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Christ that looks like a lot of work. Be really interested to know what you thought/hoped you'd spend, what the architect thought, what you've ended up spending. I don't think the place I got 6 months ago also in SE will have nothing worth keeping, but there's going to be a lot that needs doing.
What's the plan next?
duncs
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Long time lurker on here and the "own your own home" thread. Currently about 2/3 through work on the wreck of a house we bought about 3.5 years ago in SE. Feel like it should be mandatory to do the whole thing in miniature before trying the real thing. Learnt so many lessons (most of them the hard way). Def bit off more than we could chew when we bought the place, massively underestimated how much it would cost to do up, got burnt working with an architect who seemingly had no clue on how much the works would cost when it went to tender so had to scrap approx. 6 months of work and go back to the drawing board and very quickly realised when we started strip out that there was absolutely nothing worth keeping so ended up taking it right back to four brick walls (which makes you wonder what you paid for) - but hey, it can only be up from here, right?
Anyway, this is really a long and convoluted way of getting to my actual question: does anyone have experience of using microcement / beton cire as a finish for patios, steps and garden walls? Seems pretty cost effective but have some residual concerns about how it might be affected from frost given it's only 2-3mm thick. If we hadn't already poured the slab up to the threshold I'd be nicking the brutalist gravel board idea from @chrisbmx116 ...
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