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Finishing the dry lining | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Finishing the dry lining. Written May 31, 2013 by Nick Prior. Hand finishing the lined walls. Just the job for a hot spring day! We had an inkling that there was trouble ahead when Johnny donned his industrial strength mask with filters and a layer of finely sanded cement started to cover all the flat surfaces going. A long, hot, dry, dusty day. But the results were stunning:. July 12, 2014.

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External blockwork | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Written June 9, 2013 by Nick Prior. Block work on the back wall round the kitchen window. First job – clear the the foundations and place the lintels. Then, remarkably quickly, walls start to appear. Setting blocks right up to the window frames. Marshall working tight in amongst the scaffolding. Wall ties every 600 millimetres, in every other course of blocks. Laquo; Previous Post. Would b...

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And they all lived happily ever after | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. And they all lived happily ever after. Written July 12, 2014 by Nick Prior. So, a year on and how did we do? Around the time of my last post everything was hotting up with Stan’s building team putting the effort to get us in for the end of July, and with us moving house from Manchester for the final time. Not a lot of time then for blog posts. Jennifer Duxbury liked this post. Click here t...

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Finishes – a sneak preview | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Finishes – a sneak preview. Written June 21, 2013 by Nick Prior. Just to show it’s not all concrete and drains, here’s a couple of pictures of nice things! For areas where we’re tiling, we’re planning matt white tiles with a stripy slate mosaic strip at about shoulder height. (What’s shoulder height? Laquo; Previous Post. Next Post ». 3 Responses to Finishes – a sneak preview. July 12, 2014.

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Fitting the solar panels | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Fitting the solar panels. Written June 5, 2013 by Nick Prior. After a couple of weeks of mainly internal work, a small army of folk descended on the house this Monday. Joiners, bricklayers and roofers, but what I wanted most to see going in were the solar panels. You may recall from the story of our roofing that we have a traditional Scottish roof where a layer of sarking boards (planks to...

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Lintels | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Written June 21, 2013 by Nick Prior. Checking the garage door opening before lifting the lintels in. Anywhere there’s an opening in the walls, there’s got to be a lintel to take the weight of the wall above. The lintels for the house though are relatively small with only a couple of 8 foot monsters to deal with. The garage though – that’s a different story. But before we can do much more, ...

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Progressing steadily | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Written May 9, 2013 by Nick Prior. Partitions in the roof. Like floors and other fripperies. Block work for the garage. Meantime, other things have been happening. The block work for the garage has gone up, and once Pete and Ali have done inside the house, they can move seamlessly on to putting the trusses on the garage ready for slating. Warmcel fibres getting pumped into the loft. Then o...

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How we started | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Written December 11, 2012 by Nick Prior. Our plot at Edenmouth. We often wonder how it was we decided to build a house! We’d been living in a pretty ordinary 4 bed detached house on a development on the edge of Oldham and now here we are, about to start building a beautiful, modern well-insulated house out in the countryside in the Scottish Borders. At some point, and we still can’t ...

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Dry lining the walls | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Dry lining the walls. Written May 23, 2013 by Nick Prior. Looking down into the hallway. You can see lines of screws and the places where the plasterboard meets. Then there are the places where two plasterboards meet – again, however close you put them, there are always going to be gaps to deal with. So George and Johnny turned up on Tuesday and got to work making the walls look good.

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Underfloor heating | Our New House

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Self builders Nick and Joyce and their new home. Useful magazines for self builders. Useful books for self builders. Written June 21, 2013 by Nick Prior. Now we’re getting to the really interesting part, the point of no return with the floor! Putting in the underfloor heating is a job involving three different teams from Stan’s building firm, and slowly (well, quite quickly really! The inside of the house takes on another guise. Pete getting stuck into laying the floor insulation boards. Here you can see...