Great follow up video Tom, loved the original trilogy.. as the hole is still in the ceiling a dramatic recreation would have been amazing and hilarious. We’re you wearing that shirt at the time as it’s seems to be in tatters 😂😂 The cupboards looks absolutely…. Fine and poor pigeons, hope Bill Oddie doesn’t see this video.
Hahahaha I did think about hanging out the ceiling again but was honestly terrified of pulling the entire ceiling down. It was quite dramatic when I fell through. RU-vid money means I can’t afford a new shirt yet
I'm so glad you shared this, our renovator insisted we had three doors on our bifolds. There was a communication issue as English was a second language for him so we just agreed to three but never quite understood why he kept saying "four bad, no good".
Really interesting video. Very honest. The house looks great, and I'd have thought nothing of the kitchen issues if you hadn't pointed it out! Got settling cracks you wouldn't believe in an extension we got about four or five years ago. They have stopped cracking now, but need looked at.
So glad I chanced upon your Channel on here! I've watched your 3 Build vids and found them really informative. Great presenting skills BTW! This particular vid is a gem as we're toying with the idea (ok, want to get the builder to build for our budget!) of a single storey rear extension. Decided against the bigger plans we had drawn up: far too expensive. Plus not sure this property warrants the spend. Maybe in 2018/19, but 2022 looking like a bad year to spend too much £££??!? Shot me now for saying this, but we're not fans of bifolds. "letting the outside in", "free flow into the garden"....sorry, but if you were to hear the language when a bloody, irritating blue bottle decides to pop in, you'd understand that!🤬 But if the price was right, of course we'd have them! Great point about the difference between the 3 & 4 span panels. Friend has 3 with one as dedicated door. Great idea. Kitchen: looks beautiful. Dishwasher: yeah I understand that. Pigeons LOL!! We've had that on our French doors...like beautiful etched glass! We have a very large Indian sandstone patio. Want to salvage that as fairly new. I feel your pain re: keeping your new patio clean. A once-a-year jetwash and a weekend we'll never get back is enough for us! (Yours looks very stylish tho). Oh and the heating. Thank God you sorted that out before Friday...all that expensive energy going to waste! Thanks again. Will watch your money-related vids next. 👍
Wow thanks for the comment, so glad you enjoyed the series! Thank you for saying my presenting skills were up to scratch, I have no idea what I am doing 😅. I'm just waiting for the day a pigeon comes into the kitchen - then I really will set fire to the house and move!!
The wall cupboards by the extractor hood look good and the knobs on the top cupboards seem to align with the knobs on the stuff below ✅ If you switched the dishwasher and the bin storage, you'd end up with it being less easy to park pots you remove from the dishwasher, so what you have now seems good ✅ I think the renovation looks great. Thanks for the tip on balancing the heating system, off to look at ours now!
What is the current obsession with causing yourself to walk much further to make a cup of tea or urinate whist living in a green house in the summer, a freezer in the winter and paying 70K for the privilege.
Brilliant video, followed your extension videos, planning doing a similar extension ourselves soon so great insight on what to take into account. Big 👍
What you will find on such bi fold doors is the shear weight of the doors when open is astonishing, you will have operational problems in time , I would advise just one opening door only and the rest glass fixed panels 👍
9:28 cupboards look fine, the thing that's triggering me is the beam. It's throwing the symmetry of way more than the cupboard doors being different sizes
Yeah I know what you mean, that beam is holding the entire upstairs up so not much I can do. It’s actually a shallower one than the original one proposed!
Certified banger of a video! Just got done pressure washing my patio so I certainly feel for you on that one.. Look at those bifold doors in my next house so good to know about the odd number/ leading door thing. Cheers mate
Thanks for being so honest on this video! I've also got a load of settling cracks.. which I paid a decorator to fix and he did a rather poor job! Your house looks great.
Hahaha you pigeon 🐦 killer 😂 Fantastic video 👍🏾 Really like your transparency. Well done for the smart investment. We are doing a ground floor renovation, not an extension but we hope it will add value too Keep it going 👍🏾
@@ThatFinanceShow lol Technically that wouldn't be 100 percent accurate so I guess you are off the hook 😅 but still those windows are just the worst for birds
Great set of videos - well done. I work in construction and the usual practice, as part of the builders contract, is to agree a retention of say 1.5% of the contract value to cover defects that occur in the first year. When the defects (cracks etc) are put right by the builder the retention money is paid to the builder. This incentivises the builder to correct the defects. The builder here seems to have done a tidy job. Well done for agreeing the stage payments as part of the contract.
Thanks Alastair, this is a really good point. The builder did offer this initially but when the final stage payments were agreed we ended up scrapping it. Should probably have done that. The builders were good honest lads though but that is good advice for anyone taking on a project like this.
Absolutely loved the series, thank you! Just a thought, if you want less birds to fly into the window, you could put a decoy hawk above the window to scare birds away from it? They're only about £10 and you could put it in the roof above?
I enjoyed your video, building or renovating is so stressful. Either way, you wish you did things differently but are stuck with your decisions....great job. Chin up looks great !!
Your slim kitchen cabinets on either side of extractor, I would have not known if you did not tell. They look perfect. Anothe thing about the dish washer and bin....you are right. these little things do matter in long run. You are an eye opener.
Great series of videos! I don't think you said in the videos but did you stay living in the house during the extension build? Or did you have to move out?
10:22 I'd be more annoyed about the way the cupboard on the left has a chunk taken out of the top in order to make away for that large white roof beam . I couldn't live having to look at that every day.
hi this was an amazing series and i am already recommending this to a couple of friends who want to do changes to their houses, just a few queries, did you try sourcing the materials for construction yourself or did you rely on the building company/builder? what heating system did you use to better energy efficiency.
Hi Priya, thanks so glad you enjoyed it. No I didn't try sourcing materials, well actually, the patio slabs I did but nothing else. With everything else going on it was just a time thing - happy to pay for it to be sorted for me so I could concentrate on running my business. Heating is bog standard gas but on a new modern combi boiler.
You could have had a lead door on your bifold doors. A 3+1 would still have given you the slimmer doors your wanted. Something like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q2LOL0LdRcE.html
@@ThatFinanceShow I thought maybe your builder/architect was missing a trick. It's not all that common mind you, and often cheaper for them to sell you a 3 panel which obviously wasn't right for you. Beautiful though, I'm not at all jealous 😆
considering monetary inflation was about 10% per annum then actually a valuation of 550k is in real term equivalent to about 454k two years' previously, so you're massively down... good job then that you're not moving soon. Odd that on "The Finance Show" you wouldn't take this into account?
So ……. This is all dandy. But…. Finding a decent and reliable builder, is a challenge in of itself. All the ones I’ve spoken to so far were arseholes… disinterested, rude… Customer service isn’t a thing apparently. 🤷🏻
Cupboards look fine, wouldn’t have noticed. Now, re the patio, Tom you need to buy a proper pressure washer, that one is no better than a garden hose! Get a proper electric or petrol one from STIHL or somewhere like that, where they can give you a demo. With the right (or wrong!) nozzle, some of them can take the paint off a car! Spend the bucks to save the time. I suspect you paid not much for that one, and that’s what you got, not much. 👍👍
@3:39, interesting. At what stage were you aware of the problem, and was it not possible to make the opening smaller? However, I am not a fan of bi-fold doors, especially in kitchens since you track dirt straight into what should be a clean space. @4:39, I suggest going back to the company who installed them. That should not be a problem.
Could have made the opening smaller but we wanted maximum light and glass. Not really had the problem tracking dirt, surely it's the same on any door into a garden?
Just about to comment the same. Shouldn't extend for profits sake if your not going to move but couldn't calculate profit without know normal uplift. Good video, good channel.
Whoever plumbed in your radiators should have balanced them for you, it can be a pita so some skip it but it leaves a cold room. And I have never heard of building works for off perfectly, I don't think you've done too badly.
Great set of videos Tom, lots of fun and some good points to think about, oh and some great humour in there especially the legs through the ceiling, hope your wife is OK, I'm now going to get my wife to watch your money videos, yes the brains of the marriage 😆 keep it up mate 👍
Just discovered your channel today via RU-vid suggestions and I just love your self deprecating humour! Deserving of such a larger following than you have! 😊
Why don’t you scribe the shelving to the shape of the kids room nook? Then you could install without any damage. Also, if you’d had a 3-pane bifold with a separate swinging access door on the left hand side this would have resolved the weight and access concerns.
I do all my own DIY and building work, but I think like yourself, I’m a bit of a perfectionist and never enjoy it because of those niggles! Having said that, those kitchen units look fine to me and I wouldn’t have even noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out. Try to enjoy!
All this shared radiator knowledge/experiences is much appreciated. We'd consider installing some decent electric heaters if we have our extension. Otherwise think might entail lots of work to run pipes (as currently wall mounted and nowhere near back walls of house) and maybe a new boiler?? 🤔 Used them to replace storage heaters in a rental we owned: excellent, very effective.
Hey Tom, Thanks for this great post, I saw this one first, I guess this is equally important as the other three ( I then saw this first, second and third one), all four were very helpful and insightful. Especially the ticking money spent counter, funding idea and this where you highlighted the learning etc after being there for a while. I am going to go for a similar project for our home, I wanted to know if you could throw some light on how I could get a builder to agree on a fixed price, do they agree on a fixed price ? Post COVID the raw material and building costs are skyrocketing. Any insights about your experience or tips to get the builder would be appreciated. Many thanks again !
Hi, thanks for your frankness. We are going through a house extension as well, with new kitchen. I wanted to know, what stove brand is that one? And what is the brand Sink you have? Thanks Mary
Those bi fold seal are just slide in the grove. It could came out of the grove which you need to remove the whole strip by pull straight up or down. And re slide it back in, which as a window and door maker. It never should come out. Unless wrong rubber got used. The common problem is was rip between the rubber and the leg that slide in the grove. In that case you need new one to replace it.
I had to chuckle at the loft hatch incidence. I did the same a few times labouring for an electrician, one time we had the floorboards up and something was covering the hole can’t remember what but I was up some steps pulling cable for the light switches, jumped down straight through the roof until my elbows stopped me. My feet dangling over the poor old ladies dining table she was sat at. God knows how she didn’t have a heart attack. My boss was furious in the house but later in the pub it was the top story for a week or two.
When I heard about the heating issue I thought yes, that's my problem too, tall rads in big kitchen diner but it's too cold, I clicked subscribe. Then I remembered only the super rich can afford to heat their homes this winter anyway. 🤔
first off loved the videos good little mini series. glad i found this for a few of the pointers. 2 things, could you not have had a smaller door size and had 5 doors on the bifold? and the cupboards above the cooker that are smaller, should always be for safety as its fire reg to have a gap between them and the hood. the hood should always be the width of the cooker..... hence the cupboards having to be smaller.
It’s probably the lighting but your LH wall units appear dark blue v the RH units which look black. Overall I’d say minor snags. Can’t you get handle retrofitted on your door?
Loved this series!! We are currently in the midst of a similar (slightly smaller) project and I am intrigued whether you considered underfloor heating instead of radiators and if so what made you go with radiators? we are torn and wondering whether go for underfloor in the new area and stick with radiators in existing space. Any thoughts?
Did you do a contract with the builder before you started if so where did you get it -any advice would be appreciated-we are starting an extension in September
No offence intended amigo ,every trade probably worked to the drawings relevant to them. It seems as if there was zero overall project management during construction ? Wanted extension,got design, got the builders in so sit back pay out & wait till the end 🎉 looks seriously over engineered tbh the work probably cost more than your house & still needs more😢
Thanks for the comment but you've lost me a bit. Yes it was managed, and pretty well. What's over engineered? It certainly didn't cost more than the house and there's no more work needed.
