Older vans/trucks

[billpierce]

@billpierce how's the box coming along Bill?

Sadly zero progress eggs, other than noticing leaky windows etc.....have bought a new gaff which hasnt been lived in for a good while ( no electrics) so renovating that and working has taken over.

Truck is out of mot and parked off the road so eating no meat, suspect itll be on the back burner until the house is vaguely livable.

I forget, did you sell your bus eggs?

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, billpierce said:

Sadly zero progress eggs, other than noticing leaky windows etc.....have bought a new gaff which hasnt been lived in for a good while ( no electrics) so renovating that and working has taken over.

Truck is out of mot and parked off the road so eating no meat, suspect itll be on the back burner until the house is vaguely livable.

I forget, did you sell your bus eggs?

Good news about the new place, sounds like you've got your hands full.

 

Still got the bus.

[billpierce]

Good news about the new place, sounds like you've got your hands full.
 
Still got the bus.

Certainly have, got a digger on hire making a track so it is can be driven to, then need to sort out alot of renewables, and wiring in house, insulate all the walls, renew windows, few wooden floors down, convert an attic into a bedroom, sky lights in, re fit bathroom, carpets upstairs, jobs a gooden!

[AHPP]

11 hours ago, billpierce said:

On 16/01/2020 at 18:38, eggsarascal said:

Good news about the new place, sounds like you've got your hands full.
 
Still got the bus.

Certainly have, got a digger on hire making a track so it is can be driven to, then need to sort out alot of renewables, and wiring in house, insulate all the walls, renew windows, few wooden floors down, convert an attic into a bedroom, sky lights in, re fit bathroom, carpets upstairs, jobs a gooden!

Sounds excellent. Updates please.

[eggsarascal]

11 hours ago, billpierce said:

On 16/01/2020 at 18:38, eggsarascal said:

Good news about the new place, sounds like you've got your hands full.
 
Still got the bus.

Certainly have, got a digger on hire making a track so it is can be driven to, then need to sort out alot of renewables, and wiring in house, insulate all the walls, renew windows, few wooden floors down, convert an attic into a bedroom, sky lights in, re fit bathroom, carpets upstairs, jobs a gooden!

Should be done by Easter then, not that big a job...

 

pictures as you go Bill, if it derails this thread most won't give a flying.

[billpierce]

Here are a few random pics of what its like just now

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Nice

[silky fox]

Wonderful

[eggsarascal]

That's a cracker Bill, are you going to put wood floors over that stone floor?, I think that looks the dogs. It does look rural, how far are you from the nearest town/village ?

[billpierce]

That's a cracker Bill, are you going to put wood floors over that stone floor?, I think that looks the dogs. It does look rural, how far are you from the nearest town/village ?

Its an amazing stone floor, some of the slabs are 4ft square. Ideally id lift it stick a dpm in, insulate and underfloor hearing pipes in, and re lay it, but this will be pretty expensive/mega time consuming, so toying with idea of insulating and laying a wooden floor on top with v shallow timbers laid on the stone, this wouldnt destroy the lovely stone if we ever wanted to change in future, also a pita. If it was just me there id probably just put up with a damp cold floor like. But hey ho.

Only about 1.5 miles to the big lights of allendale, which has a coop and pubs. 20 mins to hexham, which has a few builders merchants and that, so its not too far out, but also not really on the way to anywhere else. Only about a couple miles from where we stay at the minute, but bigger and with a few fields and bit of wood.