[bohuler]

I've be giving my folks shit for the last few years about the state of the shit kitchen. It was built in the 70's and is farked to put it nicely
A couple of weeks ago, just before he went to china, my old man gave the go ahead to reno the kitchen!!
The cabinet maker was first called. He came along and along with input from me and the old lady a plan was organised. The old man left for china, leaving mum with all the decisions to make
The kitchen has been stripped down and cleared out.
The study has been taken back to nothing and the plaster came thru yesterday to fill some holes.
The laundry is emptied and ready to strip down.
I'll get pictures up tomorrow before I start painting and stripping out more.
Stay tuned for an awsome reno
Dave

[Rusho]

I like pictures

[atari4x4]

i see lots of words.... make with the pics.

[SLYjoel]

atari4x4 wrote:

i see lots of words.... make with the pics.

What she said.

[bohuler]

Pics coming tomorrow

[zooky08]

Reno's ain't cheap. Exapecially kitchens

[bohuler]

This one is coming in at 22,000 for the cabnetry, thats a full kitchen, laundry with laundry sink and over head cupboards, and a study which include a massive L shaped desk with 2 sets of drawers and one wall worth of shelving. The kitchen is vinyle wrap doors, with ceasar stone bench tops. The rest of the cabnets are laminex. The kitchen is getting a new floor of secret nails, end matched spotted gum with a urethan semi gloss finish Pics have been taken today will be loaded up soon
The study is getting a paint job and new cabnetry. the laundry has timber lining boards atm (so 70's :p), which is getting stripped and plastered up. The kitchen is getting totally stripped out, floors ripped up, restumping, straighting and leveling floors and then the new strip flooring installed. There is an arch way into the lounge room thats getting moved to the right 300mm with a mofo 240x45 F17 beam getting installed above to take some roof props. Then when the archway is moved right 300mm the whole opening to the lounge room will be opened up creating an awsome open space
Pics are coming!! Will look maaaad as when i've done
Dave

[bohuler]

p.s that makes the whole reno come in at under $30,000

[tonka_tuff]

pics or it never happens........





sounds like its gonna be sweet but!

[bohuler]

The study, previously a bedroom, just luuuuv the pink!


The kitchen. The demo has started and will go nuts on saturday



Dave

[tonka_tuff]

i like the ceilings!! they look awesome!

[zooky08]

My rents did a hole house renovation including two completely new varandas. Our hole kitchen is made out of Silky oak. It's crazy how it goes from a old crappy kitchen to a new one.

[atari4x4]

i'm guessing the pink room was yours?

[Polar_Bear]

nom nom nom western red cedar ceilings?

[Built4thrashing]

atari4x4 wrote:

i'm guessing the pink room was yours?

To match his pink fairy dress

[steve]

tonka_tuff wrote:

i like the ceilings!! they look awesome!

I thought the photos were upsidedown

[PJ.zook]

steve wrote:

tonka_tuff wrote:

i like the ceilings!! they look awesome!

I thought the photos were upsidedown

Could you imagine a fan hitting you in the shin, would prob hurt as much as one hitting you in the head... it does hurt.

[bohuler]

Update time!!
Study is finished. Friday it got 3 coats of paint and the second coat of enamel on the woodwork. Came up smick as.

Getting rid of the pink, YAY for Dulux Prepcoat


The colour going on the walls and roof is Cargo White, looks kinda funky against the vivid white prepcoat, but came up smick as.


I forgot to get finished photos. I started at 8am and finished the last coat of enamel on the woodwork at 7pm, with a nice cold beer to help finish the painting! (I'll get pics or a vid of the finished room tomorrow!)

Yesterday was heaps of fun. Had a chippy mate and the other 3rd year apprentice giving me a hand. Gooooooooood bye kitchen and heeeeellllooo frame!


Where did the floor go??? INTO THE BIN!!!!


One of the minor problems that I've come across. The extension my old man put in 25years ago, the floor joists run the wrong way for my strip flooring.

Easy enough to fix, will just have to put chipboard yellow tounge down before putting the floorboards over the top.

When in doubt, use a hammer. If still in doubt, hit it with the SLEDGEHAMMER!!!!


And what a kitchen looks like after its been removed. Almost filled the 6 meter bin, bloody glad I didn't get a smaller bin



All the stumps need to be replaced. Pain in the arse. 26 stumps to replace and only 1 day to do them :p Thats tomorrows job along with start to straighten and relevel the floor. Order all the timber this week and start to rebuild next weekend

Dave

[bohuler]

Update time. Last week during the week a few bits and pieces fell off as I cleaned up. As the plaster came off the wall to the lounge room, found that there was no support under the props holding up the roof.
Oh fuck, the roof is about to fall down, the roof was held up with plaster
Better get some acro props in!


Wall proped and stud wall going in.


Floor joists heading the wrong way....


No more floor joist!


Sexy wall with micky mouse beam holding up the roof!! Thank fuck the roof didn't fall down!! ALtho I had to jack the roof up about 50mm so the rest of the house has cracked to the shit house.


Straighting floor. The floor ran out 35mm to nothing over 2.7 meters!!!


Chopping concrete to relocate ducted heating...


YAY! It worked!!


New floor joists! SMICK AS!!

[Moph]

Them there studs need some noggings at half-height (or 1350mm max vertical centres). The noggings strengthen the studs significantly in compression as they preven the studs buckling out sideways. If you don't have them in then roof loads on that lintel are likely to cause long-term deflection and bowing of the studs which could cause cracking of your new plasterboard or worse.

Also looks like you need another joist bearer in the concrete slab area, alongside the heating duct. No idea what timber grade or size you've used but it looks like about 90x35 at 450c/c. In MGP10 that has maximum span 1400mm (or 2100mm if they're at 300c/c) for joists that are continuous over two or more spans.

[royce]

Moph wrote:

Them there studs need some noggings at half-height (or 1350mm max vertical centres). The noggings strengthen the studs significantly in compression as they preven the studs buckling out sideways. If you don't have them in then roof loads on that lintel are likely to cause long-term deflection and bowing of the studs which could cause cracking of your new plasterboard or worse.

Also looks like you need another joist bearer in the concrete slab area, alongside the heating duct. No idea what timber grade or size you've used but it looks like about 90x35 at 450c/c. In MGP10 that has maximum span 1400mm (or 2100mm if they're at 300c/c) for joists that are continuous over two or more spans.

That will be $875 +GST thanks, payable to Mophs internet engineering

[bohuler]

Cheers Moph! Its actually 90x45 F17 hardwood (its all that I ever use as bearers and joists internally) and the span of f17 is 1.8. I have under spanned it at 1600, and also I know that wall needs nogging, its a work in progress. Needed to get the beam up pronto so I could remove the acro props and start leveling the floor. Once the spotted gum flooring goes down next weekend, the walls will finish being nogged (2 rows of noggings) finished being straightened and then plastered Taken most of the evenings off this week, so back into it next weekend!

[bohuler]

p.s the ceiling height is 2550, a sheet of 1350 and a 1200

[Moph]

All good then

I admire your get-into-it-ivity. I'd have completed the demolition, sat back and thought 'What the feck did I just get myself into', then gone out for a beer

[Polar_Bear]

Moph wrote:

Them there studs need some noggings at half-height (or 1350mm max vertical centres). The noggings strengthen the studs significantly in compression as they preven the studs buckling out sideways. If you don't have them in then roof loads on that lintel are likely to cause long-term deflection and bowing of the studs which could cause cracking of your new plasterboard or worse.

Also looks like you need another joist bearer in the concrete slab area, alongside the heating duct. No idea what timber grade or size you've used but it looks like about 90x35 at 450c/c. In MGP10 that has maximum span 1400mm (or 2100mm if they're at 300c/c) for joists that are continuous over two or more spans.

and new regulations require 400mm clearance underneath the bearer down to natural ground..... start digging

[Moph]

Polar_Bear wrote:

and new regulations require 400mm clearance underneath the bearer down to natural ground..... start digging

BCA requires 400mm clearance under bearers only if access for termite inspection is required. If you have alternative termite treatment (eg chemical reticulation) then you can reduce to 150mm clearance.

Just for the sake of being argumentative

[Built4thrashing]

Yeh what he said.

[bohuler]

To get really picky now... the BCA has been superseeded by the National Construction Code 2011.... which is exactly the same book but with a different name

[Moph]

bohuler wrote:

To get really picky now... the BCA has been superseeded by the National Construction Code 2011.... which is exactly the same book but with a different name

To get really, really picky the BCA 2011 is actually still the correct title for the Building Code of Australia. It hasn't been superceded by the NCC ... it's been incorporated into it.

The title on the front cover of Volume Two for example says:

National Construction Code Series
Volume Two
Building Code of Australia 2011
Class 1 and Class 10 Buildings

So it's now incorrect to say 'BCA Volume Two' as we used to. It's now 'NCC Volume Two' which is the 'BCA for Class 1 and Class 10 Buildings'.

Alright - back to building things already

[bohuler]

I don't care what its called!! I build shit over the top anyway (unless its rear bars! )

ANYWAY!!!! The study was installed today. The cabinet maker has done an amazing job!! I'll let the pictures do the talking
(btw, its bloody awsome to see something for all my hard work finally )


The new desk and overhead shelving. All in Laminex and loooking smick!



The overhead shelving




The desk...



The drawers are soft closers with no handles, VERY sexy



And finally the new wardrobe insert with a shitload of storage space for all my mums shit



The spotted gum flooring goes down on Saturday, then the plaster gets hung next week and the plasterer comes in and stops it up mid next week, it gets painted, the laundry cupboards go in (they are ready to go now) then in a week or 2 the kitchen goes in!!
Very exciting!!
The floors will be left for 4 weeks to settle in then on the 8th of November the floor sander comes in and will sand and put 3 coats of 2pac on it and this PARTY time!!

Dave