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Sweethunai

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The rendering is being done today and then hopefully the scaffolding will come down tomorrow

I'm starting to thing about what to put down for the bathroom flooring. Any ideas about that? I was thinking about just having a decent quality cushioned vinyl but am open to ideas
 
Well the scaffolding is going up all around the bungalow ready for my loft extension. There's no backing out now - it's both exciting and frightening at the same time

The whole roof has to come off on Wednesday and a new one 3 ft higher and with a steeper pitch put on hopefully on Thursday (weather permitting). I'll be having 2 dormers on the front and 1 large one on the back.

I'll try and post some photos as it progresses, assuming I stay sane throughout it all
 
Is it on ground or 1st floor? If it's on 1st floor that rules ceramic tiling, too much flex even if you spend a lot getting stable base, it'll still flex too much.

Looked into natural and engineered products (solid baraboo or laminate) decided on vinyl tiling. Cheap, water resistant. Replaced floorboarRAB small area so not expensive, then plywood board on top then vinyl tiling (wood effect boarRAB)
 
wow, making your roof higher? Detached I guess.

I wish they'd make that simpler - we're surrounded by massive 3 storey 'townhouses' (tall terraced..) which are way higher than our house, but as we're at the end of a terrace I don't think we can raise the roof, and our loft is very limited for space.

Odd as you can usually extend out the front or back affecting party walls etc. Don't know why roofs are any different..
 
God why isn't anything ever straight forward! The neigrabroadour who shares my drive has been OK about the builders using his side of the drive for working on apart from the second day when they didn't leave him a path to walk down. That all seems to be sorted now and as they are using materials up, there's more room available on my side.

I've just received a text from the neigrabroadour saying that they had to take their kitten to the vet to be have a course of antibiotics as she'd been sick a few times around the house and finally vomited up some of the insulation that had blown out the top of the walls when the roof was taken off. It was all accidental , it just got very gusty all of a sudden and the little bits of insulation that had been blown into the cavity when it was first built got scattered all over.

He did mention at the time that he was worried about his cat eating them but said at the weekend that it seemed to be leaving it alone. Now he's asked me to tell the builder he wants worRAB about it as it's cost him money and time.
 
Yes mine's a detached bungalow and on one side there's a house, a bungalow the other side of me and there's houses front and back. So the only real problem might have been the bungalow next door, but that has a carport all down the side which already blocks the light and the lady is really nice and not bothered what I do

It's started to get quite windy now so I'll be panicking about them craning the new rafters on Thursday. I wonder if my house insurance covers me for damage to the property whilst work is being done on it?
 
You'll have a much better vantage point from which to snipe your noisy neigrabroadours too!

By the way, I have a detached bungalow too and have just expanded outward, do you mind me asking the approx. cost of building upward please? Our builder said it would not cost too much and said the roof beams would only come to £3k and most of the cost was boarding up the floor and walls etc. Roof tiles could be reused etc.
 
Touch wood the noisy gits have only been noisy once this year, which is a blessing

My loft extension is not straight forward as the whole of the roof has to be removed and scrapped as it's very shallow and there's cross beams all over the place. I'm having a bathroom up there as well as 2 bedrooms (if space permits as I'm still not sure what it will look like up there when done!).

I've been told that it should all be done for 25K. If it were a straight forward loft conversion it would probably have been half that.
 
Yes I don't want to be arsey back to him as we need to use his side of the drive for a while yet (whilst they are out at work). But I will be if I have to be. It could have got that insulation from any garden nearby as it was unfortunately spread around a bit. It was impossible to get it all cleaned up as you can imagine!
 
Difficult call, you want to keep them happy without them walking all over you...

But from their point of view the cat getting sick was your builders fault...

Why can't it be straight forward
 
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The builder who's doing it for me is the brother of my mate who I've known since school and he's done extensions for many other of my mates as well so I know I can trust him

Unfortunately I have to have a rafter running front to back right down the middle. This won't matter on the front as there's 2 separate dormers there but it will split the back one in 2. It will just have to be an "interesting feature" of the back room

I could have gone to a specialist structural engineer to see if they could design a roof that could cope without a middle rafter but that would have added lots of cost and time. The rafter also has to support the floor of the upstairs as there are no supporting walls in this place (apart from the round the sides obviously)
 
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