Ugh, sorry my mobile data is so bad I can’t keep y’all updated with photos on all the #WeirdHouse #WoodenHouse discoveries & renovations until internet arrives
Even that is proving difficult because although I can see the closest telegraph pole from my kitchen window we can’t create enough clearance over the road for the line 🙄
And neighbour understandably doesn’t want my fibre cable almost touching his roof if we use one on our side of road 😮💨
There will be a big vomit at some stage hopefully
Here you go … I bought a new eSIM that seems to provide a little more data upload capability.
Lots of progress outside as it wasn’t reliant on me.
And new ceramic discoveries inside 🤮
I’ll try catch up tomorrow morning unless my delivery of tools and stuff arrives early and can crack on with real work
https://mrrob.in/2nd-3rd-october-update/
A slight vommit of blog to bring us up to date (if anyone cares) 🤷♂️🤣
We found a Puutalo brochure in the stuff left in the house.
Slow but steady progress on house as internet connection saga descends into farce
https://mrrob.in/more-bedroom-discoveries/
Yes. Yet more unsavoury discoveries in our
#WeirdHouse #WoodenHouse
D is still ill (she was gluten-ed) but I’ve been battling on… pealing layers off our strange onion 🤣
How weird can a cupboard be? We have a definite answer. 😵💫
@BitchinRob The image shows the interior of what appears to be a shipping container converted into a living space. The container has a metal ceiling with visible beams and a polished silver countertop that extends along the left and right sides of the frame. A washing machine is visible on the left side of the countertop, along with various containers and items including orange plastic shopping bags. Further in the container, a person is standing and facing the back of the container, possibly holding a phone. A window on the right side reveals a view of a yard and surrounding buildings.
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How weird can a cupboard be? We have a definite answer. 😵💫
Today was a long day bashing and pulling things off kitchen walls …
First night sleeping over in #WeirdHouse #WoodenHouse for a while …
The concrete coffee table/ fire surround/ speaker stand sounds heavy.
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The image shows a room with dark wood paneling on the walls and ceiling. The focal point is a large, rectangular fireplace with a broad, angled hood extending upwards. In front of the fireplace is a white, rectangular surface covered with various items, including tools, pieces of paper with drawings, and small objects. To the left of the fireplace is a portion of a window, and a circular object hanging on the wall, possibly a clock. The room appears to be unfinished, with visible construction materials and tools scattered around the floor, and a ladder leaning against the wall.
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The image is a screenshot of a music player interface, likely on a smartphone. The central focus is the album art, which features a highly detailed, stylized illustration of a creature with a large head, prominent eyes, and many tentacle-like appendages. The illustration is rendered in shades of orange, blue, and white with a textured, dot-based style. Below the art, the text “Promoter (of Earthbound Caus) Clutch” is displayed. The player controls at the bottom of the screen include a rewind button, a pause/play button, a fast-forward button, a volume control, and a button indicating the connection to “FiiO BTR5”.
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We have actually started to put stuff back into #WeirdHouse #WoodenHouse
But of course there was another surprise
https://mrrob.in/turning-point/
@BitchinRob A person is working on electrical wiring inside a room undergoing renovation. The room has exposed brick walls with patches of peeling wallpaper and plaster. The person is installing or connecting wires to a white electrical panel mounted on the brick wall, framed by wood supports. Multiple blue and black wires are visible extending from the panel. A smartphone is clipped onto a belt loop of the person’s pants, and a tool belt hangs from the waist.
The text on the person's shirt reads "TOLL ELECTRIC."
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The image shows a section of an indoor wall that appears to be undergoing renovation. The wall is primarily a pale yellow color with vertical, rectangular sections of a slightly darker yellow hue. Running vertically along the wall are four metal conduits with attached electrical outlets. The bottom portion of the wall features a white baseboard and is showing signs of wear and tear, with some visible damage and exposed wood. Partially visible in the foreground is a portion of a table and chair, and to the right is a glimpse of what appears to be a coat and refrigerator.
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The image depicts a section of a room undergoing renovation, with exposed brick walls and damaged plaster. A window frame is visible on the left side, covered with blinds. Multiple white electrical boxes are mounted on the brick wall, with blue and black cables running along its surface and connecting to a black box at floor level. A shovel leans against the wall on the right side, and the floor is a reddish-brown wood surface. The walls show extensive cracking and peeling of the plaster, suggesting significant repair work is needed.
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@vwdasher I was like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke … 🤣
Would have been less painful if I didn’t have to hold my thumb over the end that I’d just taken a huge chunk of flesh off of when cutting and stopping up the other free flowing leaks 😖
At least no lasting damage to anything (I think) 👍
@BitchinRob The image depicts an indoor room with a wood-paneled aesthetic, appearing as a living space or den. The room is long and narrow, with a dark wood floor that reflects light. A large, white fireplace structure dominates the center of the room, extending from the floor to near the ceiling. Furniture, including several armchairs with zebra-patterned upholstery, is scattered throughout the room, along with a dark-colored sofa visible in the foreground. Several windows line the right side of the room, offering a glimpse of darkness outside.
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@BitchinRob A long, narrow hallway is captured from a first-person perspective, extending toward a brighter opening at the end. The walls are covered in patterned, textured wallpaper, appearing beige and brown in color. A wooden floor with a warm, golden tone runs the length of the hall, and the ceiling is constructed from similar wooden planks. Several doors line both sides of the hallway, with some appearing white and others a darker, reddish-brown color. In the middle of the hallway is a red vacuum cleaner, and a hot water heater is visible at the end of the hall, along with a glimpse of a room with green and yellow elements.
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@blingoali that’s The Plan now…
well actually floor & skirting are staying(as retrofit hardwood floor is built upto the box skirting both making it tricky to access to run services through and remove 🤣)
Walls are ALL being pealed carefully back to the original chipboard lining. But door frames are staying for prepping and re-painting as may the bedroom doors unless we do go for fully glazed interior doors to let as much natural light through as possible.
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I think we will knotty wood T&G right through the house… as far as we are concerned you can’t have too much wood in a timber house.
Just shower room and kitchen to finish stripping back now 😵💫
@BitchinRob
It's always the way: the stripping out and prepping take up 80% of the time.
The putting it back together takes the other 80% 🤣
But what a place you'll end up with!
@BitchinRob
At least you're not scared of a project.
And even if you know a smidge about what a job entails, you do wonder where some estimates come from: to move our water cylinder from a kitchen cupboard to the loft - the strong bit where the soon-to-be-superfluous water tank was currently living - we had quotes ranging from £3750 to £11000.
The cheapest came from a guy whose work was highly recommended. The end result was 50% plumbing, 50% copper sculpture. Beautiful. On time, on budget.
@blingoali there is definitely no correlation between cost and quality. Finding good willing people is the key.
Thankfully being closer to York there is a bigger pool of people to chose from.
We’ve found a good plumbing company. There is a local firm doing the outside work for us and our young sparky who did the cabins for us is getting involved. So far it’s just the roof and solar we need to sort (and neighbour has just done his and had contacts who know the problems he encountered)
@BitchinRob
At least there can't be any surprises in rooms with furniture, plumbing AND electrics!
Good luck…
@BitchinRob The image shows an interior wall with a hot water heater mounted on the left and a doorway on the right. The hot water heater is white with a digital display showing "56.0". The wall is covered in peeling, patterned wallpaper with a faded floral design and a beige background. A white doorframe surrounds a doorway leading to another room, with a partially visible white wooden door featuring vertical slats. There is a dark ceiling visible at the top of the frame.
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@vulgalour it’s absolutely mad? So many layers it’s like an archeological dig to get back to the structure
Thank dog it was a kit house and we have plans of how it was likely built.
I’d keep the metal ceilings but they deform permanently as soon as you touch them. even cleaning is almost impossible without permanent damage. The kitchen ones are covered in oily residue.
At lease the beautiful original wood T&G ceilings are still in place and more or less undamaged so far
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@Basmitharts I just wish all the weird was done right Not just bodged diy on top of bodged diy on top of bodged diy. Don’t get my wrong I’m enjoying undoing it but they seem to have removed all the original internal finishes before creating their DIY onion we’re now peeling. And everything they have done is shoddy. Fine-ish on surface but absolutely crap underneath.
I hope you like where we’re going … Back to original layout (but keeping open plan vibe) and lots of knotty pine T&G is the plan.
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