Stacey Solomon helped a pair with their bungalow extension as a part of her new present Stacey Solomon’s Renovation Rescue.
Caroline, a psychotherapist, and her husband Erick, an internet designer, from Enfield, London, had been constructing an extension for his or her two mattress indifferent bungalow however got here unstuck after builders left the job unfinished after they had been paid £70,000.
Stacey although got here and gave the couple ideas and design concepts impressed by minimalist Japandi (Japanese and Scandinavian) structure, which additionally crucially helped them save on their already stretched funds and we check out the ultimate end result.
Couple left with uninhabitable house after spending £70k
A 12 months in the past the couple employed builders to increase and renovate the property for £70,000 and the couple needed to transfer into Caroline’s father or mother’s home while the work was being performed.
Nonetheless, the couple realised issues had been amiss as Erick stated: “I realised the work beginning to be dangerous fairly early on. I took photos of the roof and stated “This isn’t straight” they usually stated “Oh it isn’t going to be like that”.
“They sealed every thing and it was nonetheless the identical, slopey… That is once we realised like you do not know what you are doing.”
Luggage of screed had been additionally used to cowl the underfloor heating that the couple seen stated on the again “Not Appropriate For Underfloor Heating” and the skylight within the kitchen-diner was leaking.
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The couple employed new builders after 9 months who informed them the extension value would now be £140,000, double their preliminary funds, to finish the work resulting from undoing the earlier builders’ errors.
Stacey will get ‘fingers on’ eradicating window panes
Contained in the extension there have been home windows above the doorway to the bedrooms that the couple had initially determined to take away.
Nonetheless, after convincing from Stacey who appreciated the daylighting that got here from the home windows the couple determined to easily substitute the home windows as an alternative.
Stacey duct taped the home windows shut to cease them shattering after which eliminated the pane by loosening the beading round it with a chisel and hammer.
“You already know what it seems to be higher already” Caroline stated. Erick remarked he did not count on Stacey to be so “fingers on” with the venture.
Erick impressed by Stacey’s recommendation changed the glass within the inner home windows by measuring the window body earlier than chopping the beading to dimension and holding the glass pane while the beading is fastened into place.
Stacey matches a rest room sink
Though all the primary repair plumbing had already been performed within the extension quite a lot of jobs had been nonetheless wanted akin to becoming a basin and a bathroom within the en suite.
“There’s plenty of issues in plumbing you really want to have professionals do, however there are some areas on the second repair we might do ourselves.
“Plumbing is just not a string at present in my bow. It simply actually intimidates me however I am excited to provide it a go as we speak.”
Stacey and Erick put in the toilet cupboard with the sink in addition to attaching it to the water pipes after which Stacey excitedly stated: “I am gonna go house and say to Joe [Swash] “I’ve simply fitted a sink as we speak.””
The method saved round £300 by not hiring a plumber to do the work.
Stacey offers DIY information to laminate flooring
The couple had additionally purchased DIY pleasant laminate flooring for the bed room, which might value round £50 per sq. metre to put, so Stacey urged doing the work themselves to save lots of more cash.
Stacey gave them an illustration as to how the laminate flooring system works as she defined: “This can be a normal click on system. Principally the entire planks click on into each other and also you lay it like brick work or block work.”
Laying the ground themselves saved round £1500 however Stacey wasn’t completed there as she additionally helped the couple set up the decking exterior.
With a mitre noticed she lower the items into place earlier than utilizing a T-Clip system to connect the decking to the body by screwing into T-Clips between boards that then tighten as they’re screwed to create tightly fitted decking.
Erick acknowledged: “The decking is superb. I am gonna do barbeques, and dancing, singing.”
Couple saved £6k utilizing pocket doorways for the partition
The couple wished a partition between a music room and the kitchen contained in the extension, however Stacey gave the couple another home extension concepts.
The couple wished full top bi folding doorways, which was estimated to value £10,000 however to save lots of on prices Stacey urged: “If we cut back the dimensions of the opening we might introduce some type of pocket door system, and, probably, one thing like that would value round £4k somewhat than £10k. A large saving.”
Stacey helped the couple set up the sliding pocket doorways with oak panel cladding that additionally embody soundproofing insulation.
With the ultimate end result Stacey known as the doorways her “favourite factor in the home” and even beginning questioning the place in her home she might set up pocket doorways.
Completed house ‘seems to be like an entire totally different home’
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When Stacey returned to see the Japandi bungalow designed house as she exclaimed: “It seems to be like an entire totally different home, does not it?”
The couple revealed to Stacey that they had been quoted on the bear minimal £65,000 to get the work performed, even with doing plenty of the work themselves, however they managed to finish the extension and renovation for £60,000.
After over a 12 months of labor the couple had been lastly capable of reside of their house once more as Caroline acknowledged: “I’ve fallen again in love with my house.”
The primary episode of Stacey Solomon’s Renovation Rescue is offered to look at on Channel 4.