If you’re an attentive reader (and I assume you are), you must have noticed that I skipped a part between taking down the wooden ceiling in our former kitchen and installing the insulation. You know, the part where things get really dusty, removing the old lath and plaster. Fear not, for I can make up […]
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After the floor came the next step towards our new kitchen: insulating the little flat roof that’s keeping the weather outside of our kitchen. Insulation is also the magical word when renovating, so we couldn’t escape it. Not that we ‘d want that, of course.
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I’ll start by bringing a memory back from a while ago: getting rid of the old floors. At the end I told about what the future would bring, up to the new tiles: concrete, wiring and plumbing, insulation, tiles. You have three guesses where we are now. Go! Well done! The insulation is where we
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With the water tubing in place, I rolled out quite a lot of electrical cabling (those of you that already noticed in the photos, well done!). As with the water this required some planning beforehand, as we were trying to find out what we wanted to go where. But we managed, and how!
More laying out: electric cables Read More »
Some things you can’t do yourself. Most things I can. The things I cannot do myself aren’t the easiest ones to write about. So for a change something I did myself again: water tubes!
Laying out the ground floor water tubing Read More »
Yes! Finally! The much-anticipated plumbing post! Before digging any deeper, we had to come up with a plan. A plan on how we wanted to use all our to-be-floored-again rooms. So we needed…
On being a plumber Read More »
Bad luck if you’d guessed we would continue the draining works now. No no no no no (and once more, no), we weren’t ready yet to create drains all the way. First, some more demolition needed to be done, so for a little while longer, we could keep messing around breaking stuff away from the
The demolition continues… Read More »
Now that we emptied a few rooms, it’s time to really start diggin’. Diggin’ deep that is. Let’s just dive in, shall we? Depending on how serious your renovation is, at some point you’ll need new electrics and/or new plumbing of any kind. If you’re on the ground floor with no basement or cellar, you
Floor? What floor? Read More »
Now that we know how we want our future bathroom to look like, it’s time to start building up things. First thing we need, before we can start doing anything, is to do a little thinking about what we want to do with the room above though…
Drains, drains and plumbing everywhere Read More »