You talked about rebuilding your staircase. My suggestion is you start by removing the existing staircase (and the walls & ceiling) as necessary) so you can flip the rise of the staircase 180 degrees. With this arrangement the stair case follows the pitch of the roof so you have built in head clearance. At the second floor, start with a platform on which your risers will sit and projects one tread depth into the second floor space. Next, add your winder tread. The platform and winder will pickup 3 steps in what was wasted space. Now you can lay out your risers (7 to 8" rise (be consistent) and a 10" tread depth). You have room to make your third floor opening longer in both directions if required, for headroom and a comfortable staircase. Were it my home, I would leave the staircase open for natural air circulation. Run an open railing around the attic floor cutout. I hope something here is useful.
There were some great moments of comedy in this one. You got it done and that’s what counts.👍 On the subject of insulation - for achieving the best outcome in terms of heat loss - you may well do better insulating the knee walls and the roof (while allowing for airflow), still not cheap to do properly though. Hope the salad soup was an appropriate reward for wrestling the chipboard into position.😉👍
Lovely to see the progress of it. If you have a possibility to insulate it later is always good. We also have a job to do in renovating the old farmhouse. But we first have a peek at how you do it 😅
there is a vast difference between what was at the start to what it is now good job, that loft looks very nice and looking forward to what comes next, as for the floor insulation I'm a big this is the plan type of guy sadly more often than not what the plan was isn't always what the plan becomes but we will see and i hope it works out fine in the end.
Please, stay wonky. Loving your content. Keep it up. I find it very entertaining 🤗. I hope you also get some insulation inspiration, which will be a hilarious video. Cheers from South Australia🐨
Didn't know your lovely wife is French! Love her accent.What I always wonder is with flooring - don't you need to put something sound dampening on the joists before fastening the new floor?
Great job, your on roll now! I understand fully doing with very stricktly ekonomy. That insulation is wise done, outside insulation first, floors between secondary, it can bee noisy to walk and everything hears downstears. Better it gets!
Embrace the Wonk. With a house like that there is no possible way that things will come out plumb, square or level. You make the best of it and do what one must to make the transitions between new and old work as well as can be done given the constraints of time, money, effort. There is always going to be compromises. One thing you'll learn is to think through VERY carefully the ramifications of what you choose as a reference point. (The floorboards vs the wall/square to the joists). In 40+ years of residential construction/remodel I have never seen someone glue the groove of tongue and groove sub-flooring. That joint isn't meant for glue unless this is some weird Euro building code thing or a product specific thing and I've never even heard of something like that here in the US. You can blow in cellulose insulation into any cavity that you can fit the 5-8cm blower hose.
Bonjour je suis inquiète...avez-vous résolu vos problèmes de choix entre l isolation et la soupe de salade...je comprend parfois la vie est difficile 😢😢😢😅
Salad soup? Ffs! Is there even such a thing? 150mm of kingspan on the roof will be just fine for insulation. Fill the joist space with rockwool to sound deaden footsteps down below.
You talked about rebuilding your staircase. My suggestion is you start by removing the existing staircase (and the walls & ceiling) as necessary) so you can flip the rise of the staircase 180 degrees. With this arrangement the stair case follows the pitch of the roof so you have built in head clearance.
At the second floor, start with a platform on which your risers will sit and projects one tread depth into the second floor space. Next, add your winder tread. The platform and winder will pickup 3 steps in what was wasted space. Now you can lay out your risers (7 to 8" rise (be consistent) and a 10" tread depth). You have room to make your third floor opening longer in both directions if required, for headroom and a comfortable staircase. Were it my home, I would leave the staircase open for natural air circulation. Run an open railing around the attic floor cutout.
I hope something here is useful.
There were some great moments of comedy in this one. You got it done and that’s what counts.👍 On the subject of insulation - for achieving the best outcome in terms of heat loss - you may well do better insulating the knee walls and the roof (while allowing for airflow), still not cheap to do properly though. Hope the salad soup was an appropriate reward for wrestling the chipboard into position.😉👍
Look up on the joint as additional ventilation. Which is in important in old stone houses.
Lovely to see the progress of it. If you have a possibility to insulate it later is always good. We also have a job to do in renovating the old farmhouse. But we first have a peek at how you do it 😅
I'm more or less in the same boat as you with my old farmhouse in Hungary. It's all about priorities and money.
True. Good luck!
Wishing you both wonderful abundance. 🤞🙏🤞. The floor looks great.
Great job ! Also allayed my fears and doubts about the insulation.
All wonderfully calculated! Nice job. Sort of DIY with philosophy!
there is a vast difference between what was at the start to what it is now good job, that loft looks very nice and looking forward to what comes next, as for the floor insulation I'm a big this is the plan type of guy sadly more often than not what the plan was isn't always what the plan becomes but we will see and i hope it works out fine in the end.
Good progress with the flooring, love your content folks.
Thanks 👍
Please, stay wonky. Loving your content. Keep it up. I find it very entertaining 🤗. I hope you also get some insulation inspiration, which will be a hilarious video. Cheers from South Australia🐨
I'm sorry but, "parallels" part made me laugh and yes, good luck with salad soup ! 😁
Nicely done, Lewis. It looks like you enjoy wood work 😊
Mad cabling 😵💫
Why glue the boards ?
Thanks
For insolation you could go for blowen in insolation. "La ouate de cellulose" in French. Good luck
Didn't know your lovely wife is French! Love her accent.What I always wonder is with flooring - don't you need to put something sound dampening on the joists before fastening the new floor?
Wondering why you didn't wait to glue at a later date, when you have funds for insulation?
Nice work!
Great job, your on roll now! I understand fully doing with very stricktly ekonomy. That insulation is wise done, outside insulation first, floors between secondary, it can bee noisy to walk and everything hears downstears. Better it gets!
bees are NOT that noisy
👍👍👍. Thank you
Nice Job!
05:12 Here is the exact moment DeWalt sold a cordless oscillating multitool to me.
Embrace the Wonk. With a house like that there is no possible way that things will come out plumb, square or level. You make the best of it and do what one must to make the transitions between new and old work as well as can be done given the constraints of time, money, effort. There is always going to be compromises. One thing you'll learn is to think through VERY carefully the ramifications of what you choose as a reference point. (The floorboards vs the wall/square to the joists).
In 40+ years of residential construction/remodel I have never seen someone glue the groove of tongue and groove sub-flooring. That joint isn't meant for glue unless this is some weird Euro building code thing or a product specific thing and I've never even heard of something like that here in the US.
You can blow in cellulose insulation into any cavity that you can fit the 5-8cm blower hose.
Curious why you went with denser fiber-board vs oriented strand? It's more water-resistant, stronger, and much, much, cheaper here in America.
10:04 So then, you're not going to insulate under the floor? 12:51, 14:04?????? 14:46- 14:50 OKIE-DOKIE!!!!!!!
Noggins? What is this, an Escape to Rural France video???
Not any more!
Think there’s an insulation you can pump in via long tubes which might work here rather than pushing pads thru?? All the best.
Looks great. That will be a fun job trying to push insulation any length, but that's for the future. How was the garden salad soup? Best wishes.
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Bonjour je suis inquiète...avez-vous résolu vos problèmes de choix entre l isolation et la soupe de salade...je comprend parfois la vie est difficile 😢😢😢😅
I’m guessing salad soup is just vegetable soup 🤔 lost in translation. Please let us know next video how it was 😂
It would line up, you needed to make two cuts to achieve this.
No! Not salad soup?! Or is that another phrase for minestrone?
No bridging between the floor joists?
The ends of the panels dont need to land on a joist that's why they have a tongue and groove.
Salad soup? Ffs! Is there even such a thing?
150mm of kingspan on the roof will be just fine for insulation. Fill the joist space with rockwool to sound deaden footsteps down below.
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Please do not use this bad particle board (if this is the correct name in english). Genuine wooden planks instead.