Ash_EP3
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Right I am a bit behind with this because my old man bought the house 5+ years ago 
I haven't got a picture of the whole house but the only picture I have found is a picture which shows all of the houses my dads is on the left (the right hand side of it)
He bought the house back in 2003/2004 for £290,000 it needed a lot of work doing (the whole house needs a refurb)!
The house consists of 4 floors:
Ground Floor
Kitchen (in development)
Lounge (in development)
Study (in development)
Toilet (in development)
Utility room (in development)
Conservatory area  (in development
Garage (door to attached garage) (Garage almost finished)
Pictures from November 2008
Digging up the foundations for the extension!
Building the extension
Recently the ground floor and garage has been fully refurbed / in the process of being refurbed (god knows how much it cost my dad  ) I took some pictures of this with my phone last night (not very good pictures im afraid  )
Garage (still in a mess)
Conservatory sorta room
You may notice the stairs on the side in here (waiting to be fitted) they are custom built oak stairs cost my dad £5k 
Hallway
Kitchen area
What it used to look like...
Front door
Utility area / study room
1st Floor
Drawing room (needs to be refurbed)
Dining Room (needs to be refurbed)
Bedroom with en-suite (in development)
Rabbit gets a place in the new bedroom
Old back garden pic (not all of it) comes with a Great Dane puppy too
How the back garden is looking at the moment
Will update the thread later on c+c welcome 
[Edited on 26-06-2009 by S214_UPP]
[Edited on 09-02-2010 by Ash_EP3]
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VegasPhil
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Immensley interesting house there! Is that pressurized hot water system?
How big is the plot?
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Nath
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Is he doing it up to sell?
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_Allan_
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Wow that looks a good project. Keep the thread updated 
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DannyB
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Lovely, your dad must be wedged
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Ash_EP3
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quote:
Originally posted by VegasPhil
Immensley interesting house there! Is that pressurized hot water system?
How big is the plot?
Cheers, I asked my dad about it last night and he said it's mains pressurised and pumped through as well it needs to be really with the amount of sinks / showers / baths we'll have!
edit: not sure on how big it is either it doesn't have a huge front or back garden (will get more pics at some point)
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Originally posted by Nath
Is he doing it up to sell?
Eventually, I think or he said that this will be part of mine and my siblings inheritance!
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Originally posted by _Allan_
Wow that looks a good project. Keep the thread updated
Cheers, I will try and find some older pics of the house to show what work has been done etc so you guys can see the difference and how the house is coming along!
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Originally posted by DannyB
Lovely, your dad must be wedged
Not quite,
Well it's his and my stepmums place I think their joint income is over £100k a year but most of it goes on the house!
I forgot to mention earlier that the plans for the ground floor are:
- Under floor heating throughout
- Slate flooring throughout (as seen in some of the pics) the orange mats on the floor have been put down to absorb the movement of the slate
- Open floor plan (only doors will be to the toilet, garage etc) makes it look a lot bigger!
Just a general refurb really, my dad and stepmum are also trying to make things alot more original too the cornece (sp) work which is seen in the en-suite and will be used throughout the house is a pain in the arse to put up and expensive but it does look the part!!!
So far I think it's cost them over £100k but it'll look really good in say 5 years time or so!
I will also update with more upstairs pics... thanks for the comments so far! 
[Edited on 23-05-2009 by S214_UPP]
[Edited on 24-05-2009 by S214_UPP]
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Ash_EP3
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Took some snaps of the front garden today!
The hedges definately need a trim back and with it being half term next week I get the joy of helping out! 
Note the huge container is there temporarily as it contains most of our stuff from the garage
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Whittie
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Ace project mate, looks a lovely house
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Graham88
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Good project
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rustyarchs
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jings
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Ash_EP3
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jings
eh?
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Ash_EP3
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Only a quick update, the stairs that were seen in the above pictures have now been fitted haven't put the pics on my laptop yet but will do soon and more tiling has been fitted on the kitchen room floor!
Will get some pics up soon thanks for looking
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quote:
Originally posted by S214_UPP
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Originally posted by rustyarchs
jings
eh?
= impressive
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dannymccann
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Looks like a shit load of work Is this the first renovation project he has undertaken? If it is hes chosen the daddy to begin his portfolio
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Ash_EP3
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quote:
Originally posted by rustyarchs
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Originally posted by S214_UPP
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Originally posted by rustyarchs
jings
eh?
= impressive
Ah Cheers pal
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Originally posted by dannymccann
Looks like a shit load of work Is this the first renovation project he has undertaken? If it is hes chosen the daddy to begin his portfolio
His last place was a run down old cottage which was bought for £60 and sold for £200k
Thanks for the comments so far guys
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dannymccann
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So he made £199940 profit (- renovation costs)
When you say £60, do you mean £60 from 1970 when it was worth £150k in todays money?
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mattk
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that is a mains pressure unvented hot water system with fully pumped central heating
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Ash_EP3
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
So he made £199940 profit (- renovation costs)
When you say £60, do you mean £60 from 1970 when it was worth £150k in todays money?
Sorry meant £60k
Yea made quite a wedge on it!
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Ash_EP3
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More snaps peeps:
Stairs are in
Cabinet for what will be fridge and other units next to the fireplace in the kitchen
Oven still packed (it's a beast)
Underfloor heating gauge
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Ash_EP3
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Ok update time!!!
Over the XMAS period we have been very busy concentrating mostly on the kitchen and here are the results so far:
Will post more / better pics in the light as well this weekend! Thanks for looking
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Awesome place!
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16vKarlos
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spot opn matey.. your old man has got a nice taste dude.
If thats not your old mans taste. i want your mum lol (JOKE)
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Colin
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That looks amazing!! Massive kitchen
I was tempted with under floor heating but the electric stuffs expensive to run & the plumbed in stuffs an arse to fit so I left it.
Cold feets
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