Owning your own home

Are you planning to live there through the work?

This was my question too @Gewürzt

If the answer was yes you'd be braver than me! If you do one at a time you have somewhere to hide at least.

Even if you're planning on moving out doing both at the same time would be more stress/decisions/ways of going over budget.

Think its so its a bit of a "studio" which I plan on having too, possibly for elderly parents...

A balcony at the front would defo be a challenge, but may not be impossible... https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/powerscroft-road/ (if set back enough to make it invisible).

Defo want an outrigger for the value vs cost they add, Eckford Chong designed a really nice one where half the outrigger was a terrace which is also tempting, maybe with a hot tub at the end...

(was meant as a joke but now has me thinking...)

The builder has started removing plaster from our kitchen wall and has mentioned a dehumidifier may help dry things out , is this a rental job or would something like this do the job?
https://www.screwfix.com/p/ebac-powerdri-18ltr-dehumidifier-unit/41553
It’s for a quarter of a wall in a kitchen / diner of a typical London Victorian terrace

18 litres a day extraction is pretty industrial. If that can't dry the room, not sure what could.

Is it ok to force dry plaster then? Assumed it was best left to dry naturally.

Dunno, but I thought we were talking damp brickwork exposed by removing the damp fucked plaster.

maybe with a hot tub at the end

replace with permanent embedded zwift setup imo

Yes brickwork, plaster is indeed damp, fucked and removed. Think I’ll give it a go, cheers

Oh yeah, cross-reference that to @Velocio 's kitchen thread too.

Tbh the more my wife and I talk about it the more we're probably just going to get the loft done and see about the rest later on. It makes the most sense from a budget/stress point of view, there's also a reasonably high chance that my wife's work might ask her to set up a department in France in a year so it's probably not the best idea. 😂

or wales or birmingham

You only need an Architect if you want Architecture.

with that said - for a bog standard extension or possible wraparound - who should you use? SE?

This is a repost from yesterday but it disappeared very quickly, this thread is on fire ATM.

Does anyone need some LED downlight bulbs? I bought ones which don't play well with our dimmers so I now have 40 of these going spare

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01KHILJ5O/r­ef=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_TpybGb0KEPKMG?_en­coding=UTF8&psc=1

It's the 2700k version.

They've been used for one week, I've reboxed them in the boxes for the replacement bulbs. If that makes sense.

Happy to sell them for £1 each if taken as a job lot.

How long do you think you will be where you are (maybe not long with a potential move to France)?

Dormers to traditional victorian houses are super ugly regardless of how long the larch cladding has been charred for, or the RAL colour of the PPC aluminium windows. It's also super rare that they offer anything over sub-standard space internally.

Regardless, a loft extension is likely to give you the best 'return on investment' (throws up in mouth). A side extension/general remodelling of the ground floor will give you the better quality of life (assuming you have enough bedrooms).

London water isn't all that great - only noticed since leaving London

Dehumidifier and heat, it’ll dry and pull the water out the air helping it dry.

A loft conversion is a pretty self-contained piece of work too. The rest of your property is still habitable without issues throughout. Also probably the cheapest way of adding square footage.

“Isn’t” tastes like shite. Can get a good cup of tea out the tap tahts for sure.

We thought maybe for an au pair, lol.

That house is literally round the corner from mine and the design of houses round here is different to Coppermill, they have flatter roofs which are hidden behind a parapet, which means you can do stuff like that when you couldn't with a 'normal' shaped house because it can't be seen from the road. This is an aerial view of our street which shows you what I mean:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5526693,-0.0475075,65a,35y,180h,39.58t/data=!3m1!1e3

Was the terrace fully outside or internal (got a link)? Cos I reckon the council wouldn't let you have an actual terrace at that height due to overlooking issues.

Soz to be a Debbie downer but have already considered this sort of thing a lot myself. Who knows what wacky schemes architects could come up with to get it past planning though :)

Depends on what tea bags you use? yorkshire is the only way

There's a house on a road nearby that actually has a front dormer. I always wonder if other residents on the road could argue planning permission for one.

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I am now slightly more into cork than I was before I saw your picture

The dormer isn't the issue... look at that cladding!

planners may use it as an argument not to give permission too...

I suspect/assume this was done in the Wild West days of the 80's, before stricter planning permission came in...

Both those houses are eye sores.