Nismo
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Haven't posted in here for a while!
Towards the end of the summer last year i decided to rip up the old laminate in the kitchen and thought id give floor tailing a bash!
What started out as just tiling the kitchen then turned into the kitchen and conservatory and a bit more 
This was how the floor was before:
So up that came, was pretty easy! good solid floor underneath!
The down with the new, hardest part was finding a starting point that was central to the arch and middle of the kitchen!
And finished and grouted (waiting for a polish so look a bit dull)
Havent actually got a picture of the conservatory before, it was just laminate as well, not very nice!
After taking it up i found it was chipboard underneath and insulation and look slike it was leaking at some stage!
This was going to be no good for tiling on as it was to soft and spongy! and your not meant to really tile on chip board as tiles absorb the moisture through and rot the chip board.
So removed all insulation back to the concrete base, Screwed down some supporting beams.
Reused the insulation and cut it back in, was like it was snowing downstairs for a week the stuff was everywhere
Then got some 8x4 sheets of Marine Ply for the tile base (luckily a mate was working on site where they had loads of it so got it all for £20 where as it would have been nearly 35 quid a sheet at wickes 
I was rather chuffed with it at this stage seemed to nice to tile on
then cracked on with the tiling!
And then thats kinda where the plan changed, that was meant to be it 
Decided that i wanted to make more use of the conservatory durring the whole year rather than just the summer months!
So started going at the wall with the grinder, this was fun 
Mounted some speaker brackets at each end
Fished some electrics through
Shape was cut a specific way
Burried some trunking into the wall for all the AV cables
Fitted the TV on a canter-leave bracket so it can be pulled out and angled if need be and easy access to cables!
Then decided to give plastering a go
Then this where i had a further idea (should have really done all this before titling (what a mess lol)
We didnt actually need the kitchen window so out that came with a hack saw!
Filled the cavity with expanding foam and insulation then plasterboard and a bit more plastering!
Then fitted some new lights out there, you can also see the cable entry for the AV leads, coax going down for aerial.
Fittted trunking along the top for the AV cables, blends into the roof line so not noticed, fitted a power socket for the TV, hard wired it off a socket i put in for the tv, fed surround sound, HDMI in and foom for a few others if ever needed.
Tiled the rest of the window porch bit
The fitted a new rad with a much higher BTU to keep it nice and warm in the winter months! New skirting and also got a little cabinet to keep the Surround sound, DVD player and Media centre in.
At the other end we have our dining table so plenty of room out there, might migrate the PS3 down there at some stage! looking forward to the summer months when i can open up the double doors and crack open the beers and get the BBQ out with the tunes and everything
All in all im happy with it, only cost me the materials and i learnt a fair few new skills along the line 
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Simon
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Long as you can block the sunlight from being on the TV will be ace
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Liam
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Great job on the DIY, quite brave aswell!
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Graham88
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That looks cool mate!
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AndyKent
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Looks 
I love how peoples confidence grows and the jobs just get bigger and bigger. Since moving into my place I've gone from not knowing how to do a good decoration job to pretty much decided to scrap and refit my whole kitchen
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Conway563
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Nice work Nath 
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Fro
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Can't wait to have a house to tinker with
Good work
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Jamie Walby
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What did you use to cut the tiles? We have Tommy Walsh Diamond Tile Cutter and its amazing! I wouldnt be without it!
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Whittie
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Looks fab mate
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noshua
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Jesus, nice transformation. How long did it take you in total?
Is the black thing in the last picture the cabinet or a massive sub? If it's a cabinet, will it keep cool with all the equipment in?
I take it you fed the PS3 HDMI from another room?
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Ben G
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really nice job that.
never seen a ceiling light used on the wall though the circular one looks quite odd, but the new 5 job one looks nice.
good idea with the radiator in the conservatory. ours got so cold in winter and because it's open plan with the living room, we had to have the heating on constantly 
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danzx2
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Nice plastering. Want to do 8 ceilings round mine?
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Nismo
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Cheers guys! The benefit of learning to do stuff yourself means you never have to pay anyone
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Originally posted by Jamie Walby
What did you use to cut the tiles? We have Tommy Walsh Diamond Tile Cutter and its amazing! I wouldnt be without it!
I just bought a Wickes 900w water cooled tile cutter for £30, its spot on
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Originally posted by noshua
Jesus, nice transformation. How long did it take you in total?
Is the black thing in the last picture the cabinet or a massive sub? If it's a cabinet, will it keep cool with all the equipment in?
I take it you fed the PS3 HDMI from another room?
Took me a few months as I could only work at the weekends, The black thing is a cabinet for the AV gear.
The PS3 has a HDMI going back to the cabinet, this was before the AV kit was fitted.
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Originally posted by Ben G
never seen a ceiling light used on the wall though the circular one looks quite odd, but the new 5 job one looks nice.
good idea with the radiator in the conservatory. ours got so cold in winter and because it's open plan with the living room, we had to have the heating on constantly
Round one was fitted when we moved in, didnt really have a lot of options as there only 1 wall to fix anything to and the bar seemed the best option.
Ours used to get stupidly cold in the winter and as it was open plan to the kitchen it was a nightmare to heat up so swapped the 100BTU rad for a 6000 BTU one, made a lot of difference!
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Nice plastering. Want to do 8 ceilings round mine?
Sure thing, £35 per hour and i will take about 3/4 months to complete
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Dan
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Whats the score with planning, a conservatory, no external doors between the house and conservatory, and having a rad connected to the main house?
I was under the impression you couldnt do any of it?
Im looking at adding a conservatory in the near future, so if you can do all this, and ive read it wrong ill be an even happier bunny!
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Dan
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Because adding a central heating system to a conservatory no longer means its a temporary structure.
I belive it can be done if it is independantly controlled and operated (isolation valves and trv's as a minimum)
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Dan
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Ben G
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if you remove the external doors between the main living area and the conservatory then it can cause problems, but when we bought our place it was already open plan and we just said we were going to put doors up and the solicitor said that's fine.
can't be that strict as a house opposite us that's also up for sale have no doors and a big radiator in the conservatory.
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Jake
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whats the tiles like on that floorboard? i cant see the grout staying in one piece for very long mate you should have tiled straight on concrete but i suppose you would have a step down then
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deano87
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Originally posted by fro-dizzle
Can't wait to have a house to tinker with
Good work
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AndyKent
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan
Whats the score with planning, a conservatory, no external doors between the house and conservatory, and having a rad connected to the main house?
I was under the impression you couldnt do any of it?
Im looking at adding a conservatory in the near future, so if you can do all this, and ive read it wrong ill be an even happier bunny!
Planning isn't that much of a problem, its building regs.
If you create a habitable room (ie. one that has heating) then you have to meet the insulation performance parts of the building regs. That means insulating walls, high performance glass, roof insulation. Getting that lot sorted on a proper conservatory = ££££
You can just do it anyway but it might be flagged up when you come to sell. A lot of people won't care, but your solicitor might.
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Nath
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Lovely job
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the floor should be alrite as long as its solid and no movment the only thing i would have done is stagger the boards instead of having the joints all in one line but other wise looks a good job
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Robbo
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Nismole you little jack of all trades you Looks coolios
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