Plans for our new part roofed terrace.
 

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It looks good. What is the width?

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W 7.5m across rear of house and 5.5m .... so 41.25m2. Quite a few neighbouring properties have similar sized terrace.

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Looks very nice in the digital rendering, They did a very good job. I hope it brings you many years of happiness soon.

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To be honest it won't look as fantastic digitally but we can't wait for access at rear of property to give us more privacy. We have a side entrance and that's the only one. At rear will be two, from lounge or kitchen. In lounge there's a CH pipe which needs rerouting and in kitchen radiator needs removing and new smaller radiator added with rerouted CH pipe. Had a plumber here yesterday to find a solution. He was very switched on. Potential future job to change CH and boiler.
There's been a few hiccups as mentioned in other posts but everyone is working to resolve everything.

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Looks szuper, Nick!

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To be honest this is the house my wife wanted. She didn't like one iota bit of my preferred house which has an extra bedroom, more space, plus two outbuildings, one which could be converted to a granny annexe with another as guest bedroom with bathroom, plus double size our garden. But looking long term I've reined in my wants to think of when we're much older. Bottom line I do not want to move again. Our house with the soon to be new terrace is enough for us.
The bad news for my wife is I might buy a houseboat or barge or narrowboat... Sorry, I'm half kidding ... or am I not.

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If the wooden cross beam at the outboard side of the roof was replaced with a steel beam then there would be no need for the two vertical supports in the middle of the terrace so you would have a clear, more useable space.

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That's something we didn't think about! Arrhghh. The roofed terrace part will be 3m. Our hallway is 3.25m, by comparison, I think that covered terrace space is more than enough for us. I've measured our dining room table and space needed for chairs and think the two middle vertical supports won't be in the way.
We had our dining table in middle of hallway on boxing day and there was plenty of space all round so think we'll stick to the current design. Great idea though.

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So is it too late to modify the plan? 'cos whilst you have enough space fro the table and chairs you will forever be walking around the posts in the middle of the terrace.

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Looks great. I'd love to see a real photo once it's all finished. :)

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Just seen your post.
Good point but I think both myself and other half are happy to keep the same design. If we regret it then we'd only have ourselves to blame.
There's been some more digging to find out exactly where the septic tank or whatever it is is located. The diggers have found three slabs with those hoops to lift them up. No plans to do that. They are going to make another hole somewhere so the builder can see inside. Got a feeling we will have to fill it up with concrete. My research states a price of £100-140 per cubic metre depending on grade of cement.
No idea how old the septic tank is but must be atleast 30 years as sister-in-law mentioned they planned to install septic tank about 30 years ago for their house but then found out new mains were being installed in the village so didn't need one.
Arrrggghhh!

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Will do that. The exterior walls need repainting so won't be soon. I need a break and a holiday. The dogs want their garden back.

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Just realised I haven't updated you of the latest news on our new terrace.
I will post more this weekend but briefly we've decided the roof will cover the whole terrace. The reason being standing where the current plans for the end of the roof will be there's very little shade so unless we add blinds or curtains we'd get no enjoyment on the new terrace when the sun is beating down. It's only June so what's July and August going to be like. We asked the builders to create a patio rather than have a narrow paved area all around. Within the new fully roofed terrace we will have additional outdoor living space.
The new doors and windows have been fitted. But gotta say I'm not happy with the window sill as it doesn't match with the other windows we had installed. In short the "look" isn't consistent with the other windows.

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I should add the window is smaller than we asked for by 5cm. We were told the width to be cut in the wall. If the window is the correct size that means we cut 5cm too much!!!
Not sure what we can do about it. I think a sum of money should be refunded.

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Are you going to show some in progress pics? ;)

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Agree, we would like to see how things are progressing. :thumbsup:

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Not much to write home about! It's been very much a stop and start project.
Door on left is kitchen door. Every morning since I have a cup of tea looking out at the hills.

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Looking great, it'll be so good to chill out on that terrace on an evening.

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Looking better than when you were dealing with the mysterious underground concrete structure in the garden. I cannot wait to see it completed.

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I cannot wait to be finally sitting on the terrace.
Looking out of the new doors/window up the hill we find it very calming. Before we had just as per attachment.
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The photos from inside looking out don't do it justice. The view is a 'die for killer view' .... I think what we've paid for the doors and window has probably raises the value of our house by double the value for the works we paid. The building boss partner has been here a few times .... I swear .... She'd like her partner to buy our house!!! No way.

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I'm actually flipping mad that what we thought was a septic tank underneath this 1m x 2m slab cover was just soil! The nearby septic tank was filled with old bricks left behind by previous owners plus rubble and soil. I'm so glad we didn't listen to our friends advice to put a garage under the raised terrace. It would have wiped away a huge chunk of our garden and the logistics having discovered the septic tank would have created too many problems.

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the view from lounge .... sorry about the scaffolding. I sometimes get dizzy looking at it!

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That's a nice mountainous forest view

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Nick, what a view. I have a Forest view as well but another landowner decided to cut a gulley behind my property so his sheep could get to another paddock he owns. Only problem is, he cut it in a Natura 2000 protected zone. Of course no one was happy about it but since he is somehow connected he will likely get away with it.

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contrast this with buying mother-in-law property which is to the right of what you see .... much better view where we are.... house value increased by 25%

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Oops, I should have said my mother-in-law property is up the hill to the right and camouflaged by those trees you see.
I'm at our breakfast table drinking a coffee and looking up to the hills. Very relaxing.

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Right now feeling quite annoyed our large stiff bristle brush has gone missing. No idea if builders took it by mistake or was it the window fitters. Doubt it was the latter. Had the broom for fifteen years. Wanted to sweep up mess left by builders and window fitters but no broom!

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That's a long time to have the same broom !!
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:thumbsup:

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Nice view Nick - a good view is so important, one of the big attractions when bought this apartment!

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beautiful scenery.

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Not bad for a cityscape!

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:thumbsup:

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Congratulations!
The really good thing about the surrounding greenery is the better air quality!
Our young ones also moved from the Pest side to a panel house in the Buda hills - when we visit them and look down over the Danube I shutter.

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Which district are they in?

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I never get bored with the views surrounding my house !!
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Szuper! Can never have too many trees!

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We have a nice outlook towards Balaton
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Don't know the number, it's on top of Rozsadomb and there's a small forest nearby called Ferenc Hegy, very nice for a walk.
Of course it wasn't cheap, now???