Hello!
Wondering if anyone is in the process of, has decorated, or is going to decorate the upper floor (in a 1½ story house) themselves? How are you going about it? Are you hiring contractors, or handling it yourself?
Is it difficult?
What can be done yourself?
What is the smartest thing to start with?
What MUST you have a contractor for, besides an electrician for the electricity and a contractor for the bathroom?
Wondering if anyone is in the process of, has decorated, or is going to decorate the upper floor (in a 1½ story house) themselves? How are you going about it? Are you hiring contractors, or handling it yourself?
Is it difficult?
What can be done yourself?
What is the smartest thing to start with?
What MUST you have a contractor for, besides an electrician for the electricity and a contractor for the bathroom?
It's only the electricity that is a must.
You can do the bathroom yourself, as long as you make sure to follow BRK.
You can do the bathroom yourself, as long as you make sure to follow BRK.
In slanted ceilings, single drywall with CC 45 framework behind.SJODR said:Thanks for the responses.
Have you put up drywall walls? What is the slanted wall against the ceiling made of? Have you put drywall there as well?
Is it possible to carry all the materials up the stairs, or is there another solution?
Wall and gables, chipboard + drywall
Bathroom: double drywall
I bring in the materials from outside via the balcony door. Easier than stairs for me.
Thanx.
Hm, the problem is that we won't have a balcony door, but rather two windows on each gable of the house. I believe the windows will open in a way that they rotate fully around but are secured in the middle, so we can't bring in the drywall that way.
I'll check with the municipality regarding the water. But we haven't planned to fix the bathroom ourselves, it will cost what it costs. Does anyone know a good tiler in northwestern Skåne perhaps?
Hm, the problem is that we won't have a balcony door, but rather two windows on each gable of the house. I believe the windows will open in a way that they rotate fully around but are secured in the middle, so we can't bring in the drywall that way.
I'll check with the municipality regarding the water. But we haven't planned to fix the bathroom ourselves, it will cost what it costs. Does anyone know a good tiler in northwestern Skåne perhaps?
I have some information in the link below about how we went about furnishing our upper floor/loft which might be of some help.
http://www.byggahus.se/forum/showthread.php?t=thread_deleted8
Regarding getting building materials up to the upper floor, we have so far carried everything up the stairs except for the battens which I brought in through the windows wrapped in paper
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We haven't carried up the plasterboards yet, but it will probably end up being carried as well.
http://www.byggahus.se/forum/showthread.php?t=thread_deleted8
Regarding getting building materials up to the upper floor, we have so far carried everything up the stairs except for the battens which I brought in through the windows wrapped in paper
.We haven't carried up the plasterboards yet, but it will probably end up being carried as well.
Interesting pictures. I think we will understand them even better when we start decorating ourselves and need to purchase all the materials.
I saw that you had a skylight as well. Was the roof in place before you installed the skylight, or? How do you install a skylight afterward (which will be our case)?
I saw that you had a skylight as well. Was the roof in place before you installed the skylight, or? How do you install a skylight afterward (which will be our case)?
Doesn't sound like it will be that complicated to install it afterwards after all. But not sure if we can manage it ourselves. :-/
Our supplier said we could order skylights even though we had an unfinished attic, but then they would just carry up the window and leave it on the upper floor. Then we thought that for the price they wanted, we could hire someone to fix it afterwards + buy the window ourselves.
Did you do it yourselves or did you hire someone? If you hired someone and live in Skåne, maybe we could get a tip on who to hire?
Our supplier said we could order skylights even though we had an unfinished attic, but then they would just carry up the window and leave it on the upper floor. Then we thought that for the price they wanted, we could hire someone to fix it afterwards + buy the window ourselves.
Did you do it yourselves or did you hire someone? If you hired someone and live in Skåne, maybe we could get a tip on who to hire?
SJODR,
We had help from a carpenter to install the skylight. It felt okay to get help with this job so you don't have problems with water leakage. A carpenter who has installed skylights before probably does it faster than I would, as I would have had to keep reading the installation instructions.
xbengt,
If you know what you are getting for your 170,000 then it should be quite easy to check what a local building supplier would charge for the same set of materials. I think it sounds a bit expensive; if not, it doesn't seem much cheaper than buying it yourself.
We had help from a carpenter to install the skylight. It felt okay to get help with this job so you don't have problems with water leakage. A carpenter who has installed skylights before probably does it faster than I would, as I would have had to keep reading the installation instructions.
xbengt,
If you know what you are getting for your 170,000 then it should be quite easy to check what a local building supplier would charge for the same set of materials. I think it sounds a bit expensive; if not, it doesn't seem much cheaper than buying it yourself.
Our house manufacturer also offers that, but I don't remember the price, and we said we didn't want it. But I think they place as much material as needed for a certain room division, but if you want it differently, it's still not the right amount of everything you need :-? But maybe you can buy a lot of drywall while they are building the house and ask them to lift it in before the roof is in place?Inger.P. said: