Bungalow renovation/ conversion

Which ones, not sure what you mean? I suppose the ground floor ones could be hung the opposite way to open against the wall?

Ooh I like that- was thinking of doing the main bathroom like that with orange 🍊 tiles

There has been one bungalow in town that has had a whole new floor put on under PD rights - they didn't even go for PP but submitted a cleverly worded report.

Was not aware you could do that. I'd definitely want the peace of mind of planning if I were going to that time trouble!

We want to do a bit of work on the ground floor and loft convert ours but realistically not for a few years, makes me wonder if it's worth starting the ball rolling with an architect before too long, even if we get plans drawn and change our minds it gives us plenty of tinkering time before we do anything we can't easily un-do.

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I reckon it’s a good idea to sketch out what you want (to scale if possible) and keep playing with it. Sun rise / sunset/ light/ space etc.
We’ve to-ed and fro-ed a bit and at the end of the day it could be a compromise as to what you want and what you can afford!
Luckily we’ve got what we want plan wise and the budget is doable

It’s on my long term todo list to do a sketch-up drawing of the whole property.

I’ve got a job coming up which will probably involve a lot of sitting about on standby so it might be an ideal time to start if I can remember to take some measurements before then.

Day 2 . Loads of concrete and other muck dug out and levelled. (Lovely rich soil! )
Foundation trenches being dug on Monday/Tuesday- can’t quite believe this is actually happening!

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What is it with truck cabs and personalised artwork. Always found it fascinating

True.
Also , why do lorry drivers have their often silly nicknames made into a number plate and then displayed in their cabs?
eg: TINY (who is anything but) BIG DAVE (who is massive) etc etc

Trenches just passed building control - concrete next week

I did something quite similar to your side profile when I extended my bungalow a couple of years back.. except I kept the original line of the roof verge and extended from the ridge back with a flat roof to make it look like a dormer window from the side.. original bungalow is wet dash white and the new extension in smooth render in grey.. Before and after below..

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I remember this one - so great - love how considered the play of colour and texture is - what my tutor would have called Baukunst - did you install that tree or did it just grow.

enjoying this. always thought it looked like you had an interesting house (same era as ours) from seeing little details in the back of shots of the DS. good luck dude.

Thanks, the brief was to get 4 bedrooms upstairs and make it look as least shit as possible.. flat roof for head room and then render bands to try and break it up..

Yes, the tree is in the first photo.. and I actually have to keep trimming it as it grows so fast. It' s still a wee bungalow from the front..

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Thanks Jonny - it’s all go now.
DS sold and is getting shipped to Maine, USA 🇺🇸 soon!
Concrete foundations are in at the back . Weather is horrible so total mud fest at the moment

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Very nice, I remember seeing this and the similarities although we’re not doing as many bedrooms!

Yours looks great.. will keep an eye on this thread.

yes.. kids all demanding a bedroom each!! Spoilt!!

Sun 🌞 hooray!

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Mud everywhere

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Waiting to get shipped to the USA 🇺🇸

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One of the builders is a pillock - asked him on two seperate occasions (nicely) to turn his outdoor radio down as it was disturbing the neighbour (he grunted in response), then pointed out he built up too many bricks for the size of window we're having (he didn't like this either especially when i asked him if he'd looked at the plans)....
I know this isn't PC these days but i think he's a bit thick
Luckily the boss knows what he's doing and he'll be on site again next week when we move out.
Apart from that things are moving on.

I hear you about builders not looking at plans properly. They blocked up the wrong window at first on the kitchen, family room extension at our last place and I was only at work for 6 hours :( It all came good in the end though.
Love what you’re doing with your place 👍

Thanks, happened again yesterday but with a different brickie!
At least they all rock up @8am and take up a good proportion of the street

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Perfect weather today

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