Twiggs home project

[the_twigg]

Ok folks so I've got myself a new crib but she needs some major attention.

Here's a few pics from the brochure when we found it for sale.


PB links removed. Pics attached. Mod 2.

[the_twigg]

We've been here about four months now but work started a bit slow as I had to kind of repair our main car more due to its age but that's another story.

I got straight in the garage and gave it a quick lick of paint as well as building me a completely over complicated work bench so here's a few pics.

Please try not to take the p*ss to much I have much to learn lol
Garage full of junk from the move, not easy to work around but I had to manage at the time

And again. Mod 2.

[the_twigg]

Still have the garage floor to paint but other than that I'm moving indoors as I have a new addition to the family coming and wow it's growing fast at 16 weeks already.

Ive hammered it through the main bedroom and ensuite, at the time that we brought it it had half a shower unit, sink and toilet in.

I've tried to do most of the stuff myself but the only thing I've paid for so far is to have the ceiling plastered. I'm happy to learn but I didn't fancy my first try being a ceiling. The whole house has been wall papered in wood chip wall paper so it took two days to remove that, once the plastering was done I thought I'd get a tiled floor down.
Old plastered ceiling

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New plaster

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Fresh layer of paint and quickly fixed a light up to check height

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Old light position that I moved to the centre

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Old walls

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Manky sliding door

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New door casing in

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Nice new frame

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Walls all painted, towell rail in the replace radiator and floor in and grouted

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Wall now papered, switches on, lights all good and only have new door to fit and carpet

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More updates soon

[pjl83]

Great work so far. Looking good ;-)

[moderator2]

The_Twigg.

Please can you attach the pics to the thread rather than use Pb.

Many a thread on here has been rendered useless as a result of Pb moving pics, or the Poster deleting the Pb pics at a later date.

http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/attachment.htm

[the_twigg]

Thanks a lot folks I'm quite happy how things are going so far but loads to come.

Sorry about the pb links I shall attatch them correctly in the future

[the_twigg]

Nice work so far, I like the work bench top

[nick200]

Looks good so far, look forward to seeing more

[dandan]

Looks good.

Think my priorities are all wrong - my garage is the bottom of the list after the house and garden!

[the_twigg]

Thanks guys nice to have some good feedback it makes it all worth the effort.

Laugh out loud about starting the garage, after messing with cars for so long most of our freinds weren't surprised that I was straight in the garage.

The main problem was our cars suspension was worn and most of the bushes were shot so I quickly prepped the garage and got all my stuff cleaned up and ready and then got the at in the air. I spent two solid days removing all of the suspension, arms etc and replaced it all for new so we had a car working 100% so I could concentrate on the house

After my short break this week I'm looking forward to getting the carpet ordered and new door on its way. I'll be adding loads of pics but at the moment I'm trying to get my head around fitting a cassette Wood burning stove into our existing chimney, lots of research

[bean]

Let us know how that goes, might be doing one myself soon!

[the_twigg]

Will do bean