House build

[KevF]

Well the house renovation and extension is coming along. Seems to have been for ever but external brick/block work is up to roof plate height. This has been haphazzard due to the rain over the last week or so.

Sorting out windows for the extension soon along with the new doors.

Today I will mostly be visiting reclaimation yards looking for floorboards to replace the old rotten ones we had to pull up in one room.
Hopefully be in by end of August, fingers crossed with just decorating to do. Once finished I should have some free time again to be able to enjoy a bit of enthusiastic motoring. Had to make do with riding the bobber and the diseasel is really starting to grate on my nerves.LOL

kev

[deVAS]

Thanks for that......Interesting.....

[KevF]

deVAS said:

Thanks for that......Interesting.....

Didn't make you read it

With your low post count, it is understandable. I have had a few PH'ers message me asking how things were going due to being 'off-grid' for a while

Hopefully something more deserving of PH will be around soon so I will be able to get back out and join the PHEA runs over the Summer.

But thanks for your interest...

[deVAS]

KevF said:

Didn't make you read it

With your low post count, it is understandable. I have had a few PH'ers message me asking how things were going due to being 'off-grid' for a while

Hopefully something more deserving of PH will be around soon so I will be able to get back out and join the PHEA runs over the Summer.

But thanks for your interest...

No you didnt, but i naturally assumed that posts were put on to be read.! Whats understandable about my low post count? Yes i am a relatively new member to pistonheads but we all have to start somewhere, anyway i believe in quality not quantity as with your high count.

[crisp500]

Be great seeing you about again Kev, bet you miss the c63 something stupid! Was hoping to catch a couple of meets myself this year but with another nipper on the way.... Doh! Glad the house is coming on well, know how much of a stress it can be! All the best, h

Edited by crisp500 on Friday 30th May 18:34

[digger the goat]

deVAS said:

No you didnt, but i naturally assumed that posts were put on to be read.! Whats understandable about my low post count? Yes i am a relatively new member to pistonheads but we all have to start somewhere, anyway i believe in quality not quantity as with your high count.

Thanks for your input.
See you around !!

[deVAS]

digger the goat said:

Thanks for your input.
See you around !!

Hopefully you will..I do intend on coming to some meets so will look out for you. Thats another post i've just clocked up.Would still like to know whats understandable about having a low post count though!!!!!

[rangie999]

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[texaxile]

Hi,
If you can suggest any decent reclaim yards in the East Suffolk area it would be appreciated.

Cheers
Pete

[digger the goat]

I certainly can.. ( more mid suff though) These are 2 that I use
You can try Abbotsbridge reclaimation nr Cockfield ( between Bury st Eds and Sudbury )
http://abbotsbridge.com/contact-us-a-location

There is also one near Needham Market.. Cobar..


http://www.radisol.co.uk/reclaimed-building-materi...

What is you are after ?

[KevF]

texaxile said:

Hi,
If you can suggest any decent reclaim yards in the East Suffolk area it would be appreciated.

Cheers
Pete

Pete,
Havent ventured into East Suffolk. The ones we have used have been Mongers in Hingham (expensive but can seem to get the hard to find pieces, Womacks in Bunwell and also Norfolk Reclaimation in Panxworth.

Womacks is the old style rummage around yourself then haggle kinda place. We have bought quite a few bits from him.

Recycling some of our stuff. got 200 9x9 pamments (2 inches think)left now.

What are you looking for in particular, I may of seen it on my travels...LOL

[KevF]

crisp500 said:

Be great seeing you about again Kev, bet you miss the c63 something stupid! Was hoping to catch a couple of meets myself this year but with another nipper on the way.... Doh! Glad the house is coming on well, know how much of a stress it can be! All the best, h

Edited by crisp500 on Friday 30th May 18:34

Mate, REALLY miss the C63...well not necessarily the car but the noise and power....the diseasel just doesnt cut it really.
To be honest, work is keeping me away form the house during the week, but on Sundays Ive been doing what I can around the builders. Scotty doing a good job but the weather prevented too much brick/block work being done.

Hopefully roof trusses being delivered beginning in 8 days time, so should really see a difference.

Good luck with the new edition, when is the due date?

[developer]

I'm interested - are there any photos posted?

[slippery]

Looking forward to seeing and hearing what you get next Kev. I too am on a bit of a mission with a new (to me) property. Two months in it's lots of re-wiring, about 40 new windows, two new staircases, a new bathroom, a raised floor, relocated loft hatch, upgraded heating system and loads of decorating! I'm in the dog-house because I told Mrs S that we should buy it as we could move straight into it without doing anything to it, but I do like to tinker!

[texaxile]

Kev and Digger,

Sorry for the late reply & thanks for the heads up, I'll drag my Dad along and make a trip and a day of it sometime this week hopefully.

I'm after some Soft Suffolk Reds (approx 800)for a wall, and a replacement period (1920's) fireplace for a bedroom and some specific design picture rail.

I will also be after some floorboards later on, the one's I'm replacing (on behalf of my Parents) are currently covered in "schlack" I think it's called (or what I've been told it is), the old black tar like paint they used floorboards way back when, plus a few of them have been cut about. It has been suggested that I could use a belt sander to bring the floor up, which is something else I'll need advice on...

Cheers
Pete

Edited by texaxile on Monday 2nd June 20:30

[crisp500]

KevF said:

Mate, REALLY miss the C63...well not necessarily the car but the noise and power....the diseasel just doesnt cut it really.
To be honest, work is keeping me away form the house during the week, but on Sundays Ive been doing what I can around the builders. Scotty doing a good job but the weather prevented too much brick/block work being done.

Hopefully roof trusses being delivered beginning in 8 days time, so should really see a difference.

Good luck with the new edition, when is the due date?

22nd September, so I've got to get the Tiv out before that. Scotty's itching to get out in it, reckons he'll even help me clean it before hand. Good old boy

[digger the goat]

Pete...
Pretty reasonable price ( I sell them for this when I get a few. )

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RECLAIMED-SOFT-RED-BRICK...

As for sanding your boards, I think you will be spending a lot of time and money(on sanding belts and discs). Not to mention stress, replacing them every few minutes.

You try a sample area with a really course belt first but I fear that the problem will be that the heat generated will burn the schlack and it will melt into the sand paper. It will then 'glass over' and render the sand paper useless and/or snap due to heat.

If you CAN get through the main layer, you may fare better.
An alternative is to remove the boards and plane/ thickness them. Or remove and replace with reclaimed boards.

I don't have a floor sander but can help out via various accounts (+kevf )

Edited by digger the goat on Monday 2nd June 22:19