Tag: House
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Gutting the kitchen, ensuite
The membrane that was down in the kitchen appeared to have been sweating the floor, and transmitting moisture from the edges towards the centre. With it lifted up out of the way, it’s become very evident that the slab itself is lovely and dry, it’s just the channel between the slab and the walls that…
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Deconstructing bedroom 3
After I left on Friday, the builders got on with making things go away. With the mouldy and damp plasterboard removed, it becomes clearer that remodelling the room could work out quite well. The shower wall turns into a door that opens inwards and left, and the existing door is turned into a wall. Replace…
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It’s a swimming pool
We took up a plank of the engineered floor in the kitchen today, to conduct some archaeology and work out how everything is put together. With the plank up, we folded the membrane back to look at the concrete underneath, and the water ran off the membrane underside in rivulets. Bugger. We have two options…
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Stripped kitchen, stripping ensuite
Progress of sorts. Kitchen wet wall has been stripped back to the bare concrete blocks. It looks like the plaster and insulation might have been resting directly on soil instead of on a waterproof base – will be confirming that today with the builder. A bit of archaeology says that I’ve got an engineered wood…
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The saga of doom continues
Ensuite The third bedroom has been stripped and re-rendered with sand/cement scratch. When this was happening, some tiles fell off the wall in the ensuite bathroom, revealing that behind the tiling is black mould of some sort. How it’s growing behind the tiles is beyond me. The Saniflow macerator also decided to have conniptions, leaking…
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Every single time I think we’re making progress…
Well, we are making progress on the house, but it feels like backwards progress some days. After looking at the back wall of the second bedroom on Friday gone, I told the builder to strip it back and thermal board it. Like other walls, it was covered in 20 – 30 mm of gypsum. Post-stripping,…
