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Excellent stuff!
Looking forward to seeing the thread and bungalow develop.
My wife and I have just done the same- completed on a late 60s bungalow coming up for a month ago and moved in a week ago. Just about habitable!
We’re already sketching plans. Gr floor extension and adding a couple of rooms in the roof.
Happy days. Good luck!
This is the wallpaper in a loo that I want to somehow preserve...
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That paper is lovely. Reminds me of my mum's dresses! I love a good bit of seventies pattern. I still remember the beautiful tiles my parents ripped out in the early nineties - some of it might have been sixties, but such gorgeous glazes.
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I had this exact same wallpaper under about 5 other layers of wallpaper in my bathroom in Huddersfield. I don't know it it was water proof or if it was treated after but it was particularly tough to remove. Possibly just sacked it off and painted over it.
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About a year and a half ago my wife and I bought this house:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/sold-prices/photos/property-53383614.html
The idea when we bought it was that while it is perfectly livable for the time being we would eventually do some work to turn it into a bigger house suitable for a family of 4.
The plan is to extend slightly on the ground floor and add a first floor. I will be carrying out the vast majority of the work myself and we are looking to do all building using a mix of gluelam beams and timber framing. We have found an architect that we like and want to work with who will not be involved in the project management side of things but will help us with planning and appointing an appropriate structual engineer he is shortly going to start work on the site survey and producing the initial planning drawings.
We would like the building to be as close as possible to Passive Haus certification, this will be tricky as we will be using a large amount of existing walls etc that may not be airtight.
I'm planning on keeping this thread updated with what is going on and the work that I'll be carrying out for posterity if nothing else.
Exciting times.