Refurbishing an Old Cottage - last update Dec 2012
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Hi! All
The cottage as come a long way, but is a long way from finished, the main jobs still outstanding. Long hallway. Bedroom nr 2, there is no celling or floor in this bedroom as water was getting in through the roof. The heating and hot water. The outside pipping as some of it was broken by roots. Flooring through out. Gathering. House needs to be painted. And the porch had to be knocked down as it was pulling at the cottage walls, leaving the from of the house with holes, where the brick of the porch join the house. Will be updating here and adding pictures as we go along. If you have anything we can use or advice, please click on link to our wanted thread, thanks http://www.jumbletown.ie/forums/show...849#post554849 We started with the drive and the area around the cottage as it was very bad and inaccessible. We have now received with many many thanks:). Cole - Kitchen Another site - Kitchen taps Various people - Loads of advice IrishHomer - Bath familyguy - Flooring, Loads of Tiles, Window & TV Ariel Pallasbull - Doors, sky dish and items of furniture Biker Chick - Bread maker and PS1 Angelina - Shower Doors Luimneach - Caravan Mattresses Avril in another site - Coal bunker, carpet, car trailer, fence, etc . LiamJ - Fireplace Sean - wheelie bins Pallasbull - Saw, Paint & more cluelessjewel - Jewellery box for another project Chorcai - Antique Suitcase & Fondue monalitto - Corner bath and taps Pallasbull - Sick, electric shower, table martin - Sand, gates and other building materials monalitto - Mixer taps for the bathroom mewl81 - Light fitting, sockets, etc Sean - Sick, Electric work, furniture and much more tadgher - Shelves Dannloads - Small fish tank Dave Hyland - Tiles and Doors bullg - Doors and other bits and peaces 35Glen - Old school desk finj - Display cabinet, coffee table and TV. Bullg - Table saw delia1 - Table and chairs/table lamp/Windows &doors, etc Neon-Circles - Wheelie bins Eibhlin ni Sheambrai - Under sink water heater murph - Corner sofa Bob&Tina - Freezer takeit - Double bed delia1 - Dog House oneniall - Shelves dminihane1 - 2 dark brown arm chairs kt72 - Lawnmower, paint, net and more Pallasbull - Paint, paint sprayer, brackets Thank you all :) |
cottage refurbishment
Well done Tudlytops its looking good!
We undertook a similar project abroad about 12 years ago now. We had a big field in front of the house so decided to have a long curved drive up to the house (we had another access so it wasn't urgent). We started out by getting a JCB to scrape back the drive and then used all the rubble we had to fill it in. Of course this didn't go nearly far enough and we had to buy stone from the quarry. One morning in the pitch black dark a lorry came to deliver a load at the end of the drive (it all had to be then loaded into the bucket of a tractor to be spread by us afterwards!) and it was only in the daylight I saw that the telephone lines to our neighbours houses had been pulled down by the lorry. The money we saved by doing it ourselves then went on paying for the telephone company to come out and repair the lines nightmare!! In the beginning it can be a bit disheartening that your money goes on things like the drive and for us a septic tank, rewiring but you have no choice but do these jobs first before the pretty bits. It would have been wonderful to have a Jumbletown equivalent for everything else!!! Best of luck with the project Sparkwell |
Thanks, you poor thing, hope the rest of the restoration went without incident.
The drive isn't finished but it is 100% better then it was and it will do for now as money is short, but we had no way to get up there, so it had to be done, we created a parking area at the front and cleaned up all around the cottage, thank God we didn't have any accidents. We got a fella with a digger to do a lot of the work, he was very good. We have to get the electricity and the water going, they the next big jobs. The septic seems ok, but we just got it uncovered so we still have to have a good look. And then all the inside aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! |
cottage renovation
Hi Tuddlytops, just looking at your photos, good luck with the work, we have just finished(are we ever finished?!) a five year renovation projest of an 1830 cottage and barn. You would think I would be sick of it but I would do it all again. This is my third (and last) time to buy an old house in a state of total neglect and turn it into something beautiful. Keep asking for hints and things, will help out in any way I can, Eibh.
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Thanks Eibh., 1830, must be beautiful and your 3rd one, you must love punishment lol.
No. i don't suppose its ever finished health and money are the hardest to come by for everything else there's Jumble Town. If you have any advice please sent it our way, all is appreciated. |
Great start guys.We will be watching the story unfold. x
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Caravan is now up at the cottage
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Soon this little caravan will be home for a while.
can't wait, we already spend a couple of nights up there, can't wait to just move in. Oh and our fist paper briquette :) we going all green. |
Kitchen is started
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The work in the kitchen is well under way.
We are making 1 kitchen out of 2, opening up the chimney and placing the cooker and oven in there. The doors for the 2 kitchens are different but by the time we finished they will look the same and have a country look to them. 1 Kitchen given to us by Cole, thank you 1 given on another site |
Well thats the prettiest little briquette Ive ever seen! LOL. Things are moving on for you now.Bet excitement is high now.
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Hi Tuddlytops, why do I feel such excitement when I look at all the work you have to do? I must be mad,lol. I will try to put up some photos of what we did with our cooker/fireplace. Amazing what an old beam and some old red bricks can do to create atmosphere. Just need to get 'he who knows how' to upload some pics and I'll post them. Best of luck and the days are getting longer. Just think what the summer will be like:) Eibh.
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If you getting exited you well come to come help any time :)
Do, we haven't quite decided on the end look, just that it is what we want to do with the fire place, so any ideas are welcome. Yes the days are getting longerrrrrrrr, that means more work, as we took the decision that when it gets dark we stop and come home, it will mean we come home much later, maybe we just stay there more often :) |
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Hi Tuddlytops, finally worked out how to upload photos. We had to knock down a very badly built kitchen extension that had a very low roof and small windows. The room is new but we like old. I had been cutting out pictures of cookers/mantlepieces and keeping them in a file. A friend of ours built it for us using red bricks that were left on site and the beam was originally over the window of the old kitchen. By the way, this friend is a butcher by trade not a builder but we reckon he did a good job with only a few pictures to look at. Might give you an idea. You could use a railway sleeper as a beam supported on bricks and put your oven and hob inside. Eibh.
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That is fabulous, thankfully the only thing we have to knock down is the porch, it was built without foundation, i reckon your Butcher friend couldn't have done a better job.
We were thinking of a railway sleeper as well, i think they add a lot of charm. How do you find cooking with the cooker under there? Oh and did you put some sort of a filter on the chimney? |
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Hi there, if you look behind the beam you will see there is an extractor fan which is vented to the outside. We cheated as we didn't actually have a chimney but wanted the look. If you are actually going into the chimney space you would have to close it off like for an aga and maybe install an extractor fan vented up the chimney. E.
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Now now that's cheating lol.
Yeah we were looking at it, the smoke goes up just fine, we lighted a small fire on the floor to check it out, but the dirt also comes down lol, we were thinking of building some sort of a filter. |
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In the old part of the cottage we have original wide chimneys that you could send a child up to sweep lol! one was open right up, you could see the stars and the other was covered in with corrugated iron. There was a hole in the centre for the stove pipe and at either side two more holes but covered over that could be opened to clean out. It stops the soot and you don't end up with birds nest soup. I'll have to take some more photos tomorrow. Going to bed now..after being a member since 2008 I have finally got the courage and knowhow to communicate and may be in danger of becoming a JT addict Ha Ha!!
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We've put one of those chimney things on top, one with a hat thingy (i'm very technical you should see me in shops trying to get what i want lol), any way it's stopped water coming down and it will stop the birds to, but unless we send the child up to clean it it will never be spotless so we are going to build a filter.
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Hi Tuddlypops. That is coming up gorgeous! I know how hard you are working but it is very satisfying I'm sure. You will have a cosy little home soon. Best wishes. Unapam |
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That is wonderful. That's one talented buthcher! lucky you. :-) |
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I wish we could live in it save the rent money, but there's no water or ESB yet so no chance, we do stay there over night sometimes but the caravan baterry can only go so far |
Thank you unapan, it is every time we finish something we feel dead proud of ourselves.
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Well Done
Well Done Tudlytops it is looking really fab - you must be so proud of your achievements to date!!
Well Done. LWW :) |
Thank you,
Its slow going health not the best, but we getting there :) |
What you are doing is amazing, I envy you :-) I look forward to more photos and hearing about your progress! Thank Goodness for JumbleTown.
Regards Chloe |
thank you, health hasn't been the best so we going kinda slow and just done some work on the garden as it is easier.
But we do have doors on the kitchen cupboards and worktops waiting to be cut and fitted so we should have more pictures soon. |
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Hi Tudlytops, can't find the thread about looking for old sleepers to build mantlepiece around chimney for your cooker. I have found something that may be useful. Could you pm me as I don't want to put details up, as I am offering to you, not putting up for general viewing. Cheers, Eibhlin.
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PM sent, thanks
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I'm not into renovating, but in a 1930's house that had a space for a range, and a chimney above it, I also used the space to put my cooker. At first, the chimney was open (for some reason down the years there never was a range in the gap), but when the kitchen was done up, I got them to put hardboard/marine ply across the whole opening, with a space for a vent (sliding), to take the steam up the chimney. Then I had tiles fitted on all 4 sides of the box (ceiling and 3 sides), so the vent just isn't obvious, and I no longer have dust (and worse) coming down. I clean the vent occasionally, and if any birds fall down the chimney, I know I'll have to re-do the whole thing, but its not a big job. |
Thanks mondubics,
We've build a sort of a holder for a filter, it opens up so we can change the filter and we place a chimney guard so no birds will be coming down, this sort of chimneys are very common in Portugal so i have a good idea of what to do with it. We can't tile it at the moment, short of cash, so we just going to paint it so it is clean and tile it later. Most of the work apart from the tiling of walls and floor is now done and will be putting some pictures up soon :) |
We almost done with the kitchen and living room.
Just short of tiles for the kitchen so will compromise for now with paint for the floor and kitchen wallpaper for the walls over the counters will have pictures soon Thank you all |
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We had a bit of an electric drama ( no electricity for 2 days) but by early next week, hopeful apart from the tiling and the cupboard for the hot press its all done :)
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Living room
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With the help of so many people here on JT, our living room is so much better, not finished the fireplace yet, but its well underway :P
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Bathroom
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Now this was fun :) never tiled before, but it didn't come out to bad.
And my Sweetener skills never ceases to amaze me, he done all the plumbing :) Still a few bits to be done, but nearly there. |
Doors
We are having "customized" doors, we got 4 panel doors, cut 2 panels out and we are replacing the panels with stained glass that we are painting ourselves.
Each room will be different and it will have some meaning to us. Now this is fun to do :P |
Fireplace bed 1
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Now this was blocked up, we not going to use it as a fire place, but we wanted it showing, the bedroom is very small so we could not have a proper fireplace, so this is how its being done.
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Attic insulation
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Now this i hate, its been very hard and slow because of our health, but we are getting there and we can already feel the benefits.
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Refurbishing an old cottage
Have really enjoyed reading your thread which I only hit on in the past hour or so....you are an inspiration to so many people, especially in these recessional times....Things can get done with a lot of elbow grease and hard work....You are making me feel lazy so I am going to go on a big clean up and put some elbow grease into making my house as pretty as yours is turning out...
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What a fabulous idea! PLEASE show when done.. |
It's amazing. I like that you kept the fireplace as a feature, you could put a flower arrangement in it, or shelves and even some pebbles with a candle.
the glass panels are a wonderful idea, will also make the rooms feel a bit less closed in. |
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