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17-10-2007, 18:49
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Loves the place
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Silkstone Common, Yorkshire, UK
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What a mess!
At the moment my garage looks like this...
 And these are the people responsible...  Only another week of this to go.  I think I'll have to get plastered. 
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17-10-2007, 18:53
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Loves the place
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Scotland
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Re: What a mess!
can i just point out that your garage is bigger than my hoose! lolol
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17-10-2007, 18:58
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Pixalo Crew
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: What a mess!
I recognise that membrane ...had it in basement in previous house. So do I assume your garage is built in to a hill side ? What are converting room in to ?
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17-10-2007, 19:01
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Pixalo Crew
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: An Englishman living in Germany
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Re: What a mess!
Never trust a plasterer with more on his clothes than on the walls/ceilings
 BTW it looks like a prime space to have a bowling alley that, you know it makes sense
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17-10-2007, 19:24
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Pixalo Crew
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: N. Ireland
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Re: What a mess!
Looks like a potential Home Cinema nirvana to me
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17-10-2007, 19:44
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Pixalo Crew
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Peak District
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Re: What a mess!
You sure they've got that membrane the right side of the wall?
 Happened to my parents - ground floor wall had to be dismantled and rebuilt - on the brand new 'finished' building! |
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17-10-2007, 20:34
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Loves the place
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Silkstone Common, Yorkshire, UK
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Re: What a mess!
It's a very long story but yes, the house is built into a hill and the basement has the garage at the front. At the back are three rooms like this...
 ... plus two smaller ones. And at the front on the other side is this...  ... which was my office and will be again once the work is done. On 25 June the groundwater table built up at the back and came through the wall/floor joint. This was a nuisance because there was a false timber floor, so everything had to be shifted out and the timber floor removed. Then a cavity membrane system was installed on the walls and floors, with channels cut through the concrete slab to connect to an external drain, so if any water does get in again it is isolated from the inner skin and can drain away harmlessly. We hope. So last week 15 tonne of screed was laid on top of the floor membrane, and this week the walls are being plastered. Then we can finish off the timberwork and flooring, and with luck it will all be done for Christmas. It's then a choice between having a photographic studio or the mother of all model railways.  Sorry, I said it was a long story.
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17-10-2007, 20:49
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Pixalo Crew
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Re: What a mess!
Looking better Silkstone
It'll all be worth it in the end.
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17-10-2007, 20:54
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Re: What a mess!
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17-10-2007, 20:59
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17-10-2007, 21:18
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Loves the place
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Silkstone Common, Yorkshire, UK
Posts: 4,094
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Re: What a mess!
I'll need the models to go with it.
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