Renovations
Updated April
24th 2005
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Cass and his
wife Noelle have moved into the house this weekend. Although the
house is not complete, it's at a stage where it's liveable. We'll
continue to work on the house over the coming year. The next major
works are construction of the deck at the rear, and the landscaping
of the front and rear yards.
Simon and his
brother Cass have been renovating their Grandmother's house since
August 2003.
40 Years of
neglect have taken their toll on this 78 year old Californian
Bungalow in Hawthorn East. We've encountered rotting timber, sinking
foundations, loose masonary and cracking plaster to name a few of the
problems.
The major problem
was drainage. There were three, 20 metre high pencil
pines growing
close to the front of the house, and several large trees growing
close to the rear of the house. The guttering had failed at both the
front and rear of the house, and water was washing off the roof at 2
points (1 front, 1 rear) on the East wall. Over time, this had washed
away the soil under the foundations. The worst of it
was at the North East corner of the house. Underpinning of the East wall, and some
of the North wall, was completed in November 2003.
Other jobs
include:-
Rebuild:
- Laundry
- Kitchen and
verandah subfloors
- Rear wall of
3rd bedroom & verandah (now a sunroom)
- Wall under
living room window
Repair:
- 5 sets of sash
windows (2 singles, 2 triples and 1 double)
- Lead light
windows
- Sand &
polish floorboards
- Masonary
- Restump 4
rooms
- Main roof
beam
- Recap
roof
- Eaves and
fascia boards
- Replaster
every room and most ceilings
- Tessellated
tiles on front verandah (including new concrete slab)
Install:
- New
kitchen
- New
bathroom
- Central
heating
- New
carpet
Paint:
- Remove paint
from nearly all surfaces
- Repair
damaged/rotten timber
- Repaint
everything
Plumbing:
- Replumb entire
house
- Replace
guttering and storm water drainage
Electrical:
Gardens:
- Remove shed
and clothes hoist from rear yard
- Excavate front
and rear yards.
- Landscape
front and rear yards
- Create
driveway and pathway
- Bulid deck at
the rear of the house
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Here are some
photos of the work that we've done so far.
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Front Rear Laundry Kitchen and
Sunroom
Plastering Windows
Front
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The 20 metre
high pencil pines had to go
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The house is
revealved
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This corner
of the house was sinking and has now been underpinned. Note
the cracks! This is the wall outside the living room (shown
in the photo on the right). The guttering had completely
failed at this corner of the house, and water was washing
away the soil from under the foundations.
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We're
replastering nearly every wall in the house. We uncovered
this feature window in the process. The large crack above
the window on the left is the internal version of the
external crack shown in the photo on the left.
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