Well as promised I've uploaded the photos to one of my server accounts and it will take a while to put all the links in place so please bear with me
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We started with the Bathroom, here you can see the 2 walls being built using bricks we had salvaged from an old chicken house
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Danny my Brother in Law doing his stuff, the wall is an "
L"
shape as it is using the gable end of the old kitchen and the wall of the summer kitchen to give it it's square shape if you know what I mean.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This is the passage through the door under the porch, the ceiling was made of hardboard and was warped and twisted so we pulled it down to replace with plasterboard.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]What use to be the kitchen also had a hardboard ceiling, this too was pulled down to replace with plasterboard.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The door in the picture is what would lead into the Bathroom we were building
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The Window in Place, bought from Praktika for around £35 double glazed
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The Drains going in, we opted for toilet top left Sink top Centre and Bath top Right, we also added a floor drain in the centre to simplify cleaning bathroom floor, the shower will be bottom left of the photo.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Unfortunately I took this photo after the wall to the left was demolished, the door straight ahead was the shower room, with a sink to the left just before the door, we were unsure if the wall directly ahead was a supporting wall for the beams so we left it in place until we checked out the attic, it turned out it wasn't so down it came.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The Concrete floor was laid in the Bathroom so we could arrange to get a civilised Loo installed Lol
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]We used a Thick Plastic sheeting for damp course membrane
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This is the gap we were eventually going to use to extend the Living Room, the wall on the right in between the buildings was to be demolished
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The old shower room wall demolished completely giving a nice big kitchen area off hand I believe its about 4 metres x 3.5 metres
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The Floor in the Kitchen had been wood, but we ripped it up to lay concrete, luckily there was a lot of hardcore below the wooden floor which saved us having to buy agregate
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]We had to raise the roof on the Kitchen to allow us to incorporate the roof on the Bathroom
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]We decided to remove the tiles completely and install a plastic sheeting under the tiles for added protection from the snow that would lay on the roof during the winter months.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This is a cat we took in back in March, she was scruffy, thin and in a sorry state, she was also pregnant, being a cat lover I couldn't see her suffering so our food bill increased by £9 pw on cat food Lol
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Within a couple of weeks she was the best fed cat in Oresh, lovely silky fur and waited at the door for us getting back in from renovating at 7pm every night Lol
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The View of the front of the summer kitchen once all the tiles had been removed
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The Soil removed from the Cesspit being dug on the lower plot of the garden
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]As you can see there was quite a lot of it.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The rubble is what was left from the wall that we removed in the summer kitchen after we had reclaimed the good bricks
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]New Timbers being put in place for the new roof
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The view of the main house
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]New Timbers in place viewed from bathroom, you can see how far we raised the roof by the gap in the gable end
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The Plastic sheet and the Latts in place ready for re-tiling using the original tiles
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The view of the rear of the roof over the kitchen before being retiled
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The view of the rear of the main house, the roof had corrugated asbestos which we removed, we used tiles off the old chicken house and barn to retile the rear
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The 2 Bulgarian Labourers we had Rumen &
Peter
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Danny Rolling his Ciggie
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Anna, a neighbour, also known as clerk of the works, she always wanted to know the inside and out of a fart !!!!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The inside wall of the bathroom finally finished
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Another view of the inside of the bathroom
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] This will be the doorway into the living room once the gable end is removed (You can just see the gable end through the doorway.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Kitchen units put in to roughly see whats what
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The tiling almost completed on the kitchen
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The connecting wall and the front roof on the kitchen completed
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Old wiring was ripped out to be replaced with new
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Suppports and beams in place ready for gable end to be demolished
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Gable end coming down to extend living room
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]View from Kitchen
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]View from Living Room
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Kitchen units starting to go in
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This is the view of the other house we have in oresh, we were living there whilst renovating my home, photo taken from neighbours garden
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Bathroom door and frame purchased from Praktika
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This steel door was purchased from Svishtov, 300 Lev including the locks and frame etc, and includes a button in the handle which when pressed lights up the key hole
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The roof on the main house needs to be modified to make it overlap where we have joined the buildings together
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Bathroom door &
frame in place
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The tiles on the main roof now removed
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Asbestos sheets being removed
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]New door for main house again it was only 300 Lev same as kitchen door
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Starting to alter roof of main house
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Replacing timbers where necessary
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Plastic sheeting under all the tiles for added protection
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Tiles back on the roof
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Bathroom tiles starting to go on, I lost the will to live before I finished it Lol
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Where the shower will be
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The bath will be here
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The tiles almost completed on the rear of the house
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]You can see where we modified the roof
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The shower now installed and ready to use 3 1\2 weeks after we started
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Toilet now installed Yeaahhhhh no more squatting over a hole Lol
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The steps going into the living room from the kitchen
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The rear of the roof now finished
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]A Temporary board over he entrance into the attic to reach the boiler, we plan to raise the stonework of the old barn a couple of feet and put a flat roof on it, and make a patio above ground and a laundry room downstairs.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The outside starting to take shape
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]View from the road
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Bathroom wall tiled
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Kitchen view of living room and bathroom entrances
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]This used to be the kitchen in the main house, we decided to erect a stud wall and make it into a bedroom giving 3 bedrooms in total
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Danny getting his walls straight ready for plasterboard to go on living room walls
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]There are still a lot more pictures to add so I'll add them over the next couple of days and also add some commentary Lol I do have 4 videos on facebook of the property before we started any work, but I dont know how to retrieve them at the minute and cant locate them on my PC's hard drive although I know they are there somewhere.
Davey
Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:57 am
Looking forward to the pictures 
