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                       Stages of work from Victorian room converted into top class Kitchen including chimney removal,UB Beam,new floor,walls & ceiling.
 
                       We can do the exact same professional job for you as well, make us your 1st port of call !!!!
 
        The chimney had to go !                     Steel going in through the side.                Steel installation carried out.   Don't forget to get calculations for the beam.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
100mm concrete lintel's for pad-stones to spread the loading.    Lower section of chimney removed.                Lintels over pipes, new cavity wall being added.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 All walls stripped of render, back to a blank canvas.

 

 

 

Old lathe & plaster ceiling down,1st fix electrics go in new 100mm Rockwool fitted to up house 'U' value.

 

 100mm Celotex board also fitted over Rockwool (building regs requirement) & in beam web.

 

                    600mm of ground dug from floor, 1200 gauge vapour barrier goes in,70mm lean concrete,new sleeper walls & timber plates fitted ready for joists.

              150mm x 50mm tanalised joists @ 400mm centers with battens either side at low level to take Celotex insulation board, air bricks @ 800mm centers.

 

 

 

 

 

         

       Insulation goes in, new 25mm Marine Ply laid,screwed @ max 200mm centers (insures no movement for tiled floor), noggins between joists at ply edge.

15mm Fireboard on ceiling with staggered joints, all electrics 'mapped' out for lights etc, brickwork cleaned from dust & loose material, wetted down & a washed sand 'dubbing' coat applied, render beads fitted, scratch coat applied & 'keyed' up ready for top flat coat including a water proof additive, 'keyed' using a nylon float, ready for multi-finish plaster coat once its dried sufficiently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once the walls are dried and all plumbing fitted the room was decorated, new bespoke kitchen fitted including black granite worktop cut in nice & neat, Job Done !!!!