Renovating a Victorian Terraced Flat - Part 1
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- I'm getting twitchy to do another renovation - over the years we've done quite a lot of them. Before we start our next project I wanted to show you some of the jobs we've done over the years. This was about 17 years ago and was our first move in to Gosforth - a classic Victorian terraced flat built around the 1900's. These 'Tyneside flats' are very common in this part of the world and are great renovation properties. Absolutely solid and if you score for an upstairs one they generally have huge lofts. Anyway, property tour in this episode and I'll show you the existing plans. I'd love to hear what you would have done to a property like this with a budget of around £15k. Next time I'll show you what I did and if you have any questions I might cover off some more detail in a part 3, depending on what you ask about. Anyway, hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane! With any luck we'll be out of lockdown soon and I can take you through every step of our next project.
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Fair play to you both Andy for taking it on while expecting a baby. Ohh the power of youth, no job too large and anything and everything in your stride.
I vaguely remember the feeling 😄👍🏼. Looking forward to part 2.
Cheers Mark! I think it was just blind faith that we'd somehow get it done. 😂👍
Reminds me of my sister's flat in Benwell back in the 80s when she was a student at Newcastle. Upstairs flat, and a mirror image of yours. Loads like that, quite beautiful really.
They're great flats - absolutely solid. 👍
Jakey’s plan: burn it, collect insurance, buy a place without having steps.
Gads reminds me of carrying a 37” tube tv up four flights to my old flat eons ago.
Now it takes 3 minutes and a handrail to get up my 4 steps. NEVER get old.
Lol cheers Jake! 😂 Oh yes, I think we had the 32" Sony beast in that one. Was state of the art at the time!
I'd agree. But I really don't like the alternative. Maybe just plan for old age.
Currently trying to buy our first home.... starting to get addicted to your videos and find them helpful for what to look for - thank you!
For some reason I've watched this video three times now, I suppose I need to know what happens next. Can't wait for the next video Andy
I renovated a property last year here in Shropshire. Overboard and skim all nasty RTEX ceilings, clean and skim all walls that needed it. New boiler and radiators throughout, fresh neutral paint throughout, new kitchen, tiles and carpets. All woodwork sanded down and painted. I did this for a snip over £8000 and now have teants in situe. Your property is screaming to have the chimney palled out and a new master bedroom in the loft space.
Why pull out the chimney it’s part of the structure and even if u did pull it out you really wouldn’t gain that much room
Love the channel, great to see properties in Gosforth where I grew up and still live.
That’s Hyde Terrace! I sold my flat there in 2014. Mine was upstairs, but we turned it into a 2 bedroom.. extended the kitchen into the bathroom on the offshoot, and moved the bathroom to the back bedroom.. had to move when the kids came along
New stairs in back yard to make space for parking, loft conversion to give another bedroom/study/playroom, make bathroom smaller and kitchen bigger - just a few ideas. Great video, I look forward to the rest
I'll not give anything away - same time next week. 👍😉
Looking forward to the rest of the series 👍
Cheers Pete! 👍
Damn that is a relic of a PC
I'm gonna enjoy this series!
Hope so - cheers Miguel! 👍
Light a match, and run. Lol. Honestly looking forward to see what you did, looks like a huge reno
Hi Andy, really looking forward to a few renovation vids from you, gets me itching to start a new one!
My brother-in-law lives in a Tyneside flat where the loft has been converted to a master bedroom so I’d definitely say that’s a go-er, and judging by the other garage doors, turn the steps around in the back you’re mars to make room for a car.
Cheers Darren - watch this space! 😀
More renovation videos please :) very good and you commentate the video very well!!
Ah. Up and down flats. Memories of living in Bensham. Also remember going over to my pal's place in Heaton. Basically same layout.
Indeed! I was in one in Heaton for a while - was great but there's was a major woodworm problem in that one... luckily we didn't own it. 😀
I like the attic with ensuite idea. A cheaper way for car parking / workshop would be metal stairs from existing level platform to the side and then descending. Check fire regs for attic conversion in case you need seperate egress. Do all your demo first and then remove carpets. For a cheaper price You could buy ready made fibreglass pods . You cold hide the waste along the wall yourself. It might next to the living room. Then make the living kitchen one big space. In time think about solar for the roof. Maybe run cables. To the hot water cylinder to the attic. Don't let people notch you joices. You cad drill them. You end up with squeaks. A space for pram if it's possible at the bottom of the stairs. Will you use the rear access more often. A one thing moving a rear door might require planning.
Being upstairs, you don't have many options to move plumbing around. It also would not be a good investment to turn this into a one-bedroom flat. If it were a one bedroom, swapping the living room and the bedroom would work nicely. Then you could create a lovely master bath. But there's really no space to add a second bathroom to service a second bedroom, so the bath has to remain accessible from living space. I do imagine that you put the kitchen back where it used to be.
My wife and I are retired and living in independent senior (no children) apartment which is cooperative (we have ownership of shares equal to the value of our apartment). There is about 50 sq m. (550 sq ft) it is billed as a 1 BR unit. We put a Murphy bed and side cabinets in our BR. This makes the BR into a sitting room during the day. The dual use of that room is important. We did over our kitchen to get the best for the space cabinets and turned lower cupboards into drawers to reduce bending over. The standard refrigerator (freezer/refig) was changed over to a refig top and freezer drawers bottom, again reduced bending over.
Vermont ("Northeast" living like you) seem quite far away from your "North East" but I truly enjoy your channel. Great information and inspiration for me as I embark to create my small workshop to support my home improvement goals. I look forward to seeing how the renovation turns out. Your local architecture is intriguing.
"Irrelevant drone shot" 😂😂😂
I'm sure we did a few houses over that way, I know we did a lot in Gateshead. The firm we worked for were buying cheap, renovating on a low budget, then renting them out to refugees. Wood chip wall paper, magnolia walls, white ceilings, white wood work throughout. The families that got them were usually quite large, so a little overcrowded most of the time. Obviously not the way I would do things if it were my own home or project. Can't wait to see what you did to the place....... :)
Cheers Dave! Saw lots of woodchip before we found this one. 👍😂
I'd make the front 2 rooms the living/kitchen area as one big room and make a single large bedroom/ensuite in the back. the loft potentially a spare room/home office
Interesting! Not a bad idea. Watch this space! 👍
My MIL had a pair of tynesiders flats in Hyde the gosforth. Identical layout. I'd have living room at front as that rooms huge with kitchen along side. The two other bedrooms at the back serviced by the existing bathroom. The loft turned into a master with ensuite. The yard rear stairs re-jigged to give u parking with a roller shutter door as the parking found there is chronic. Love to see yr finished result.
Oh very close on a couple of your suggestions! Only trouble with turning the living room in to a bedroom is that you'd have to go through that bedroom to get to the bathroom. 👍
I am assuming local ordinances will limit what changes you are allowed to do. I would want to replace front and back doors with much sturdier, burglar-resistant doors and would want to replace the old windows with insulated ones. I would want to remove all the fitted carpeting, especially that on the interior stairways, and either refinish the existing wood floors or cover with a sturdy solid surface flooring. I would want to install handrails for the interior stairways and for those back steps and make sure there were smoke detectors and CO detectors in each bedroom, the stairwells and the kitchen. If I was not re-installing fireplaces, I would make sure something was done to keep the heated interior air from going up those chimneys. I would also want all the electrical wring and plumbing carefully checked and any needed repairs or replacements done right away.
My first house was a two up two down terrace in Northwich. Fantastic sunsets! I did a fair bit of work, when local councils were still giving away money for renovations!!! But my one gripe was the stairs and landing so narrow.
Oh wow - money for renovations!? Yes please! 😂
@@GosforthHandyman that era has looong gone....I got a new slate roof, CH, D/G and a new bathroom out of that money.
Lucky your one was solid, my victorian house is 1907 and just had the front repointed. When I chiseled the front wall in the master bedroom for a socket in April, I had to cement the bricks in as it was all crumbling. Hopefully, now it will be more stable after the front was done. Also removed some lose cement near the outside of the bay window pillars to find gaping holes on both sides filled with newspaper from November 1959. It took 2.5 bottles of expanding foam to fill them. Before refill, I left a plastic bag with the bit of the newspaper and a letter from Boris about corona, date of doing the work, and a message from me of what I think about this whole thing. No one will find it any time soon. 👱♀️ 😂 Looking forward to your next video.
Ha that's fantastic! Love finding stuff like that in properties. These houses / flats seem to have tiny mortar lines, for whatever reason. Can barely see the pointing. Worked in some where the mortar is more or less just sand. 😬👍
@@GosforthHandyman, you can see the mortar lines on mine, the sand is just behind 🤣
@@GosforthHandyman that sounds like tuck pointing. It was done to hide irregular bricks.
An option could be, turn the existing living room into the master bedroom with the bathroom becoming an en-suite walkthrough wardrobe. The existing kitchen into a family bathroom with storage. Bedroom 1 and 2 would create the living, dining kitchen to the front of the house with a cased opening between. Accessed to the loft space above the existing stairs opening centrally. Two good size bedroom could be created in the middle space with lots of eaves storage. This could also be done in stages.
Looking forward to seeing what you did.
Is that what is known as a Duble rar, with Cundie etc?
3rd Bedroom in loft conversion if the staircase can land in a sensible place (is there space for 2 bedrooms up there?). The main landing looks very cramped with doors opening into the space. Is there outdoor coats and boots space down at the front door? Expand the kitchen into one of the existing bedrooms. The back landing for the back stairs looks like there could be space for bathroom expansion. Was there scope to turn the back yard into a workshop? I'd try to keep the back yard as out door safe play space for youngster(s), not to mention washing line etc. (I know condenser dryers exist but babies make lots of washing). The third bedroom could be fitted out as office. It will be interesting to see what you did. Gwen
Originally were these flats single 2 story houses with 3 bedrooms? Then at some time a bathroom was built on to the 2nd floor plan when indoor toilets became common?
Then later the house was turned into 2 separate flats to accommodate 2 living arrangements?
I would not do anything to the attic. The coast would be prohibitive for what space you would add. Maybe just put a couple of wood flats over the floor and one could store their Xmas decor and seldom used luggage, etc. No reason to go to the cost of rehabitalitation of attic floor use.
I am interested in the original history of the structures like these flats. They look similar to early row houses or town houses we have in Philadelphia. I grew up in that type of one family house as they are ubiquitous in early city development in eastern US cities.
Nice job, like seeing the bluepribts.
Ground floor rear extension and put a skylight or dormer in the roof with a new staircase creating an extra room/floor
Andy, same as my first renovation, except it was the whole terrace house ( yes I’m that old) before flats were invented. We bought from the old dear who had lived there since the 1920’s so it needed re wiring, plumbing, floorboard joists, and I’ve never seen so many layers of wallpaper in my life! But back to the question, as ai priority, I’d go for adequate living and cooking space, a nice bedroom for us, and maybe a thought for the bairn in the second or third bedroom. Can’t do a lot with the bathrooms in the sticking out bit, except maybe convert the whole thing to a bigger bathroom and move the kitchen. Looking forward to seeing what you did!
Some of the terraced houses of similar design are huge - great potential. Watch this space! One thing we really didn't like was having to pass through the living room to get to the bathroom. 👍😀
Gosforth Handyman That’s where your Dad tells you what “ load bearing walls” are!
The 'Tyne flat' was built that way- not a conversion. There were thousands of them, my parents lived in one in the forties- before the loo moved inside!
Think I’d just let the squatter stay and call it good. 😂 look forward to seeing what you did. Great idea for a series. Looking forward to it 👍
Cheers Rod! If only they were paying rent. 😂👍
The sand will be my house 🏡 😂
What I I would do:
1. Build the loft into the living/TV room.
2. Turn the kitchen back into a bedroom or office
3. Convert the living room into an open plan kitchen and dinning room with scullery and bathroom behind.
4. Convert the cupboard into an en-suite toilet/shower for the main bedroom
5. Move the gas fire to the dinning room,
6. Make cupboard space from the chimney breast or incorporate into the toilet/shower
7. Build a wooden deck with plant boxes in the backyard
Great suggestions! Not what we did, but a great take on it! 👍
i would put the lounge in the front master bed room to make use of the firer place and master bedroom in the old lounge next to the bathroom .
Did you ever consider renting out renovated properties, or was it always the intention to sell and move up the ladder?
Wow! That property looks totally suitable as a nuclear waste disposal facility or a small bowling alley!!
Lol it's quite long! 😂
Channel binge here I come 😩😅
Instead of buying it, I would have bought a house in Feltwell, good place for kids, and you have everything a young family needs close by. I enjoyed my time there.
I don't know where that is but... cool! 👍👊
OMG a mate 😂 that’s literally the next street over to me, we are in the bungalows right up from there (DO YOU KNOW WHERE I MEAN?) if I didn’t have dogs I’d totally live in one of these flats they’re a great size 😊 you did a beautiful job. I’ve literally just found your channel by the way and wanted to ask if you are accepting jobs right now?
Assuming no limitations of internal structural walls, I would be looking at merging the kitchen and living room to one room. The bathroom offshot is a bit messy, but you are going to need pram/buggy/nappy then toy space, so keep that, and keep the bathroom more or less the same. I would be looking at going up into the loft from bed 2, possibly as an open split level room. Difficult to tell from the plan, and costs/plans/local planning rules, but if I could get that bedroom partition out of the window bay, and put a roof window in the front roof, then bed 2 becomes a landing to get the stairs up to the new bed 2 in the roof. You'd need to temper this with costs vs value added and street prices though.
If all you are looking for is a step up the ladder though, new bathroom, new cheap kitchen units, paint throughout, furnish sparingly and get it listed.
Out of interest, could you make new external stairs out through the existing kitchen window, in which case, bigger bathroom and utility space !
Again, very close on one of your suggestions! 👍 It's not obvious on the pics but there's a step down from the living room to the utility / bathroom. Plan was to live in it for a couple of years once it was done... but as per usual as soon as it was finished we put it on the market. 😂
On the 'drone view'. there appear to be quite a few Velux windows dotted about, so presumably no planning problems with a loft conversion.
Even though I live in a Victorian Terrace Property I wouldn't buy one EVER again without having somewhere to rent 1st for 6 months and then I'd rip EVERYTHING out piece by piece of pipework, electrics, plaster, all woodwork and then re-design completely.
What a shock to buy the flat and discover someone in it! Did you give them a timeframe to get out and did you stay there the whole time? Did you need to call for legal advice? I’m most interested did it incase I buy somewhere with a similar situation.
I'd have an elevator in the back of the house. Way too many stairs. I'd open up the wall between the kitchen and living room for an open concept. If there is enough room, I'd make a bedroom in that attic. Could you add a dormer in the attic?
Eugh, I can literally smell the pictures of the flat. One of my aunt's looked exactly like that when I went round to do a check on it, and fair to say I was in and out as fast as posible!
I still have that toastie machine in the kitchen photo!
To be honest, I wouldn't really do much to the layout, it's pretty much spot on for what it is.
First thing I'd do is make the kitchen/bathroom in the 'extension' into a large bathroom, I would then knock through the living room and 'kitchen' into a large kitchen/diner/living area, probably with an arch because I'm guessing when you bought the property arches were still in fashion :P
I would then just give the rest a good update, leaving the rest of the layout essentially the same.
If I had a larger budget, a loft conversion would definitely be on the cards, you could easily fit 2 beds and a bath up there, or what I'd probably do is just have a large master and en suite.
Ha ha, yeah - it smelled pretty bad. The worst bits I had to exclude from the video, like dirty underwear left in obscure places. The person squatting there was a dirty tramp. Watch this space on the renovation! 👍😀
Gosforth Handyman I vividly remember going over there with you after having collected the keys. Spoiler alert - This was one truly amazing renovation.
Ha - thank you again buddy! That was an interesting day! 👍😂
Could you make the stairs to the back less shallow and build a terrace above the backyard? The idea is to have the back yard as a garage and a terrace on top of it. Not sure if the ground floor flat is an issue or not. I would also combine the two cupboards into a pantry, seems to not have much sense in having a tiny cupboard that barely fits anything. Otherwise, make that tiny cupboard into a pantry (dry food, pots, pans, etc.) with loads of shelves.
You couldn't change the angle of the staircase due to building regs... but you're on the right lines. 👍
That red paint in the kitchen is a bit vivid. That PC is a beauty, and vhs tapes. This was a few years ago.
I fit gas and electric meters for a living, so state of the flat is tame compared to some properties I've had the pleasure of visiting.
Did you knock the living room and kitchen into one??
At some point I'll share some of the ones we looked at before settling on this one. I bet you've seen some sights! Some we saw were beyond belief. 😂👍
@@GosforthHandyman the fella living there wasn't called Ozzie by any chance???
When you go in and put a dust sheet down straight away - so you have somewhere clean to kneel... like in places where they don't let their dogs outside regularly enough. 🤮
I'd have done a loft conversion with a mansard roof to the rear.
Do these buildings have a basement.? In our rowhomes in Philadelphia, we have a basement, all utilities are accessible in the basement, water heater, home heating boiler, water pipes, waste pipes, so any repairs are easily accessible and work does not gum up the living areas.
As it's a flat, do you own the loft space or is it the property of the freeholder? Heard a story once of a lady buying a lovley flat in London, only for the freeholder to build another two flats above her :/ it always put me off even considering a leasehold.
1) I'd make the entire bathroom and area into a kitchen with direct access to the yard. I would expand the storage and close the access to the reception room. I would make HALF the kit/ 3rd bedroom into a bathroom.
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1a) expand the storage and take a slither from the master bedroom and make a shower room.
2a) make the bathroom and area into a kitchen.
3a) have a 3rd bedroom or knock the wall and have large reception and dining area.
Felicity Joy what’s a slither?
Andy, thanks for asking. I would just make it really nice and architecturally interesting. And maybe put a swimmingpool in the back yard. I can feel I'm pretty close to what you ended up doing. I have a gift for these things.
I’d get it resold as quick as possible. Take a loss if you have to! What a dog of a place...who’d want to live there??? Ha, only kidding; what a lot of possibilities, and a really useful loft space too...couple of nice big Veluxes, or maybe even dormer’s?
Ha ha - yes, the loft is huge! 6 days and all will be explained. 😂👍
That's a weird void behind the chimney. Pitty you can't take it all out but I suppose the bottom flat needs it too.
Yeah, not really an option unfortunately. 👍
I would have considered doing a loft conversion, if permissible, and putting a family bathroom up there. Then convert the bathroom to be the kitchen.
Make the room off the kitchen a living/dining room, make the old kitchen a third bedroom or a TV/gaming/office/gym/storage as needed. Keep the two front rooms as bedrooms.
Backyard, if not shared, would be for a BBQ!
Great suggestions - watch this space! 😀
Make loft to something nice. Real kitchen laundry in the back hall to downstairs to back yard
Good suggestions! 👍
Rock hard Geordie bricks😂
Lol too right - solid! 😂
I imagine you put the kitchen at the back and returned it to three bedrooms, a 'no-brainer' I guess.
That would be a very small kitchen but watch this space! 👍😀
Open plan with 2 beds at the back maybe if possible???
Well beyond my capabilities but going through the kitchen to get to the toilet/bathroom would be something I would want to change. Also I would not want the toilet off the living room. I had some friends who had a small two bedroom flat with the toilet off the living room, so, when visiting, if you had to use the toilet everyone in the living room could hear you. The problem is that it is a difficult thing to change, since presumably the toilet has to stay where it is.
Totally agree about the toilet / living room thing. 👍😀
It’s just so odd how you have the bathroom and utility area right at the back away from everything, maybe something with that
A little jealous to be honest. You'd never find an old flat that well built in western Canada; perhaps not in Canada at all. We're too young of a country. Most of the "old homes" are old falling down farm houses or wartime homes that are small and hastily built. Nothing is meant to last here and it shows. As a designer, my mind runs wild with the possibilities on something like that space. The loft is certainly a great bonus for development; I can see myself up there already! I would be very interested in what is allowed as far as redevelopment and what the whole permitting and inspection process is like over there. I have seen a few television programs that show it to be quite onerous. Please be sure to highlight that part of the builds. Thanks!
Quite a lot is covered by permitted development, if your moving the bathroom, you need to inform building control, to ensure plumbing/electrics is up to spec. Some loft conversion is covered but not all, can extend as long as it's below the roofline and a certain distance from property border, or hight is a bit lower if it's not a distance from the boundary. If you've already extended beyond (I think) 50% you need planning permission. If your in a conservative zone or listed building then everything needs permission. There is lots more to it, Skill builder has covered permitted development Vs planning permission, it's a good sum up, if a little rough compared to Andy.
Will defo be covering that in the next vid. Things have been relaxed a lot now with permitted development rules but back then things were pretty strict. Watch this space! 👍😀
@@GosforthHandyman I'm kinda like the government... always watching you. LOL
Rob, have things improved building wise in Canada? What's your take on quality? I feel mane UK new builds are very poor quality.
I feel like some of our new builds in the UK won't be around in 25 years time, particularly if you happen to let the bath overflow on the odd occasion, as I did when I was little, which our house recovered from quickly with a bit of plasterboard replacement. I'd be worried if go through my OSB i-joist when it had turned to mush.
Hi, intresting upload do u still buy and refurb properties
We've been in a new build for the last few years while the kids were growing up - want to get back in to renovations though. 👍
American here so I'm totally confused by the layout: What is the bottom part of the house? If there are two owners (top and bottom), who "owns" the yards?
There's a separate yard for the lower flat... but the really interesting bit is who owns the roof! More info here, quite interesting... www.lease-advice.org/article/tyneside-leases-a-brief-overview/
As little as possible to make it liveable, there are never the margins in these types of projects to make significant changes. You’ve also got to figure in the cost of all your labour.
Indeed - although I was just working on this in my spare time, evenings, weekends and holidays. Wasn't a money maker as such... at least that wasn't the original plan. 😂
How much and what street please?
Were these properties built as flats or houses converted later?
Pretty sure these were built as flats. Some were later turned in to houses though. 👍
If I was going to live in it for any length of time, I would; Switch the "kitchen" and Living room over and have an open plan kitchen / dinning room, then possibly look at the putting a stair case up from the second bedroom into the loft and put 2 bedrooms and shared bathroom up there, and then conver the downstairs bathroom into a utility room.
If it was a case of live in it for a couple of years, I would just switch over the living room and kitchen. I don't think it would make sense to convert the loft in that case, there's no way you would make a return on that.
What would I do?
Obviously, loft conversion. Get rid of those trusses, steel purlins in to support roof, big dormer on the back, stairs from landing via a mezzanine, Velux or two in the front. Ensuite too. Minor improvements In the main part of the flat. Sort that stupid cupboard out for a start!
That cupboard was just bizarre. It would have made more sense if you could get to it from the bedroom and use it as a wardrobe... but why it was in the living room was beyond me. 😂
What a good game. Here's what I'd do...
Fix the access at the back. Looks like the neighbours have raised the door up to the height of the first floor, so do the same: Build out a balcony in steel, with access stairs down the side of the yard, giving space for parking and some outside space on the balcony for a table and chairs.
Where the current bathroom and stairs are would be a kitchen with french doors onto the balcony and open plan into the lounge.
New bathroom where the kitchen is now. Hopefully space for separate bath and shower.
Then, if you have the cash, go up into the loft from bedroom 2. Big dormer window and master bedroom with en-suite.
Oh, you might be getting a shout out in part 2. 😀
Was this flat leasehold or freehold??? Usually the freeholder owns the loft space. You would also need the freeholder's permission before undertaking any renovation work to the flat itself. Just so people understand! £15K is a small budget. Only idea I can see is a steel to create a kitchen/lounge. That could fall foul fo fire regs though because of where the bathroom is.
If I remember rightly it was a Tyneside lease arrangement: www.lease-advice.org/article/tyneside-leases-a-brief-overview/ So yes, all valid points! 👍
@@GosforthHandyman Thanks - interesting read. Always read the legal pack extremely carefully when buying at auction! As an aside there are some blocks of flats in Newcastle that aren't mortgagable because there were issues with mineshafts! They are 1960's flats and the blocks are in a cluster of like five blocks with communal garden space between. They were nice but you can only buy for cash. I love looking at auction properties but there is a reason why nearly all of them are there :).
I'd declutter everything and start with a blank canvas
Ok Andy I would leave the layout as is because of circumstances new kitchen and bathroom put back original fireplace new carpets or laminate floors new lights and paint and I would get planning for a bedroom in the loft that's what I would do
All good suggestions David! Watch this space. 👍👍
The picture of the front looks more like a terrace than a flat
That was just an example btw, not the actual flat. 👍
Lol, here's me thinking that your name was Gosforth and you stole someones spirit level with their name on it
The kitchen and bathroom suit a two bedroom flat, just spruce it up and sell it on.
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Err no there is too many where I live and they never get looked after and usually end up with idiots living in them
Quite a project! If the wall between kitchen and living is not structural I would remove it and have one large space with a compact kitchen built into the right side. Keep the bathroom where it is but move the door to the stair side. Replace the tub with a shower. Replace the water heater with a compact on demand water heater mounted high on a wall in the bath. The little foyer space between the living room and bath can now have a custom fit desk with bookshelves above. This will provide a space for someone to work at a computer and take some of the functional load off the living room and bedrooms. At the back door replace the exterior stairs with a landing at door level and new steps going down off the right side. Doors opening over stairs are dangerous.
Unfortunately that wall is structural and the kitchen / utility is on a different level - about 20cm lower. Spot on with one of your other suggestions though... perhaps. 👍😀
"so the first task was to get the property empty...".
Cut to shot of river. Hmmmmm....
Andy Mac, you should be ashamed of yourself! 😉😉😉
Lol... well it was quite shallow. 😂😂
Move over Sarah Beeny !!
Ha, she has a lot to answer for. 😂
oh, and next time, please add which way is north ? ... yes I know its all north, but you know what I mean !!
Good point! The back yard faces south-west... ish.
If u do refurbished then make video. Thanks
Hi Andy, I live just down the road in a little village called Eaglescliffe, between Stockton and Yarm. The bricks you are referring to are called engineering bricks or “bl***y pain in the ars*”. I have a house with the same bricks and that is the reason I own a SDS drill, it is about the only thing that can drill a hole in these bricks.
Hi John - yeah, those old bricks are absolutely solid. Funnily enough it was on this project I first purchased my trusty Makita SDS - still going strong! 👍
Why are those bricks so hard?
I think engineering bricks are harder so that they're less permeable and therefore frost resistant - generally used on the few few courses up to DPC. Someone can correct me on the technicalities of this. For these older properties, no idea - just better quality bricks back then I think! 👍
@@GosforthHandyman , so are you saying the current UK bricks are shite? 🤣
@@GosforthHandyman Here in Swindon, most of the terraced houses are faced with engineering bricks, the backs and off shots are a cheaper brick, and the internal load bearing and party walls are a softer, often mishapen brick again. I have assumed they were the seconds from the corners of the brick kiln. The mortar and the quality of the bricklaying is quite different too. These were biult for GWR, with bigger, foreman houses at the ends of the terraces, to keep an eye the workers
Looks more like Heaton or South Gossy than Gosforth..
Very similar properties! Quite close to South Gossy 👍👍
What's happening with uploads been very slow and not long
Moving house and 95% of my tools are packed up now. Watch this space though! Oh, and lots of uploads on my other channels. 👍
I know British people love carpet on stairs and in the upstairs rooms but carpet on stairs is dangerous and carpet in general is gross. Stairs are ed designed in a way that is perfect for climbing. Adding carpet takes away the perfect climbing. It also makes it easier to fall down the stairs.
Nothing that a little water and lots of bleach won't cure.
Indeed - LOTS of bleach! 😂👍
Convert it back to a house as a terrace house was never meant to be flats
No you cannot tell the quality of the person that lives would be by that
There are lots of factors 2 being how the person is being treated and the mentality of the people in the area
Do you get these properties meth tested before you buy them. That is a must these days.
Move it to London.
Sell it for 1.5 million upwards, retire.
I would have gone mentally ill if I had to move to one of those places.
To be fair I've seen WAY worse than this. You should see the student flats in Jesmond after half a term. 😂
I absolutely hate it when cars half park on the pedestrian footpaths, its so selfish by the car owners.
On a lot of those streets, you really have no choice, the roads just aren't wide enough for a car to park on each side and still get 2 cars down the middle
Yeah, I'm afraid these streets were designed for horses, not cars - unfortunately no alternative but to half park on the pavements here.
I hope you got it really, really cheap. It looks like a sturdy monument to another time and not really suited to the way we live now. It's like buying a well built ox cart and trying to renovate it to be an automobile.
Nothing ever goes particularly cheap around that way! 😂
Your poor wife i bet she sobbed being heavily pregnant and going into a flat like that - i can say that because it happened to us, our new house we just bought in Denton was left in an absolute minging condition. Fake tan stains EVERYWHERE! We spent ages cleaning before we could unpack our stuff!
Ha, luckily she wasn't heavily pregnant when we first moved in. We're gluttons for punishment. 😂👍