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- Wilsons Construction Richard Wilson is the amazing builder that constructed our house
Our architect
- Works Architecture Jem Southgate is the brilliant designer of our house
Home Cinema
- AVID4U Jim expertly installed our kit perfectly.
- Bowers & Wilkins The coolest speakers in the world, and British!
- Epson UK Our projector that looks like a spaceship…
- Sevenoaks Sound & Vision Richard Meadmore, you are our hero! The guy that made it happen…
- Yamaha UK Our Blu-ray and amazing amplifier…
We are using...
- AC Fabrications all our steelwork (balustrade, cap pings, fireplaces, lighting bases…)
- Aspire Interiors Shelly Horridge does all our curtains, blinds, upholstery etc – all the nice soft things…
- Bennetts Timber Our thermowood cladding came from Bennetts. Cheers!
- Bio Fires We got our bio gel fire trays from these guys!
- BuildStore Our mortgage agents
- Carl Lindley Decorator Carl decorated the whole of our house from top to bottom, inside and out!
- Carr Restoration Dave Carr ground and polished our beautiful concrete floor.
- CBS engineering Chris Brown has worked with Jem before and is doing all our structural design
- Chapel Joinery Ian Cappleman is doing our carpentry stuff, like windows and that.
- Crightons Hydropool are supplying us with our amazing Hydropool
- Dawson and Burgess Roger Williams is dealing with all our legal stuff. Thanks Roger!
- DSR Demolition DSR are helping us demolish the auditorium
- Earthworks Cheri LaMay designs beautiful gardens!
- Fiddler Construction Sean is doing all our concrete for us
- Graham Ball Joiners Graham and Shaun clad our hydraulic door with a high performing wood frame and glass
- Gwindow Our amazing “Gwindow!” – get one for yourself here
- HD Anywhere Our cool TV and internet distribution system
- Historic Lighting The bits we needed to put together our dangly lights
- Howarth Timber General stuff and branded hard hats…
- Humberside Glazing They are doing our glazing – believe it or not…
- Indigo Furniture for things of beauty, go here…
- Ipswich Building Society For our mortgage
- JMP Consultants These guys sorted our issues with highways planning and parking at the front. Brilliant!
- K. R. Reclamation These guys blast clean anything and everything.
- Kieran Taylor Rendering The lads did a brilliant job on our white rendering
- Luke Arnold is doing all our brick related jobs for us
- Magnet Ant from Magnet Kitchens was a star, helping us beyond the call of duty!
- Matt Brewster Matt’s beautiful artwork adorns our lounge wall
- Natasha Estrada She did our bat survey
- Richard Wilson Our builder and our friend!
- RMD Kwikform suppliers of our concrete formwork
- Spinks Suppliers of bricks and loads of other stuff
- Stainforth Carpets Our cinema room carpet came from our pals at Stainy Carpets
- Thomas Crapper Supplied us with the finest ‘bog’ in Thorne…
- Travis Perkins For big bags of sand left in strategic places…
- Virtue Electrical Engineering Ltd All electrical stuff and Audio Visual niceties
- Works Architecture Jem Southgate is the brilliant designer of our house
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Top floor…. DONE!
Friday 27th July was not only my 41st birthday, but the day we poured the last structural concrete to form the top terraces / first floor roof. The cameras were there and we feel we’ve reached a milestone, with the … Continue reading
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More History
Thanks to Ray Pemberton for sending me this snippet from the Thorne Grammar School Magazine Volume 3 number 27, Easter Term 1927. It will be of particular interest to Old Boys generally, and to those locally resident in particular, to know … Continue reading
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Rich Wilson… Action Hero!
We had to cut away some of the original slab on the top floor / roof to make way for the stairwell and new concrete structure. Here’s Rich hammering away at a particularly stubborn cross beam. Took him about two … Continue reading
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A glimpse inside…
So once we had the lid on the first floor, and all the formwork removed, we could feel for the first time how the downstairs would be like. You’ve got to remember at this time, that all the concrete will … Continue reading
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The bedroom and en suite wall and fireplace
We’re extending the concrete wall from downstairs right up through to the main bedroom and en suite. Concrete shower anyone?! We’ve decided to do it slightly different to downstairs by just using plywood rather than it all being board marked … Continue reading
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First floor… DONE!
After the tricky walls, the first floor seemed relatively straight forward. We created the ‘soffit’ (the underside of the ceiling) with formwork and plywood, then added the rebar. During this time, I decided to clean up the first floor inside … Continue reading
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