Well, it's coming!

[thommo335]

LOL you need room for the big screen to watch Live Snooker. No Crochet room in the Snooker Club.

42" LED Samsung with a Pioneer soundbar, Sky etc. The TV is on the opposite wall to the 'snug' so will work perfectly. Might just be finished in time for Englands first World Cup match!

[luke-h]

That is going to look brilliant when it's finished. gahhhhhh i want one

[lmf1471]

Looks great, keep the photos coming

[thommo335]

http://s150.photobucket.com/user/tho...snooker%20room

Big week, last week, roof all on now, windows all in, everything glazed. Livin' room pelmet installed, (yes, that is the correct spelling!) first fix sparks.
Next week - plasterboarding and skimming,second fix electrics, Sky TV install, floor tiling then over to me to paint before the air to air heat pumps get put in.

[biffer]

wow looking good, you are in a hurry to get playing, never seen a build go up so quick.

[coomsey76]

Nice work Tommo..... It's starting to take shape nicely!!

[thommo335]

Thanks,
yep, the guys have put a shift in, certainly. Different teams of workers for each aspect, all work for the main contractor but all do their own self employed work too, all have been first class, communicative, punctual, tidy it's been problem free so far.............the whole build from one element to the next has been seamless, very organized in getting next trade on site at the right time with no gaps in working. The date for roof frame was May 27th so the brickies put in a couple of Saturdays to catch up from some bad weather and the loss of 2 days for the piling.
Work started May 8th so it has been pretty quick. Only hiccup was the need to pile the foundations - there's 16 piles in all, round the periphery and in the central reinforced floor beam, basically because after digging 5-6 feet down, they couldn't find decent ground only backfill material. We are close to a stream but the stream is about 3m lower than the house so they reckon when the house was built, the retaining garden wall was backfilled against then a membrane then topsoil and turf So £6k went into the ground.......at least I know when I come home from work one day, I won't find the building in the stream!

[DeanH]

coming along nicely there Thommo
question, with all that glass how are you going to protect the table from the direct sunlight?

[jrc750]

Looking lovely that

[thommo335]

coming along nicely there Thommo
question, with all that glass how are you going to protect the table from the direct sunlight?

With a table cover!!!! To be honest I don't think I'll get too much daytime use and if it's that sunny I'll be playing golf instead.
The glass in the roof is the lowest light and heat transmission we could find. It has an aqua tint to it and reflects something like 78%of the light.

[DeanH]

With a table cover!!!! To be honest I don't think I'll get too much daytime use and if it's that sunny I'll be playing golf instead.
The glass in the roof is the lowest light and heat transmission we could find. It has an aqua tint to it and reflects something like 78%of the light.

ok, thanks for that

[thommo335]

ok, thanks for that

Hope you don't think I was being a little flippant - t'was a valid question re the sunlight and one of my first thoughts too - the table cover was actually the first thing I bought - even before the table, a nice black fitted Peradon one as Geoff recommended on here. Being bothered to keep putting it on is another matter.......

[DeanH]

Well, it's coming!

no no
those black fitted covers are great.
I was sure you would have a table cover but I was thinking of the wood of the table surround and legs.
Don't know that much about the glass you mentioned but sounds like you have done a bit of investigating before you settled on the glass you have fitted
I have been to a club which had sun light direct on one side and the table surround and legs were terrible
What table have your got?

[lesedwards]

With a table cover!!!! To be honest I don't think I'll get too much daytime use and if it's that sunny I'll be playing golf instead.
The glass in the roof is the lowest light and heat transmission we could find. It has an aqua tint to it and reflects something like 78%of the light.

That's good answer. I spent yesterday playing golf, so much easier and enjoyable. Spent this afternoon practicing Snooker and could not pot a thing.....LOL Cheers to golf. Keep the photos coming.

[DeanH]

Well, it's coming!

I was also going to ask but after the details of the glass you decribed earlier probably not; but where you having those auto blinds on the glass panels?