• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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Hi chaps

I signed up years ago but couldn't remember my details so there was no way of resetting. I take a look round the forum from time to time to see what's going on. I'm also a member of UKW so recognise a lot of names here.

Just read the latest installment of Roger's renovation saga and can sympathise as I've been working on my own house part time for the last two years and 19 days. No enjoyment any more, only neverending drudgery...

This seems a decent place, so I hope to learn from the collected wisdom and contribute where I can.

Cheers,
Mark
 
Welcome Mark.

What sort of house? I've been plodding on with mine (there's a small thread here somewhere) for 3 years now. I'm still full of enthusiasm, just a tad short of time!
 
Hi Mark,

I’m presently trying to get planning permission for another extension I find getting the planning takes longer than the job :evil: Put some photos up of your renovation it’s always interesting to see what folks are doing.

Welcome along btw
 
Hello and welcome :)

your house sounds like how I feel when asked to do yet more decorating when I'd rather do something else. All becomes a chore. Hope it gets more interesting for you soon.
 
Afternoon,

The house is a hotchpotch of 250-year-old stone collier's cottage which has been (badly) extended four times, so it's now a five bedroom house. It's situated in a valley, in Wales, with a stream nearby, so damp was a major problem which we seem to have rectified by pushing back the ground, installing good drainage and lime rendering the walls.

I'm able to turn my hand to most things, but there were some jobs we had to pay for, and that's were all the issues arose. We never automatically go for the cheapest quote; always the tradesmen who seem the most competent, the most knowledgeable and with decent references; however in practice the majority were equally terrible. That's were much of the time's gone - making good the mess they left behind, or overcoming problems later on which simply shouldn't exist when they had a blank canvas with which to work on. I can wholeheartedly recommend only two trades out of the twelve we used, and ironically they were both jobs I would have enjoyed doing myself, but time constraints meant we had to pay for them to be done - fitting two woodburners and operating the mini digger when renewing the drains.

All the structural work is complete. Internally I have two more bathrooms to tile and plumb; a kitchen and utility to fit; doors, skirting and architraves throughout; umpteen fiddly fancy lights to wire; and a whole load of cheap solid oak flooring to go down after I grind up the shocking self levelling floor and redo it myself. That will keep me busy until spring, then I'll replace the garage roof, re-tile porch and hack off most of the external walls ready for lime rendering. Then I visit a chiropractor to sort out my back!

Off to Toolstation now for plumbing supplies.

Cheers,
Mark
 
Hi
I feel for on the rennovation front, I'm toward the end of sorting out a badly bodged farmhouse before I start on the neighbouring house. It is pretty grinding sometimes.
 
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