Brick work was flying up at this point, was great to come home and see the progress

Another unplanned extra cost was the steels, the calculations turned out for the weight extra it had to be done in steels

Roof trusses going on

 

Crikey, that’s a fine looking home, garden and garage. Great to see a property with decent land and not every square cm filled up.

 

At the time the builder was planning for another build in the garden, they couldn’t get planning so we bought the land.

worked for us thankfully

crl

 

Amazing! Looking forward to updates and seeing what you decide to do with all your new inside space. Enjoy!

 

That's going to be a nice place that!

 

Looking good

 

Thats what you call A GAFF!

 

Very nice, explains the huge garden, bonus you managed to buy that land, but I'm sure you could stretch to a ride on mower for your poor son! lol

 

That made me laugh out loud, he cuts the grass around the side, the ride on does the rest, he just acts a plonker and likes to do random things, that was one captured with a photo.

This is me, have to admit I do like cutting the grass.

A well earnt beer.

carl

 

Looks like the neighbours haven’t bothered cutting the grass for a while 🤭

 

Scalped it at the weekend, scarified🤣🤣🤣

 

Just watch out if the start building a wicker man 😳

in seriousness if that wheat or barley they often use a shotgun type scarecrow that goes ‘bang’ every half hour or so and can get annoying- my wife’s uncles one set fire to a portion of one of his fields before he managed to tackle the blaze last year after a few weeks of baking heat !

 

Its corn, been through two years now it’s for animals so gives you the trots should you try it, have had no issues yet.

Carl

 

That garage is the size of my house😀

 

A few more updates, roof timbers all done and the start of the dormer windows

Mud and crap everywhere. Only downside to a new build, also explains why a new build can’t get great grass.

The pattern put into the brickwork to match the house. Nice touch

Window work all going on, some craftsmanship

another angle

Photo taken from the bottom of the garden

Tiles now on

Another angle

 

A few internal photos, all blockwork boarded to be plastered, the two lumps in the middle are the steels, also the upstairs has a shower room and toilet so the waste pipe is also boarded on the ceiling.

plastered

starting to look good, electrician also been in and did a first fix

Upstairs, not really decided what we will do with this space as yet, but it has a shower room and toilet, the amount of insulation you have to do now is massive so it has narrowed the walls somewhat.

Down stairs toilet, this is accessible without going into the garage so saves people being nosy who need a pee. 😂

 

As always Carl - beautifully done. Fair play to you all you work hard enough for it fella.

 

A few updates for you.

Windows got there lead fitted, we had to wait for this, also didn’t realise it was an extra cost but looks great. Standard was meant to be slate, think we choose the better option?

With all the insulation, it makes them look smaller than we first thought, not sure what to do with the upstairs to be honest. Sure we will think of something.

The up stairs rooms got boarded out

With the sun out decided to have a beer and watch the boy work…… only kidding he just wanted to mess with the leaf blower after I had finished with it and all the garden work

Finally the scaffolding came down, time to get some bits cleaned up, looks like a builders yard 😂

Also celebrated the coronation with a few friends, opposite side of the garden in my man shed.

 

Believe it or not the cheapest way to heat the garage was with a/c, that was duly fitted, also the room got plastered

Did expect the machine to be high up on the wall but it’s at ground level, give me something to crash into I suppose.😂

We then got the finishing touch, windows and doors in the correct colour that match the house, had to have these painted.

it’s now all happening with the floor, gone for epoxy and flake system, will update you all soon.

thanks for looking.

carl

 

Not much to update but we now have all electrics working and the epoxy flake flooring system is just curing as I write this, the drive to the garage may have to wait, running low on funds.

 

Man cave envy here mate, looks awesome. Keep up the good work, it's a credit to you.

 

Moving to a new house with a bigger place and a huge garden sounds fantastic! I can imagine how challenging it must have been to navigate the planning process with the conservation area and the old trees. Taking down the tree in your back garden was probably a tough decision, but sometimes it's necessary for progress. But perhaps in your situation you should not just make radical decisions, but also consult with an international estate agency. I think they can find a solution for this situation.

It's a shame you couldn't have the garage at the rear due to the protected trees, but I'm sure you found a great alternative. Starting with a bleak and bare garden might have seemed daunting, but I'm curious to know how it looks now.

 

Having a big garden is a blessing and a curse, think painting a bridge or lighthouse, by the time you've finished you need to start again, larger gardens are like that with weeds

Add to that being surrounded by sycamore trees and several times a year you're pulling tree seedlings out the borders / driveway etc.

 

Yes definitely, the garden is great but you have to have the time to look after it, the wife likes to look after the plants, my job is to cut the grass, strI’m the edges etc, when it gets too much we get a local guy to do some weeding but it’s full on, especially with the wet warm weather we are having at the minute.

Currently sat outside in the bbq area writing this with the fire on, whether one minute is dry the Next it chucks it down. Had to stop the birds nesting in here and the lights have took a bombing from the birds, spent my detailing skills stripping the lamps and cleaning them.

The glass has gone really cloudy had to use to da and cutting compound, look load’s better now but was some effort.

 

Back to the garage, things have been happening but as you can imagine the funds take a knock and there is always the unexpected costs that don’t get accounted for that get in the way.

The garage door company fitted the wrong colour doors, they was meant to match the existing ones on the house but somehow didn’t seem to notice they were dark grey not black, as you can imagine we paid up front so nothing ever got sorted right down to not getting any remote control to operate the doors, eventually after I left some poor feed back we got one key but regards the colour there was nothing they could do! To be fair they are not next to the other doors so it shouldnt really get noticed.

The garage floor was done and I went for an epoxy flake system, for some reason it was all laid and it never really cured, the floor was sticky even weeks after it was laid, then it all looked patchy.

The company I used have done a fair few floors for me and never had the issue before, I had other things to do and left it at least three weeks, he came back and sorted it which was a relief.

as you can see it looks ok, but patchy and very sticky, even right up to when they re did it.

once we was back and ready to takle the floor again the company stuck to there word and redid it, massive improvement.

Even the toilet area got the same treatment, all the skirting boards have now been refitted and some decorating has took place

as you can see here much better, you can also see the bass box for the sound system in the corner, that’s another expense but I really wanted a good sound system.

Upstairs got decorating and the a/c fitted. We now need to finish the bathroom to be able to get it signed off, as you can imagine a lot of the trades are really busy so a tiler isn’t available to come till august.


I did put a couple of cars in the garage last week but as the drives not done I damaged the drains at the front 😩

Overall very happy and it’s taking shape well.

Carl

 

nice space mate, bit random about the floor not curing though.

 

I think deep down the guy used the wrong product, we will never know, just glad he came back and sorted it.

Carl

 

Floor looks lovely now it's done Carl.

Can't wait to see it with all the toys parked in there mate.

 

Floor looks lovely now it's done Carl.

Can't wait to see it with all the toys parked in there mate.

Evening fella.

Funny you should say that, I popped a couple in the other night. Also bought some geeky Mat’s for work but there too nice to get dirty there 🤣🤣

I was thinking the mini but that’s tucked up in the house garage😂

Place is like a black canvass at the minute, thinking of a bit painting to put on the rear wall?? Something old school like the street fighter game scene.

Carl

 

Started to add a few bits to the walls, make it a bit more garage like.

The p on the Porsche lettering is a bit on the wonk, I blame that on my son.

could do with a drive way but ran low on funds, anyone local to Leicester fancy a job?

Carl

 

Lol was just thinking I’d there some gravel out front that we can’t see 😆 looks fantastic tho 👍👍