You get smart about things when you do it the hard way and when the roof was being done I prepped and painted new quad to go under the guttering ( No cutting in when getting around to painting the outside.
And out it all comes better to go right back with the bathroom for water proofing etc, interestingly after over 100 years no water damage under and under the pine lining, then masonite board where the old cedar bathroom boards, was tempted to go heritage renovation here but decided on a more contemporary modern bathroom.
Great window can open it right up to the verandah, walls sanded and primed and painted so much easier without architraves and skirting boards can roll all the way
This is getting pretty photo intensive now and a picture speaks a thousand words, I was really driven at this point of my life, I had a girlfriend who was working I all wanted to do was this house. Later found she was sleeping with a cough good friend of mine whilst she was living in my investment house prior to Dad passing away ( It worked well as she rented the rooms to Uni students and that was paying the mortgage of that). the house I owned was for investment to buy this one off my so called caring sister , the so called GF was now living with me as Dad had died, little did I know, more to come on that later as things got pretty hairy!!
All along the furkids where getting along just fine, Juno is the little Maltese Shitzu I had rescued from the RSPCA in 2006? would be 16 now and Hurley is 6, back then Hurley would only be 1 at best, just a normal training day
Brilliant job, Ben. You mentioned your previous work experience (in IT), but are you a carpenter as well? Whatever the score, you have done a superb job renovating your home. Bravo, Sir.
Hey thanks @JohnRain, no just follow my passions, thats why I am here as well :), can’t seem to find a completed bathroom photo but that’s ok. I said to myself after those room never again little did I know what I would put myself through. I thought that was hard !!
I will never do this again and has certainly been a labour of love.
Funny my IT work is so limited but my life skills have brought me here, never afraid to try something new and that whats keeps my mental cognition happy, I thrive on that. So much more to come on “This old house”.
Keep pursuing those passions, finding projects that are a labour of love, challenging yourself, sharing and throwing yourself out there. Expressing self-confidence, especially after dealing with a lot of difficult experiences, is really cool, Ben. Mad respect, bruva.
Hey thanks mate, it really is the only way, when life gives you lemons make lemonade hey! I really have been a kind hearted person as well through out my life, and to be told by someone over 20 years ago that people you know are just playing on your kind heartedness really hit home and not in a good way.
It took me a long time to realise that people actually use people and don’t even care deep heartedly, I thought maybe I just have met bad people, but it has taking a long time but a good lesson that most people are just ■■■■■. I have been fortunate enough to met some people and pretty special in hindsight that are truly good. It reinforces my belief in myself and I hope from my little story that someone else can find it inside themselves to not worry about people and things that might bring them down and pursue what they love.
I have a guitar sitting in the corner that I so want to learn to play and that will come, right now I am so happy with Essendon and going to keep pushing through as this club and it’s supporters are my family to me.
Some fantastic work there mate. Looks fantastic in the pics.
I love doing renos on Old places and restoring them to their former glory, . but it a hell of a lot of work to get it right.
Fortunately I employ young blokes to do the humping work these days, and focus on the craftsmanship side more, but I know what it’s like to do it on your own, as I often did back in the day, and even as a qualified Chippy with loads of experience in it, it was still a hugely laborious, time consuming, exacting task to achieve a good result.
Was around January 2015 and decided to start on the outside, I had already done some at the back and was using tungsten scrappers, belt sanders and orbitals, the finish was not what I was hoping for, so the only way to get this looking right was to remove 110 years of paint.
I found it better to prime then repair as he helped showed bad spots, so many nails needed re punching , gods know how many kilos of builders bog was used to help!
