For many house builders (including those who renovate, restore ...) is a very important point: height. In order to overcome height and still have security should always build a framework (leave). My experience is that you can make an offer of a scaffolding company and then quickly decided to build a framework. It is not at all times as expensive, but it cost so experience According to the 1600 Euro (about 120qm) including the first 4 weeks rent. Another 4 weeks, then only around 400 euros.

If we now builds and much course want to make then is the time scaffolding for a quick time 3-4 months. So they come loose 2400 euros plus VAT The construction phase may experience 2-3 years (always assuming one is even on rumwerken!). Judging from the north of our country that is mostly everything verklinkert
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Once we have the roof (see article here) back to front man and brought the skeleton was already anyway, we decided also equal, the plaster of sandstone masonry wegzuklopfen. In the near future, I will still way or on the outdoor field report, so here only 2 photos.

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The exterior is a pretty big project, what we actually have been accompanied the first day. Therefore, it is also planned that I will still be explicitly reported (with several photos)

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At the beginning is always the idea, the desire and / or the dream. Some people also say: At the top is the vision. When we had the house before they buy have viewed, we knew that a lot of work ahead of us, but with so much space was also more space for your own dreams and visions. All rooms should be large turn out, was finally enough space anywhere!

In addition to the bedrooms, a private bathroom for us out, the idea was unanimously "eingelocht." Firstly, we have the door in the hallway zugemauert, but should be only one entrance to the bathroom there, and that even if only on the bedrooms. Then had a breakthrough in the mistaken thick walls are made:

Once that's done was, it should go in the bathroom. So many ideas came up and place was enough, we just laid off.

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... Since the last time I have this beautiful ruins and have written since the roof once this was brought to Vordernamm. Immediately beforehand, the boat does not belong to us, it is "parked" here for a good friend of ours and hopefully soon come back into the water, so we have more space to work.

We have initially worked at the main house, sometime around here even once to retract. When we were finally recovered, had once worked continues to be. But now we live in the so-called "Tuscany" from Germany and have been here quite early very nice weather, can quite often with dry or warm days.

So it was now time to the rooftops to be addressed. Here enige aspects were important to us as:

1. It should be possible, the original material used
2. There should be little or no money
3. It should still fit into the overall picture

To achieve this we are as follows:

1st The old pans had to be down from the roof. However, we have gradually made:

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It is some time ago since my last update for my Castle. There was just to many things i had to do ...

Let us talk about my sleeping room. It is exactly above the kitchen, so it had mostly the same size ruffly 60sqm (* 9 then you have feet). Thats the reason we thus build up a room in the room for our cabinet. That room had no real doors inside and there were no real entrance. We found more or less random by the door to this room. Well there were a lot of Speculation about the room above the kitchen but it took us a bit of time to find out how best to step into. The first thing we did then was cleaning the dust from maybe 40 or 50 years untouched walls and get into two openings for the new doors. One into our office and one into our own bathroom.

Click the link to see all the pictures and the "development" of that really nice room.

Here you can see the room when you view to the street:

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When we moved into our house it was so unbelievable important to get a bathroom You know, the "Girl Thing" well. We had that old "living room / kitchen / storeroom" which got our piano room, library, storage room and guest bathroom. As our house is really huge we decide to have the luxury to have a couple of bathrooms, so one for our kits, one for us (only connected through our own sleeping room) a bathroom in the 1st floor, which is also for guests.

So after we made the walls we started to empty the room and made it ready for a bathroom:

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As i said in a preview article so i want comment the way i build my house. I bought you remember that old Castle and i try to fix it step by step. Sometimes i have some help and sometimes i do it on my own.

Today i want show you my kitchen. Alan you might remember The Kitchen was not really a part of the house itself. So I made a very large hole into the wall between the main house and that part. In the past it got used as a garage for a carpenter. But the room was so big and i saw it as it might look in the end and made the decision that i want absolutely use it as our kitchen. Once all the old machines got taken out of the room we had a first base:

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By the beginning of 2005 yellowTAB which is running more and more and we moved with our office to a bigger place. We were growing up I had to be in Mannheim all the time and it was kinda frustrating to stay in a small apartment while i had a nice house in northern Germany. My wife and my two kids used to life there. Another thing my idea about what an ideal world and father. In my opionion a father have to build a home for his family on his own. Our house in north Germany we bought when we were 24th It is a two family house and i had to rebuild a lot in it but it was not something that i could say the i-when-i build for my family. The other thing is that i am from South Australia and this is a totally different kind of people than in the north. I was fading like a flower in the 17 years i had to life in the north.

So in March 2005 i started to look for a new house for us in the south. I wanted to build it myself but yellowTAB used me at least 13-16 hours every day, even on weekends. So what to do? Well find a nice house which i can work at least in it as i did in our house in the north. I contacted several dealers house to find something. Nothing was really nice and i did not love what i saw. The last dealer we had showed me a house and said this is the house for me. I was looking and well well well it was "ok" but i did not really feel my heart beating. He said then: Look we have a very old house, hmm 300 years or so, but it is TOTALLY broken, no more roof, no heading, no power, no real windows, all done in sandstone .... i said: Well lets have a look and we drove there. And you know what? IT WAS AWESOME! I am a visionary, and this is my real passion. The house was A 300 year old Beer Brewing house with an amazing cellar and with about 2,700 sqm (1 sqm = 9 sqf) living ground, but as i said: totally broken. I came into the office switched on my laptop and started my CAD software to plan it and make the visualization of it in 3D. Today i can tell you it is at least 90% of what i thought it should be when i am done. Some of my friends followed it and never said that i can move into it as this is the task force "Mission Impossible".

To end of the story Today i want to show home photos of it and about the progress i did. I think i will do it step by step. Funny is that while i uploaded the photos i felt all of it again and how hard it was to do all that things. Most of the stuff i did my self with some help from friends and my family. But in the end i Invested even by 1000 already now of hours into that house and i do not miss a single hour!

I write that article inside my office on a laptop which stands on the desk i did myself. Here you can see the office when i started to work on it:

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