Monday, March 06, 2006

Hiccup!!

On friday I took myself off to see how the renovations were going to find our first hiccup. The builders had started bricking-in parts to create the new guest loo/spare-bathroom. The problem was that the ground measurements did not match the plans. So on Saturday I took Chris round and explained the dilema. Clive then came around and a whole lot of remeasuring and thinking took place. We soon realised that the set of plans we got from council dated 1946 were rather inaccurate with the actual layout of the existing building.This left us with an overall discrepency of +600mm. One may think that this is not much but it actually affects a whole bunch of things including the staircase and bathrooms and guest bedroom. So, after much brain-storming, we came up with the only possible "easy" solution. We will no longer have a seperate guest loo but a "proper" bathroom with easy access. The linen cupboards along the wall will be halved (but we will have storage/cupboard space under the stairs) The stairs were originally going to be open plan. We will have a bookcase/wine rack along the wall to allow for bigger space between wall and stairs. In addition the guest bedroom will be extended outwards by 1m. The catch here is we now need new foundations and a new external wall built but from Clive's perspective this will be a far better option for 2 reasons: A-The slab (for the main bedroom) will be resting on a new wall/foundation that we are 100% sure is correct and B- Our bedroom, upstairs also become a little bigger! The trials and tribulations of renovating - at least this was reletively easy to solve.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The "joys" of building - you just have to think constantly that at the end the stress is all worth it and I'm sure it will be. Chris wants to know where is the porn.