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spoke to you on Tweakers board already .
So there has been some time passed, i have been busy working and building in my home.
Not always going great, there have been and still are some downsides.
Especially with hiring "professional" people to take some work off my hands, that resulted in 10 x more work and stress with hiring a advocate etc etc.
So if im not mistaking here is where i left.
I needed to bring the air/water heathpump upstairs , pelletstove, and the rest of the heating/cooling equipment.
borrowd a "kanalen lift" to get it up but it was a bit exciting since it can handle 300kg.
When we brought the pelletstove upstairs the noises it made where not nice to hear
Also in the mean time someone crashed into my van when standing still for a few minutes already.
Great , it was brand new , about 4000km on the clock.
Made a "plenum box" from hdpe for the heath exchanger ventilation system.
Made a drawing in sweethome 3d to see what i could do with the measurements.
I also had a great idea to keep a little stairs in the garage, since there is coming a lift i wanted to keep something to run upstairs instead of using the lift everytime.
So i cut the old stairs in half and it works actually better then expected.
Also went to one of my tile selling neighbors in the street and chose these ceramic tiles with wood look.
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Plans where to lay them in myself in the 2 week holiday i took.
But i started with my toilet/shower/bathroom for my garage and heating and cooling system first that took a but longer then i wanted so no tiling yet.
needed to move the sewer for the toilet and make some other connections for the shower and the sink,
since the parts are to big and i wanted to save height i welded the pvc parts so they are shorter.
resulting in this pvc spider
time for the water connections, used Polypropylene plastic and made the frame for the floor.
used some osb wood and "betonplex" to get it more sturdy when you would walk on it.
Wanted to make my own shower/sewer water heat exchanger but i bought it from marktplaats since it was pretty cheap.
Later that week the pallet arrived with tiles for my 1st floor.
Also the ventilation tubes arrived and i started moving/building the system
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the silver flexible tube is temporarily and is a sound dampening tube
A friend of mine came over to drill some holes because the concrete is to hard to do it myself and would take to long, 8 holes only costed me 50 euros.
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hole for the ventilation in my garage bathroom
Later that week i drove to somewhere in brabant to pick up a lift for my garage.
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luckily they used it for the same purpose so they had rebuild it already.
Started to install the shower/sewer heatexchanger
Then in the last weekend of the holiday i decided to build something in my van to put some tools in it.
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quite happy with it, made some sliders from hdpe plastic so it would move easily.
and not to forget , some audio for the long trips
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when i have a dent, probably i can push it out with this subwoofer
Somewhere later that week i welded from PP plastic a header for every water connection in my house.
with in mind when i switch over to collected rain water for the toilets and probably other things later on.
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and started to connect some pipes
My dad found a advertisement on marktplaats, selling cheap radiators that supported low water temperature ( 30/40 degrees LTV) specially designed for heath pump systems and so on.
These have also computer fans installed in them that can heat or cool down a room much faster.
Since i have the possibility to cool with my system this will be a cheap airco system in the summer.
The buffertank also arrived from stiebel eltron as you can see in the background. (600l Wsol 601 el or something is the name)
So here it is, the drawing i made to see if it would fit what i planned to do.
And the black thing on the ground is a HDPE plastic plate that i am welding into a big drip tray.
Here you see the pellet stove placed
needed to lift something to the first floor again, this time the buffer tank and i placed a big wooden beam between the steel supports.
terrible job with just 2 stairs..
time again for my garage bathroom.
I must add this was my first time, took probably longer then i would have thought but i was quite happy it was finally finished
Because of this i thought , hmmm, if i have to put the floor tiles on the floor upstairs this will take me 2 weeks.
I will hire someone that has experience and does it in a few days.
This was the worst thing i have done, asked to keep the walls clean , since they were already painted.
Aswer was that it was no problem they would do it etc etc no protection needed nothing, they have 25 years or experience .
I tried to look them up on there phone number names , everything i could find to see a bad review.
Only thing i noticed where pretty nice results on pictures.
So i thought, whats the worst thing that could happen , they asked even 200 € more to finish the job then a local tiler.
Since the local tilers was to busy and thought lets do it.
First thing was, hmm oke looks good when i arrived home and i went to the neighbors.
That evening i came home and switched on the lights.
Walls dented, gray spots , cement spots , ruined.
i confronted him and he said it was my fault, i should have know this could happen and later he denied he worked there.
Asked to solve this normally but he was insured and told his insurance the same story that he didnt do it.
Another thing that happened is that the way he glued the tiles on the floor was not correct, we spoke about keeping space between the walls since the tiles "shrink/expand" and otherwise they will break or pop out.
And the tiles since the size needed to be glued with a butting and floating technique , in short, put glue on the floor, and glue on the back of the tile.
This information is on the back of the cement readable and he knew the glue , very good material etc etc.
about 13 hours later i could take some tiles out of the glue bed with 2 fingers.
it was late that evening and to prevent more damage i took out the part he put on the floor, cleaned the tiles and wrote that night an email what he was thinking and why he did not do it like it should be applied.
This happened about 1.5 months ago now, i gave him a 2 week period to do it the right way and i will pay them.
No answer , only from his insurance that says they can't talk to me directly and they will handle the case
Lucky me that i installed a camera with audio, recording the stairs, he came to my house and did not notice the stickers on my front door that say there are audio and video recordings in the building.
on this video he was trying to "repair" the walls with a scotch bright sponge , but the insurance company said that their client told him that he never worked there or have touched the wall.
I said i have a video recording as proof with audio, but i was a bit withholding to send it right away and i first let a advocate look into it .
Privacy rules and all, it could be a fine for about 16.000€ in worst case or jail time,
but last week i got the green light and in my case it was oke to use as proof.
Today haha i received an email from Unive, they said, we discussed with our client and decided to pay the repair costs +/- 700€
First thing that came in mind, sure, what else can you say if your client is busy repairing walls with a scotch bright haha.
Getting information everywhere from glue manufacturers for the right way to apply , and what if its not applied as described what will happen.
So going to court with it to get the other costs back.
Anyway thats that, instead of 10 steps forward i went 10 back, allot of trouble and shit on the phone email money etc.
I decided to put the tiles in myself, boy that's some work and killing for your lower back.
Another thing is that the tiles are not rectified i found out last saturday when bringing a tile to another store to get some "voegmiddel" Grout in the tile color.
i Told the store that i had big problems and difference in tiles, some where not straight and so on.
He said they are not rectified......
Thats great , my tile selling neighbor sold me this pallet as rectified tiles.
No wonder i could not get them aligned with a 2 mm joint?
So this is the next part i contacted the seller about, no answer .
I said to them nicely that i felt screwed around ? in the maling genomen.
Since the total price was about 3300 € its not that i bought a b product or something...
Problems problems and more problems.
Well enough talk, here some pics of my work.
Back to the garage bathroom, time to "finish" it
temporarily connection on the air /water heathpump so i could take a shower and have hot water when changing my other system.
There is a bit more but its time for bed again.
hope your internet connection won't crash or browser haha.