I enjoyed that a lot. Takes me back to the mid 80s when extensions and conservatorys were all the rage, just day after day of non stop grafting. Nice one.
Thanks @Craig Andrews. Looking round our way, extensions are definitely the rage at the moment. A bit cheaper than moving, and I think that's big influence.
Great vid. Makes me realise just how much work (and cost) relatively modest extensions can be. Looks like the trades did great job. Hope you are happy with it all, congrats! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Credit indeed @ShanD D. Well, you say sandy, but around here it is very chalky. A lot of the white spoil is this chalk and, having had a go at it myself, it was bloody hard work. I'm not built to be a builder. 🤣
@@jonnylarge At least it wasn't clay, that's all there is round my way! Nightmare, sticks to the spades and everything. Makes it 10 times more back breaking than it needs to be.
Very much so Eureka Comment. There's a balance between heat generate (through the greenhouse feel) and the light entering. Today's windows, glass and doors and becoming more and more efficient though.
Good job and very similar to what we are having done to our home. We went for a sloped roof though as it looks better and it's less likely to cause problems, but on the flip side you have a bit more space on top of the bifolds. The other thing we have decided to do differently is installing the kitchen after the floor goes in so the units sit on top of it. Oh, and we also took up the floor in the old kitchen/diner to retro fit underfloor heating there as well (the extension area pipes were, like yours, buried under the sand and cement screed, while the old area has overlay boards). Well done though, you can never go wrong when you invest money to extend your own home.
Thanks for the reply @Buddy Pagano. You raise some good points. For us, both were about excessive disruption and the value added with the extra cost. To extend the heating into the old kitchen would have cost a lot in time, labour and mess taking up the old floor (as our builder wanted to insulate it properly) so we took the risk that we might get away with having the appliances that throw out heat giving us the warmth that we need. It has seemed to have worked but, if you don't have slippers or shoes on, you can definitely feel the change from the new floor to the old as you walk on it. As an aside, we control this underfloor heating with a Nest (3rd Gen) thermostat and it's learnt both our routine, and the speed at which the space warms up very well. A very clever piece of kit that works very effectively. In terms of the roof, a pitched roof would be best, but we couldn't take it across the entire width of the house. The garage roof on the right hand side would have required re-roofing to facilitate it. Again, that cost was prohibitive.There was a point in time where we thought about an extension that only covered two thirds of the width of the back - maybe leaving a small patio area outside our garage door. We decided that that space would never see the sun and be a bit wasted. As our garage is converted into a living family space, we wanted to access it easily at the back. What the video does not show much of is that we put a partition wall inside the already-converted garage, across the middle of the space. The half of that space nearest the new extension is now a utility room, housing the gas boiler, washing machine, tumble dryer and second fridge/freezer (which can a life saver!). As soon as we discussed the idea of a utility space, and had seen the flat roof, parapet and GRP solution then that seemed to be our ideal setup. Good luck with your build!
Jon, great job and a really useful addition to your home! I like the way you handle the less positive comments-lol. I built a 3m x 6m similar extension for a friend in 2021 came in at £50k, she thought it was expensive ( that included all decoration and kitchen). Getting the plans drawn for mine on Monday, 3.5m x 7m , this will extend the current extension so will end up with a 7m x7m kitchen/living area. It’s scary how much material costs have risen in the last 18 months. All the best Shane.
Thanks @Shane Foster. I'm trying not to rise to them too much 😆. I'm not sure where you're based in the UK, but we are in the home counties which we think adds to our costs. Our space has added 3 x 9m to our home, and made a huge difference to us. We are confident the cost will be recouped in the value of the house, but not necessarily increase it by more than cost. However, we feel it was worth it. We checked with a few neighbours who had work done, with different builders, and our costs were on a par with theirs. So, despite the expense, we felt it was competitive. Don't forget to time lapse yours when you do it!
I built one on my rental myself, 3mx8m, 11k it cost me. No kitchen though. You can get a 700mm micro digger through doors and track barrow, 220/day. Saves on labour and one's back.
@@RobertRedford77 Good point about the micro-digger. Before this, in the early 2010s, we had some landscaping performed in the back garden and they used one to move soil about. Our builder had had different experiences with using them around the South East of the UK and didn't want the weight of one caving in the foundations hole, as had happened previously. These lads were used to it, and on some days made it look easy. I had a go for an hour and was knackered 🤣
I do not normally if at ALL watch videos like this but very good indeed How you did this in 1 day is mind-boggling! Must have you round ours need quite a bit done.... ✌🤜🏽
Nice video mate 👍 Given me quite a lot of ideas for my upcoming kitchen extension, especially using the same tiles in the kitchen/diner and outdoor patio!
Thanks @Nazmul Hussain. Have a look at my reply to nbronco04 below. I've just written about the indoor/outdoor floor finish and some of the decisions that we had to make. In that reply I talk about the width of the bi-fold door track and the role of the steel above the doors. There's also some regulations about drainage away from the extension and what needs to be where. There's some expensive choices that you may have to consider.
Thanks @msg4asif. I've written in some replies about the indoor/outdoor finish and some of the decisions that we had to make - as we thought that the same flooring in and out would help this concept. We would have loved a narrower track in the floor for the doors to move down to make the finish really clean. This meant hanging the doors from the top, rather than seating them in the floor, in the wider track. It was explained that the door steel/lintel used to hang the bi-fold doors from would have added a lot more cost as it would need to be bigger and stronger. There are also some regulations about drainage away from the extension and what drains needs to be where and at what height.This meant for us that the outside floor is a couple of inches lower than the inside. The same flooring inside and out helps bring the outside in a little, but that extra effort with a narrow track and same height flooring would add to it, but would cost a lot more. In terms of the flooring, we felt porcelain tiles was the way to go. The ones we choose are weatherproof, and appropriate for indoors too (which rules out vinyl, laminate and natural wood). There was some choice at the supplier we used, which was CTD Tiles, who are nationwide (and I do not work for them by the way 🤣) These are some expensive choices that you may have to consider with this whole outdoor-in vision. Let me know what you think, and good luck with your project!
Thanks @Zsolt Ocsko. It's a good point...but the engineering required to strengthen the roof and space required for access would have raised the budget too far.
That's what we thought @nissan 300zxtt. We had a week of very cold weather in mid-December, with plenty of snow and ice but, do you know, it wasn't too bad. It seemed to thaw and dry which prevented the ice reforming.
Similar job to mine (which was wider with 2 lanterns). I opted for the steel supporting the opening from the house to be in the ceiling void so the ceiling runs seamlessly into the extension adding to the feel of one room.
Thanks for the reply @Jamie Bourne. Funnily enough, we considered several options for this particular steel. I'll just talk about the first option we considered. The part of the old house in between the back garage door and the old kitchen window is a key structure to the old house. We did want a steel across the new opening that continued across the back of the garage. The trouble with this is that we would need a steel across what is now the new location for the hob. Where these two steels meet would need support. As we have the loft converted though, and the weight that generates, this area would have needed a lot of costly strengthening work. Also the steel across that width of the house would have need to be of such a strength, and therefore, height that it's top edge would've been above the back guttering of the garage. This would have needed garage roof work, adding further cost. I mention this it is what has led to the positioning of the current steel. We would have liked the seamless opening but the compromise we have ended up with hasn't worked out too bad.
@Jon Large In that case I would've gone for your option! My particular steel was a goal post that returned under the floor-a complete rectangular frame, builder swore a little!
Awesome! I would have made a Tarrace on top of the extension with entrance from one of the rooms on first floor, although planning permission applies here I believe. It is my dream to build one like this.
Not sure on the planning permission @WheelyDoctor, but the remodelling of the internal first floor to allow for this, and the extra engineering for the roof was not within budget.
Thanks for the comment. Difficult to comment on the hours, but I will share the following. The builder was appointed in February 2021 and the construction started in June. 95% of the build was completed by mid-September. However, the days were getting cooler and more damp which makes outdoor tiling a little more risky to complete. So we had to wait until the following summer for the outdoor tiling to be completed.
They were @Richard Courtman. They kept us up to speed with what was happening...even let me have a go at some stuff. I helped build the retaining garden wall, and did some plastering. One of those went better than the other.🤣
Good job boys, you dragged that job out a bit though didn’t you?😂😂😂 Seriously great job and great video, really nice to see grafters. Keep up the good work.👍🏻
🤣 One thing I would add though @Jamie Skinner is that I am the home owner not the builder. In all seriousness, my advice to fellow non-builders looking at this type of work is to remember your builder has a business to sustain and will not be committing 100% of their resources to your project for the months that they start and finish.They will be spreading risk across multiple projects. Our builder was managing multiple projects at different stages and we were aware of this, and I was already aware of how it comes together as a project manager at my own work. Resources and projects juggling is an art, and materials and labour aren't always where they need to be at the time they are needed. Despite meticulous planning, things happen (take the weather for example). If you are reading this: not all builders are bad, so cut them a little slack now and again and, unlike some people who have left comments to this video, #BeKind.
Enjoyed watching this. I've just completed a similar but much smaller kitchen extension. Good luck with flies on the skylight after the bifolds have been open 🙃
As a plasterer and working with builders I’ve never worked on an extension that goes as well in real time but looks great in time lapse 🤣 face value looks great, all that would cost 3x as much now 😢
@@williammills1702 Just a reckoning, but I have no facts to back that up. I am just a home owner rather than a builder so happy to be corrected if that's not the case.
A fair point @Daniel Finley. We are happy with this look, and the risks that come with it - so we are not shocked. Felt roofing just didn't appeal to the aesthetic we wanted. We see it similar to the rendered outside walls - they will need all need some regular maintenance.
@@jonnylargeI wouldn’t worry too much, do you know what GRP system was used? Most modern blends allow for movement and heat etc. Lovely build btw, just came across the video - I’m having a double story side extension and a rear extension that will measure 2.5m by 8m so not too far short of what you had done.
I'm not sure what they used@@danieledwards4378 - a layer of stinky glass fibre, then a couple of coats of stinky paint? I'm sure there's some technical descriptions that I could use 🤣
I think they want to balance the size of the building and the size of the garden. There isn't the space to do both when the houses on the estate are first built. We decided to eat into some of our garden space as we spend more time in the house.
I'm afraid that I don't @Robert Littlejohn. Boiler installation, which was a major operation for the utility space wasn't great material 🤣. However, I wished that I had filmed it. Our garage was converted back in 2007. I was only in to photos then, rather than video, and they can be found on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/71894657@N00/albums/72157600336629556). So we started with a habitable space in the garage and, for the extension, we split it in half - the front (south facing) half being turned into an office and the back half turned into the utility space. The builders built a stud wall across the middle - which houses some electrical sockets and water pipework. In terms of the water in and out of the boiler, the pipework from the original location of the boiler in the old kitchen was extended into the garage loft and down into the new boiler. Drainage and waste gases from the boiler just passes out through the extension wall. The utility space contains a washing machine and a tumble dryer. Drainage from the washing machine comes out of the new utility space through the kitchen wall and into the old drain beneath the sink. We kept the sink in the new kitchen in the same place so that water and drainage services did not need moving. The tumble dryer has a warm air exhaust and this is passed down a wide poly pipe to the extension wall to the side, through an air brick. We had a free-standing fridge/freezer and moved to an integrated fridge/freezer. This is has considerably less capacity than a free-standing so we kept our old fridge, and that also sits in the utility space. The utility space also has a worktop and a few hanging cabinets. I reckon, from memory, the room is about 2m by 3.5m in size.
Great video. But curious to know what you did in the tiny gap between you and neighbour. Is that left unfinished or somehow can that be rendered too, or was that finished in red brick? I couldn’t tell. I never know how they deal with the small gaps between neighbouring properties
Thanks @Rico 1071. It's still a 1.5-2 inch gap. The side of the wall that is visible to our neighbour is rendered and painted. There's about 12 inches worth top to bottom. The rest is exposed block work - as exposed as it can be. We've had a lot of rain since it was finished and haven't had any water problems just yet.
Looks very nice, but I feel like there was a missed opportunity to do a flat reinforced glass panel and have terrace on top to witch you could walk out to from the 2nd floor if you'd replace one of the windows with a door entrance.
Thanks @JohnGodwin. Sadly the finishes to the exterior are limited by budget...and that they don't make the bricks for our house any more, thus the rendered finish.
Great editing skills, the 5 hour footage of the tea breaks no where in sight 👍
😆Thanks king77703! Tea breaks don't make for the best footage 🤣
lol
Yeah real workers don't take breaks or spend time off with their family they just work forever without stopping.
@@fedyno4reviews Pretty much my approach to editing this video.
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I enjoyed that a lot. Takes me back to the mid 80s when extensions and conservatorys were all the rage, just day after day of non stop grafting. Nice one.
Thanks @Craig Andrews. Looking round our way, extensions are definitely the rage at the moment. A bit cheaper than moving, and I think that's big influence.
Great vid. Makes me realise just how much work (and cost) relatively modest extensions can be. Looks like the trades did great job. Hope you are happy with it all, congrats! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
We're delighted with it @BitandBob 1. Cheers for taking the time to comment!
Looks like a brilliant job👍 the footage captured is amazing, usually dont see too much of both inside and out but this was excellent.
Thanks Craig. A lot of credit to the contractors who let me do this.
Looks AWFUL
Imagine if you could finish an extension this quickly, you could work for a year, then retire.
Great job lads 👍
Cheers @Scott83271. Imagine indeed. Not for me though...too much physical labour this desk jockey. 😂
Good job guys. Always on the look out for good, honest & trustworthy builders.
...and the team we used were exactly that.
Respect to them for digging the footings by hand! Looks like a nice sandy soil helped..
Credit indeed @ShanD D. Well, you say sandy, but around here it is very chalky. A lot of the white spoil is this chalk and, having had a go at it myself, it was bloody hard work. I'm not built to be a builder. 🤣
@@jonnylarge At least it wasn't clay, that's all there is round my way! Nightmare, sticks to the spades and everything. Makes it 10 times more back breaking than it needs to be.
@@shandd9640 I bet!
Loved the sun roof and the glass doors. Need all the glass you can get in because of cloudy rainy UK weather…
Very much so Eureka Comment. There's a balance between heat generate (through the greenhouse feel) and the light entering. Today's windows, glass and doors and becoming more and more efficient though.
The UK does have a spring and summer you know. The sky is blue with no clouds as I type this message.
Good job and very similar to what we are having done to our home. We went for a sloped roof though as it looks better and it's less likely to cause problems, but on the flip side you have a bit more space on top of the bifolds. The other thing we have decided to do differently is installing the kitchen after the floor goes in so the units sit on top of it. Oh, and we also took up the floor in the old kitchen/diner to retro fit underfloor heating there as well (the extension area pipes were, like yours, buried under the sand and cement screed, while the old area has overlay boards). Well done though, you can never go wrong when you invest money to extend your own home.
Thanks for the reply @Buddy Pagano. You raise some good points. For us, both were about excessive disruption and the value added with the extra cost.
To extend the heating into the old kitchen would have cost a lot in time, labour and mess taking up the old floor (as our builder wanted to insulate it properly) so we took the risk that we might get away with having the appliances that throw out heat giving us the warmth that we need. It has seemed to have worked but, if you don't have slippers or shoes on, you can definitely feel the change from the new floor to the old as you walk on it. As an aside, we control this underfloor heating with a Nest (3rd Gen) thermostat and it's learnt both our routine, and the speed at which the space warms up very well. A very clever piece of kit that works very effectively.
In terms of the roof, a pitched roof would be best, but we couldn't take it across the entire width of the house. The garage roof on the right hand side would have required re-roofing to facilitate it. Again, that cost was prohibitive.There was a point in time where we thought about an extension that only covered two thirds of the width of the back - maybe leaving a small patio area outside our garage door. We decided that that space would never see the sun and be a bit wasted. As our garage is converted into a living family space, we wanted to access it easily at the back. What the video does not show much of is that we put a partition wall inside the already-converted garage, across the middle of the space. The half of that space nearest the new extension is now a utility room, housing the gas boiler, washing machine, tumble dryer and second fridge/freezer (which can a life saver!).
As soon as we discussed the idea of a utility space, and had seen the flat roof, parapet and GRP solution then that seemed to be our ideal setup.
Good luck with your build!
its great workmanship when they tidy up after themselves
Good too see that your builders appeared to a proper job, even covering the cavities so they didn't get any water in them before the roof went on.
Thanks @simonridley.
Amazing what being filmed will do....
@@simontaylor2525 Not sure what you're suggesting there Simon?
This is the sort of thing I dream of, thanks for posting!
No problem @Jon D. Thanks for the comment.
Jon, great job and a really useful addition to your home! I like the way you handle the less positive comments-lol. I built a 3m x 6m similar extension for a friend in 2021 came in at £50k, she thought it was expensive ( that included all decoration and kitchen). Getting the plans drawn for mine on Monday, 3.5m x 7m , this will extend the current extension so will end up with a 7m x7m kitchen/living area. It’s scary how much material costs have risen in the last 18 months. All the best Shane.
Thanks @Shane Foster. I'm trying not to rise to them too much 😆.
I'm not sure where you're based in the UK, but we are in the home counties which we think adds to our costs. Our space has added 3 x 9m to our home, and made a huge difference to us. We are confident the cost will be recouped in the value of the house, but not necessarily increase it by more than cost. However, we feel it was worth it.
We checked with a few neighbours who had work done, with different builders, and our costs were on a par with theirs. So, despite the expense, we felt it was competitive.
Don't forget to time lapse yours when you do it!
I built one on my rental myself, 3mx8m, 11k it cost me. No kitchen though. You can get a 700mm micro digger through doors and track barrow, 220/day. Saves on labour and one's back.
@@RobertRedford77 Good point about the micro-digger. Before this, in the early 2010s, we had some landscaping performed in the back garden and they used one to move soil about. Our builder had had different experiences with using them around the South East of the UK and didn't want the weight of one caving in the foundations hole, as had happened previously.
These lads were used to it, and on some days made it look easy. I had a go for an hour and was knackered 🤣
How much do you think your one will cost?
I do not normally if at ALL watch videos like this but very good indeed
How you did this in 1 day is mind-boggling!
Must have you round ours need quite a bit done....
✌🤜🏽
Well done for sticking with filming, not easy, great to watch.
Thanks @Paul Morris. Credit to the contractors for letting me do it.
Fantastic work mate, looks incredible. Top quality finish all round too
Thanks @schmurgen
Nice video mate 👍
Given me quite a lot of ideas for my upcoming kitchen extension, especially using the same tiles in the kitchen/diner and outdoor patio!
Thanks @Nazmul Hussain. Have a look at my reply to nbronco04 below. I've just written about the indoor/outdoor floor finish and some of the decisions that we had to make. In that reply I talk about the width of the bi-fold door track and the role of the steel above the doors. There's also some regulations about drainage away from the extension and what needs to be where. There's some expensive choices that you may have to consider.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Very satisfying!
This is my dream to buy off a house and adjust it. working towards it , love the build house extension!
Beautiful workmanship
So true @joeythelips2341
What a transformation! Really enjoyed this, brilliant video mate
Thanks @Chunk London! Glad that you enjoyed it.
This was amazing to watch, well done 👏🏽
Thanks @DivineFeminine_01
Love it, very professional. No corners cut like you get with some cowboy builders!
Thanks Kamran.
Great video, given some great ideas really bringing the outside in.
Thanks @msg4asif.
I've written in some replies about the indoor/outdoor finish and some of the decisions that we had to make - as we thought that the same flooring in and out would help this concept. We would have loved a narrower track in the floor for the doors to move down to make the finish really clean. This meant hanging the doors from the top, rather than seating them in the floor, in the wider track. It was explained that the door steel/lintel used to hang the bi-fold doors from would have added a lot more cost as it would need to be bigger and stronger.
There are also some regulations about drainage away from the extension and what drains needs to be where and at what height.This meant for us that the outside floor is a couple of inches lower than the inside. The same flooring inside and out helps bring the outside in a little, but that extra effort with a narrow track and same height flooring would add to it, but would cost a lot more.
In terms of the flooring, we felt porcelain tiles was the way to go. The ones we choose are weatherproof, and appropriate for indoors too (which rules out vinyl, laminate and natural wood). There was some choice at the supplier we used, which was CTD Tiles, who are nationwide (and I do not work for them by the way 🤣)
These are some expensive choices that you may have to consider with this whole outdoor-in vision.
Let me know what you think, and good luck with your project!
Fair play digging them by hand
an extension in 8minutes.. Fantastic!
It's a Hollywood extension 😂
Great video and excellent job.
Thanks for sharing 👍 👏 👏 👏
Thanks @youngedwards3265
Proper job by proper builders.
Thanks...they were a great team.
Loved watching this! Awesome work
Thanks @hayleymay5699
Bloody amazing guys, this is exactly what I’m looking for.
Thanks @mo jo
Yeah I know the sense of satisfaction you guys feel, yesterday I made a minecraft house in a really cool place
Great work @LondonSpade
Very good looking extentsion, congratulitations! If it was me, i probably put up there a small balcony patio.
Thanks @Zsolt Ocsko. It's a good point...but the engineering required to strengthen the roof and space required for access would have raised the budget too far.
That flooring outside is going to be lethal in winter ....
That's what we thought @nissan 300zxtt. We had a week of very cold weather in mid-December, with plenty of snow and ice but, do you know, it wasn't too bad. It seemed to thaw and dry which prevented the ice reforming.
Well smart. Glad the house and garden flow, nice touch
Thanks @5pur5
Awesome builders, excellent result. x
Thanks Annie.
Great memories of my kitchen extension such a nice feeling when it's done and all you think is I wish I had done it sooner
So true @Joseph Joyce...it would've been cheaper for a start!
Brilliant video! … Thankyou I appreciate you!
Brilliant job with the lawn😂 saw how you just put topsoil over the existing lawn. End result is lush 😂
Thanks! Topsoil and new grass seed was a bit ropey - but it was a dry old summer.
Similar job to mine (which was wider with 2 lanterns). I opted for the steel supporting the opening from the house to be in the ceiling void so the ceiling runs seamlessly into the extension adding to the feel of one room.
Thanks for the reply @Jamie Bourne. Funnily enough, we considered several options for this particular steel. I'll just talk about the first option we considered. The part of the old house in between the back garage door and the old kitchen window is a key structure to the old house. We did want a steel across the new opening that continued across the back of the garage. The trouble with this is that we would need a steel across what is now the new location for the hob. Where these two steels meet would need support.
As we have the loft converted though, and the weight that generates, this area would have needed a lot of costly strengthening work. Also the steel across that width of the house would have need to be of such a strength, and therefore, height that it's top edge would've been above the back guttering of the garage. This would have needed garage roof work, adding further cost.
I mention this it is what has led to the positioning of the current steel. We would have liked the seamless opening but the compromise we have ended up with hasn't worked out too bad.
@Jon Large In that case I would've gone for your option! My particular steel was a goal post that returned under the floor-a complete rectangular frame, builder swore a little!
@@jamiebourne8047 I bet they did! Good example of up cycling though.
Wow that looks great 👍🏻 well put together too enjoyed watching that 👌🏻👏🏻
Thanks @Angela Robinson
wow, very impressive. and so realistic.... right even with the dirty dishes in the sink.
Cheers @Bob Finkenbiner. They're still there!
I really enjoyed watching that! Thanks for making it
Hi @David Ball. Thanks for taking the time to comment. It was definitely a labour of love!
Great video. You make it look so easy👍
🤣 Thanks @simon walker.
I'm just the film-maker - believe me, that's way easier than the builder's efforts!
Absolutely spot on video, loved watching it & it gave me some mega ideas for something we r going to have done similar 👍🏽👍🏽
Might have to ponder over those ideas over a mega pint haha
Super. Thanks @Simon Chamberlain.
Absolutely bang on
Great looking project 👌👌🏴
Awesome! I would have made a Tarrace on top of the extension with entrance from one of the rooms on first floor, although planning permission applies here I believe. It is my dream to build one like this.
Not sure on the planning permission @WheelyDoctor, but the remodelling of the internal first floor to allow for this, and the extra engineering for the roof was not within budget.
Top job, BRAVO !
That was a thorough job
Thanks @Cal bo
Great job lads
Thanks @Perry Rumble
Great work.looks really cool
Thanks Tony.
How many straight working weeks (5 day working weeks) would you estimate this took to build? Excluding any pauses, delays etc
Thanks for the comment. Difficult to comment on the hours, but I will share the following.
The builder was appointed in February 2021 and the construction started in June. 95% of the build was completed by mid-September. However, the days were getting cooler and more damp which makes outdoor tiling a little more risky to complete. So we had to wait until the following summer for the outdoor tiling to be completed.
Great building
Thanks @layz_lewis399!
Superb video !
Thanks @doshi100
Amazing work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks!
this is incredible
Thanks @carlospallete3030! Very kind of you to comment.
Cant wait to see it wen u do the garden aswell
Hi @bobbyboy4496...I've just added a time lapse to my TH-cam channel of some decking work we have done. Have a look and see what you think.
Looks like you had pretty good builders
They were @Richard Courtman. They kept us up to speed with what was happening...even let me have a go at some stuff. I helped build the retaining garden wall, and did some plastering. One of those went better than the other.🤣
Good job boys, you dragged that job out a bit though didn’t you?😂😂😂
Seriously great job and great video, really nice to see grafters. Keep up the good work.👍🏻
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One thing I would add though @Jamie Skinner is that I am the home owner not the builder. In all seriousness, my advice to fellow non-builders looking at this type of work is to remember your builder has a business to sustain and will not be committing 100% of their resources to your project for the months that they start and finish.They will be spreading risk across multiple projects.
Our builder was managing multiple projects at different stages and we were aware of this, and I was already aware of how it comes together as a project manager at my own work. Resources and projects juggling is an art, and materials and labour aren't always where they need to be at the time they are needed. Despite meticulous planning, things happen (take the weather for example).
If you are reading this: not all builders are bad, so cut them a little slack now and again and, unlike some people who have left comments to this video, #BeKind.
This is the first 3D printing build I have seen.
200.000 € thank you haha, good job guys !
😂
Amazing video. The render on the right side of the doors was absolutely shocking tho, the patch that come out and got put back in
Thanks @Smokes. It's not too bad in the final result, so we accepted it for what it was.
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing, real pros at work 👍
Cheers @Danny Mistry
Enjoyed watching this. I've just completed a similar but much smaller kitchen extension. Good luck with flies on the skylight after the bifolds have been open 🙃
Thanks @Ollie Card. We're already there with that! Small price to pay though don't you reckon?
@@jonnylarge Yeah, defo worth it overall. Although I have had a house full of flies on many occasions!
@olliec1319 grow lavender in your garden then crop it and dot it in vases around the door areas and anywhere you don't want flies.
Or use lavender oil.
@@NewGameComingSoon Thanks for the tip, I'll ty that. As they do fill up the skylight very quickly and killing them is not something we do.
Drill out the downlights before the plasterer just to annoy him… I do it all the time 😂
I've no idea what this means, but it sounds great, annoying or both.
Good job there lads
Thanks @nazar9794.
Great job gents, looks the business 👍
Thanks @Amreek Singh
Did the same over two years and saved myself 40k by doing it myself. Handy when you can.
Wise words James. Sadly, I don't have the skills or patience.
How much did you spent?
@@devsip2277 £40k in total.
I wonder how much that would cost?
Stunning
Thanks @pauloshea5483.
Really good work that
Thanks @Sott
As a plasterer and working with builders I’ve never worked on an extension that goes as well in real time but looks great in time lapse 🤣 face value looks great, all that would cost 3x as much now 😢
Cheers @Kevin O'Toole. What happens in real time, stays in real time ;-) I reckon your estimates of cost aren't too far off.
@@jonnylarge why would it cost 3x as much now?
@@williammills1702 Just a reckoning, but I have no facts to back that up. I am just a home owner rather than a builder so happy to be corrected if that's not the case.
Amazing job
Thanks @Sajad Ahmed
Stunning build and great to watch
Thanks @Mike Wakeford
Wow, that's amazing
Thanks @Leona
Nice work
Thanks @Kmwky3011
Cracking video that was great stuff 👍
Thanks @Micky Dola!
@@jonnylarge 🤝
Brilliant guys
Thanks @Steve Williams
Beautiful
Looks great apart from the GRP roof it’s a shocker of a system,no movement will delaminate and already has ponding,it’s the gift that keeps giving,
A fair point @Daniel Finley. We are happy with this look, and the risks that come with it - so we are not shocked. Felt roofing just didn't appeal to the aesthetic we wanted. We see it similar to the rendered outside walls - they will need all need some regular maintenance.
@@jonnylargeI wouldn’t worry too much, do you know what GRP system was used? Most modern blends allow for movement and heat etc. Lovely build btw, just came across the video - I’m having a double story side extension and a rear extension that will measure 2.5m by 8m so not too far short of what you had done.
I'm not sure what they used@@danieledwards4378 - a layer of stinky glass fibre, then a couple of coats of stinky paint? I'm sure there's some technical descriptions that I could use 🤣
@@danieledwards4378 Can I ask how much you ended up paying for your extension?
Unreal!
Why dont they build houses already with the extension?
I think they want to balance the size of the building and the size of the garden. There isn't the space to do both when the houses on the estate are first built. We decided to eat into some of our garden space as we spend more time in the house.
Good builders do amazing jobs
They did.
Great vid!
Thanks @Kevin Smith
Great work!
Thanks @Curtis Thomas
Feels like I've just entered a game of Bloxberg
Thanks @Squidlings. I guess you mean Roblox? Disappointing, as I was after a Construction Simulator feel. 🤣
Great job do you like your new house extension
Thanks @thebrummierailenthusiasts5329
@@jonnylargeno worries Jonathan
Amazing! I want one!
Thanks @Zand Voort.
Good job
Thanks @azizjajou570.
great Vid👌✌
Thanks @xelgs11
Hello, my extension plans are very similar. Which involves the garage like this. Do you have other videos of how you restructured the garage.
I'm afraid that I don't @Robert Littlejohn. Boiler installation, which was a major operation for the utility space wasn't great material 🤣. However, I wished that I had filmed it. Our garage was converted back in 2007. I was only in to photos then, rather than video, and they can be found on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/71894657@N00/albums/72157600336629556).
So we started with a habitable space in the garage and, for the extension, we split it in half - the front (south facing) half being turned into an office and the back half turned into the utility space. The builders built a stud wall across the middle - which houses some electrical sockets and water pipework.
In terms of the water in and out of the boiler, the pipework from the original location of the boiler in the old kitchen was extended into the garage loft and down into the new boiler. Drainage and waste gases from the boiler just passes out through the extension wall.
The utility space contains a washing machine and a tumble dryer. Drainage from the washing machine comes out of the new utility space through the kitchen wall and into the old drain beneath the sink. We kept the sink in the new kitchen in the same place so that water and drainage services did not need moving. The tumble dryer has a warm air exhaust and this is passed down a wide poly pipe to the extension wall to the side, through an air brick.
We had a free-standing fridge/freezer and moved to an integrated fridge/freezer. This is has considerably less capacity than a free-standing so we kept our old fridge, and that also sits in the utility space.
The utility space also has a worktop and a few hanging cabinets. I reckon, from memory, the room is about 2m by 3.5m in size.
Looks great.👍👍
Thanks @Scott Beattie
Great video. But curious to know what you did in the tiny gap between you and neighbour. Is that left unfinished or somehow can that be rendered too, or was that finished in red brick? I couldn’t tell. I never know how they deal with the small gaps between neighbouring properties
Thanks @Rico 1071.
It's still a 1.5-2 inch gap. The side of the wall that is visible to our neighbour is rendered and painted. There's about 12 inches worth top to bottom. The rest is exposed block work - as exposed as it can be. We've had a lot of rain since it was finished and haven't had any water problems just yet.
Pretty freaking sweet man. Well done. What’s next!!?? Haha
Thanks @Christopher Costello.
We were thinking a nuclear power station next.
looks mint
Thanks K
WOW WOW WOW love it
Thanks @S S
Solid British construction, unlike what we see over the pond in USA
Thanks @Waseem Ahmed. I think it's getting better over there. Either way we will always be envious of the space that they have to play with.
@@jonnylarge Yea space is a luxury as don't have. Nice neat work, good finish.
Looks very nice, but I feel like there was a missed opportunity to do a flat reinforced glass panel and have terrace on top to witch you could walk out to from the 2nd floor if you'd replace one of the windows with a door entrance.
This is really good. I wonder who these builders are?
Thanks @bernadetteraeburn1219. Here you go (from the video description) - "Construction and Project Management by Albury Building and Construction"
Absolutely brilliant Timelapse, and some excellent work, but holy shit that house is a monstrosity.
Thanks @JohnGodwin. Sadly the finishes to the exterior are limited by budget...and that they don't make the bricks for our house any more, thus the rendered finish.