Johann Posted February 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 RobertDIY to the rescue! Had to install hood springs but didn't want to remove the fenders.. Searched the web and viewed Robert Spinner's video about removing/replacing hood springs... Made spring long enough to fit. Installed both sides and closed the hood.. Heard the wood pieces falling out of the spring and done! . Fuel lines are in place, 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted April 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Barn find. After ~25 years the wife and I decided to leave the industrial area and move to something slightly more outdoors.. The house itself is a 168 year old farm house.. As pictured we also found a barn on the 4.6 acre property which comes with it. Later this year Area 55 will be history. The new property comes with number 31 so to keep tradition it will be named Area 31.. Officially the deal was sealed October last year but the transfer was March 1st this year. Currently rebuilding some parts of the house, other parts will mostly be left in the original style. One small issue was a part of the living room. The free height was only 1.95 mtr., The ceiling has been raised by roughly 30 cm. With my 1.91 mtr. it brings a bit more breathing space. The other part of the living is 3.40 mtr. high. The other part being changed is the bathroom. There used to be two small bathroom with a bedroom in-between. The bedroom and one bathroom have been removed and the other bathroom is going to be extended. The house being a traditional Dutch farm house the bathrooms and bedroom were situated in the former stable area. I don't know how it is called in US-English but the center part of the stable is called "de deel" in Dutch. This part has been converted to living space including an old French fire place. The part where the removed bathroom used to be will become an extension of "de deel" to bring some more light in to the space. De deel didn't have any outside windows so no direct light coming in. The brickwork is half way done. Had to reuse some old bricks because they had old, now non standard, dimensions. The other wall wil use new type bricks. An impression of the outside light coming in, So for the time being the Volvo developments will be on the back burner. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINN Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 (edited) Johann this place has insane amount of character! Looking forward to this very much. Also, looks like you have your work cut out. Edited April 8, 2016 by FINN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikS Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Really cool house. I would love to move to the "countryside" someday myself if I had the opportunity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookforjoe Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Very nice!!!!! Now, where are the pics of the barn that will become your workspace?? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted April 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 2 hours ago, lookforjoe said: Very nice!!!!! Now, where are the pics of the barn that will become your workspace?? :) A big mess at the moment.. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Riker Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Wow, what a cool place! So cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINN Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Bringing the overall theme of the house into the barn as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted April 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 1 hour ago, FINN said: Bringing the overall theme of the house into the barn as well? I don't think I understand what you are asking here. For now the barn will basically stay as it is. On the left side I want to make a small isolated computer room. The space in the picture where you can see the yellow bucket on the left. There is no heating in the barn and it is extremely well ventilated as you can see in the picture in the back just below the roof line. Above the walls everything is open. I want to build the room from the scratch material which came out of the house, in the picture the pile of wood on the richt and the white beams in front of the workbench, which has been made of that same material btw. Sort of Workbench 2.0 After the mess is cleared I want to place the workbench to the back wall. This because from all the poles in the barn run beams to the next pole and the outside walls and sit at ~1.85 mtr. height except for the two mentioned spaces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Johann Posted April 16, 2016 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Some progress with the renovation, Most of the brickwork is done, The bathroom floor needs to be removed to install floor heating before is can be rebuild. My oldest son doesn't like the traditional style and his new ground level bedroom had a very traditional look with low ceiling. Lot of wood cladding. I removed everything from the room including the low ceiling. Turned out the brick walls didn't run all the way to the roof. Outside wall was a double brick, cavity?, wall but only just above the low ceiling. Walls have been extended to the roof, a door leading to the bathroom was removed and drywall used for the ceiling to give it a bit more modern look. All done by people will skills.. I'm good at tearing things apart.. Needs to be said that there is no square angle in the house.. Paintwork in the high living room has begun. The ceiling has been sealed because there still was a lot of dust coming from seams in the ceiling even after thorough vacuum cleaning. On the right side of the fireplace there used to be a small bench nailed to the wall and floor. After removing it turned out the old oak floor didn't extend all the way to the wall. The carpenter did a great job repairing the floor. Most of the work in the house is done by a carpenter and his apprentice which is his son. The carpenters brother does the brick work but because of an illness he only works in the afternoons. Takes a bit different planning but I think the work has been progressing well. Like mentioned I try to as much of the removal work as possible myself. The apprentice prepares the work place for his uncle so he can immediately start with the work. The kitchen, A very tiny kitchen but only needed to make the food. With the old farm houses people were mostly living in what we call a living kitchen. The living itself was basically only used for special occasions and the Sunday. The living kitchen is somewhat larger, And will be left as is. Only the plaster work will be repainted. the woodwork will remain untouched. On the outside a new terrace will be build. I hired a gardener who started this week. A tree was in the way and the gardener suggested to cut the tree. I'm absolutely to tree hugger but I couldn't agree to cut this weird looking very old tree to pieces so I suggested to relocate.. Against all the advice.. Still had an old workhorse handy, Removed the tree, It's new home, And progress of the terrace, 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mesoam Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 property looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted April 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Terrace almost finished 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINN Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Nice. I like the window shutters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted April 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Slow progress, moved some stuff from the current house, But the weather doesn't play nice.. The ceiling of the "deel" extension is finished, Also cut away the uneven pattern of the wood cladding. Thinking about transforming this area in to some sort of bar style thing. The painting is slowly progressing. Door and window frames were painted white, the inner sufaces semi gloss grey, Currently working on a floor on top of "De deel", an area unused at the moment. The ceiling of de deel is literally made of trees cut in half over the full length. The isolation was removed but this left a see through ceiling. Anything new on top would show through. To avoid the issue we decided to paint all the floor beams a very dark brownish/black. 18 beams were painted before installing. Added to that 100 small plates were painted also, The result looks like this, The beams were aligned on top of the old oak trusses. The plates put in between the beams and isolation was added on top, The second part of the floor will be finished today. A nice Volvo moment, 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Posted May 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 Things are sort of taking shape now. Removed the floor protection revealing the old oak floor, Decided to remove the concrete floor next to the bathroom in the extended area and pour new concrete because the floor of "de deel" wasn't level with this part. Floor has been surface finished and will receive an oak deck. Also a bar will be installed so water and a drain has been prepared. In the mean time spring arrived and some maintenance was needed.. I put my green fingers to use.. The driveway isn't part of the property but it is a dead end street leading to the only house on it. Up to the house the surface is hardened /asphalt. The remaining part is entrance to farm land. Took a picture of the RS500 on this part of that road a couple of year ago.. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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