different sizes which are terrific for bedding, soft furnishings, clothes etc;
5. Be patient with the builders - but do lay down a few ground rules from the outset with the foreman about tramping through the house, using the lavatory, making tea & coffee and eating lunch in and around your house;
6. Discuss keeping the site as tidy as possible with the foreman - in particular, tidying up at the end of the day. Think about what your reasonable expectations are of this;
7. Always communicate with all the builders and spend time each day walking around the site with the foreman keeping up to speed with what's happening and raising any queires you may have;
8. If you are unhappy/unsure about anything at all, make sure you address it with the foreman as soon as possible.
Hope this helps. No doubt Gervase will have some more comments to add...
Good luck! |
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Behemoth
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Location: Leeds
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| Posted: Tue May 05, 09 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Thanks - living there isn't an issue. So far I've been impressed with their tidiness. |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 09 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Behemoth wrote: |
| So far I've been impressed with their tidiness. |
Unlike me who pulled some old ceilings down. A hundred years of soot and dust. No insulation! But there will be.
Still feel like I need to sluice my tear ducts free of soot.
So far things are going OK. |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds
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Aren't planing officers weird.
The cheeks of the original dorma window were overpainted lead, very tatty. The planning conditions specified painted wood, which we queried at the time as I wanted lead and no other property in the area has timber cladding, but didn't challenge it. Lead prices have gone through the roof and when the roofers did the GRP roof, without asking they did the cheeks as well. All in 'lead grey'. From the ground it's hard to tell what the material is. Looks good, maintenance free and was cheap to install. The planners now want it changed to painted wood or slated. I don't like slated sides on dormas. When questioned the planing officer said that marine grade ply wood would be acceptable, which I could then paint lead grey, so that from the ground you could't tell the difference between that and the GRP or lead. Hmmmm. Further talks to be had. |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 09 9:03 am Post subject: |
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Have fun |
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Behemoth
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Location: Leeds
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Relatively smooth ride but we;re getting there. Got the Ifo toilets, loads of insualtion, stripped out the attic ceilings, dirty dusty work, but run into a cosmetic hitch for the extension, the architect has left it to the builder to get 'bricks to match', well he got the right size (80mm so a bit not standard) unfortunately a totally different colour. Didn't get on site for two days, a bit of a step back is coming. |
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tahir
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Location: Essex
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Bum, bit poor from the architect. |
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Behemoth
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Location: Leeds
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 09 8:21 am Post subject: |
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Very. We shall have words. |
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tahir
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Location: Essex
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 09 8:22 am Post subject: |
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I'd check that there isn't anything else similarly loose in the spec. |
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Behemoth
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Location: Leeds
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