Tony's House

Day162
FINISHED!!!

Days 157 to 161
Carpets down, kit out games room, build understair cupboard, start on hanging pictures, cut myself :-( , light fittings & snagging, office desk, Michael set pu the new data network and switch and the entry system, moved some stuff in back door £55 porch roof, sculpture of tony hanging up his tools, kitchen cbd door handles, final snagging.

Days 152 to 156
Finish basement second fix and painting, on my own now, window snagging, solar control system up, water mains in and only leak was thankfully inside a wc cistern (I did all the plumbing), wardrobe snagging, clean through (Elaine),entry system, moved some furniture in! carpets Monday.

Days 146 to 151
Stairs snagging, front door cladding to face, basement skirtings, roller shutter & windows snagging, lounge unit fitted, finally fitted bidet and tested svps, light fittings & lampshades, tidy loft, chase water board, tidy up, angled stair strings, planted some trees!, dining room door finish lounge skirtings, bathroom lights, bedroom lampshades

Days 141 to 145
Basement doors hung and lounge door, tarmac preps completed, Tuesday closed road and did tarmac, finished landscaping, hoped for water board to turn up before road was done been on that case for 20 weeks now, solar controls and monitoring and mood lighting etc went in, shelved basement store room, finished laying basement room floors.

Days 135 to 140
Lounge floor laid, basement floating floor laid in two rooms, front wall finished, patio pointed, nook wall built, scalpins laid, leveled to drive and raod, mood switches fitted, wc door hung, all brickwork and sand and cement work finished at last, front gardens mulched with manure/wood chippings, air handler commissioned and balanced, central vac tested and commissioned.

two weeks holiday

Days 130 to 134
Stairs finished, upstairs painting finished, air handler fitted and connected up temporarily to help finish drying out thebasement, kitchen doors went on and all fitted, treated stairs with oil, continued slowly with landscaping plastered stairs soffit, fitted wc + shower door to main bathroon.

Days 125 to 129
Front wall, kerb edgings, stairs went in, now finished painting all three bedrooms, grouted ensuite, fixed towel rad n basin, landscaped topsoil, tiled main bathroom friday pm.

Days 120 to 124
Retiled the ensuite myself (7 hr), laid patio, electric main in and tested electrics, fitted sink and plumbed in g/f wc & basin, water main etc, finished fence, back gate, security lights, tidyied round house laid patio.

Days 114 to 119
Tiling continued (subcontractors), Kitchen worktops and splashbacks were fitted, garden and driveway works started and we cleared and dug up the back garden, put up new fence, laid out patio, front garden, front wall footing etc. Encountered a problem with the kitchen floor.

Days 110 to 114
Fitted the kitchen units in readyness for the worktops to be tenplated, hung utility door and fitted architrave and skirting to k, d/rm and utility, made front door, tilers started on bathrooms.

Days 105 to 109
Decorating continued, I had to replace the solar store as it boiled once too often and tried to self destruct, Tiling started -- kitchen, utility and WC floors, I did a load of snagging/finishing off jobs including the porch ceiling and sealing window frames externally. Oak for g/f joinery arrived and was treated.

Days 100 to 104
The plasterer Chris finished plastering! Philip did the major part of the second fix wiring. We (Mark and I -- mostly Mark) hung the doors upstairs, skirtings and architraves, latches and door stops, painting continued with some help now, Friday afternoon I built the porch roof, felt battened and tiled it and dressed down the leadwork.

Days 95 to 99
The plasterer Chris plastered the big basement room and the lobby, I painted the back bedroom upstairs, I made an oak frint door frame and fitted it and the cavity closers ready for plastering also I did the carcuses of the fitted wardrobes.

Days 91 to 94
The plasterer Chris plastered the stair well and started on the basement rooms, the plastering is now over the hump, we screedeed the ground floor floors, I painted the front bedroom upstairs, knotted and primed the door linings,door stops and architrave, stairs were measured up for manufacture.

Days 86 to 90
The plasterer Chris plastered the kitchen, dining room lounge, utility and wc. I helped screed the floors upstairs -- carried all the cement up and mixed most of it -- fortunately I had put the sand up with the crane, painted the ceilings upstairs and fitted the bath.

Days 81 to 85
The plasterer Chris plastered the front bedroom 1 and the bathrooms and landing finishing upstairs. I built elliptical portion of the lounge ceiling and plasterboarded it on my own, started on basement window reveals and fitted external sills.

Days 76 to 80
The plasterer Chris plastered the front bedroom 3 (had two days elsware),I painted the airing cupboard & plumbed in hot cylinder, connected loft stores, set out eliptical portion of the lounge ceiling and installed LED feature lights to lounge window reveals.

Days 70 to 75
The plasterer Chris plastered the bedroom ceilings,the first stage of the lounge ceiling, walls to bedroom 2 and the airing cupboard. I cleaned the brickwork, fitted glass to the basement lightwell windows, got the rest of the ground floor ready to plaster,tacked basement ceilings, screeded airing cbd floof ready for hot cylinder, fitted some thermocouples and did the air ducts for the basement rooms.It was Philips last week for a while and he has helped more than I can say and finished all the first fix wiring as well as all the two man jobs he will be back after plastering done.

Days 65 to 69
First fix wiring and plumbing finished, window reveal linings, fit back door and make a temporary front door, window boards, consumer unit, tack g/f ceilings, finish battening basement ceilings, fully ready for plasterer upstairs, start on wiring control centre.

Days 59 to 64
First fix wiring and plumbing, door linings, window reveal linings, fit back door and make a temporary front door
(Day 61 - fit windows)

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