Transcription
[Applause] [Music]
Hello team, this is Daniel Kennedy and Steadfast Prescription and Design. We are here at Lincoln. I'm just going to show you what we've been up to.
First fix plumbing is now done. The first fix electric is going on upstairs. All the structural works are done, and we've got some roof works being done. Uh, just on the ground floor, I'm going to show you. It's a massive change from previous because a lot of the shapes of the units now are all complete and ready to be boarded up post-perspect of the spark. So let me show you what we've been up to.
[Music]
So, as per the EPC recommendations, we're dropping the ceiling. [Music] And that's what's going on here. We've insulated the floor. We'll be putting sound insulation up here and then dropping the ceilings. Where I'm stood, there's going to be a wall, and then that's going to be a unit. We've got the water connected, and then that's all going to be insulated. All that rear section has been rebuilt. I won't disturb them as they're working hard, but let's go to the middle floor.
So, this is the foyer. So this has been insulated. We had to leave this uninsulated to facilitate the stairs. It was a bit of a tight fit. So what we will do is, depending on when we finish and we put the stairs on there, we might insulate this layer as well and then take out these side ridges. So this is all new. We currently got a planning application in to put a wooden sash window there. This is going to be nine flats and two commercial units.
So, as you can see, the site was clean, but sparks are on site, so now it's a mess. Um, so this is going to be a kitchen. Oh, uh, here we've got the entrance into the unit. So that's going to get blocked up, and then that'll be the way into the bedroom. This will be the living room. Uh, that would be the bathroom. That'll be the kitchen again. This is an entrance. This one's a bit unique. So this will be the living room, the kitchen, and then up here we have a corridor, some original, and, um, with some original paneling. Thank you. Here you'll have the bathroom for the unit, and then this is the bedroom for the unit.
So what they're doing now, they're just planning the where the sockets are going and deciphering the plans that we created. So you've got your bathroom there. This is going to be the kitchen, and then that's a bedroom. Sorry, excuse me. So, so what you're looking at here, guys, is you've got clips underneath these rails, and the boards are going to be placed upon the rails. These acoustic boards, 215 mil. Those clips have like a rubber connection that prevent the sound from traveling from unit to unit because these, all of these units are going to get sound tested because they're new build units. So it's something that initially I was quite nervous about, but we basically learned how to do it on Park Road, and now we're implementing that same system here.
So I'm going to show you downstairs what we need to do to drop the ceilings to enable us to lower them and get them, we get the volume lower of the unit. So the EPCs are higher because as well as the sound program, we have to adhere to the new EPC regs. And so this is how we drop the ceilings. So we have the rods and the rails go on, and then you have the plasterboard. Well, unfortunately, to lower the volume of the room again for the EPC, we have to build these little boxes in front of the windows because we can't just have a step just because it looks awful. Uh, because we couldn't lower it to 2.4 where it's needed to the EPC, so we have a gradual slope, some more steep than others, but you can see well how it's going to look. And then now that we've got the first fix being done, we can close up the water and put the insulation on, which will be happening when the sparks are done.
And there we have it, team. So that is Lincoln, nine flats, two commercial units. First fix electrics will be done on the top two floors, then we can get the insulation on the outside walls, uh, in preparation for the boarders who are over currently over at Coventry. Then they're going to go stand more, then are going to come up here and board. Uh, we're going to be insulating for them, so all they need to do is board, and they won't be plastering this. They'll be returning back, and then someone else will be coming up and doing the spray plaster. So it's a very, very exciting time with massive leaps forward in terms of the project schedule, and this site has really fallen by the wayside because it's been difficult to get trades up from Birmingham where I get them at better prices versus the locals. So that's sort of been a bug there, but now everyone's on board. We've got the new team.
We also have to say goodbye to our project manager, uh, Louis Carter. So thank you for all your work. We appreciate you. It's been four years of happy memories, and good luck in your new ventures. Shortly, in a few weeks, I'll be introducing the new person who's going to be taking over Steadfast of Construction, as we have a, a new director who's eventually I'm going to step down after I've delivered these couple of jobs, and that personal step up, and long may it continue. Um, the great thing about this is we have everything planned out. We know what kitchens we're using, we know what wallpaper we're using, we know what paint we're using, etc. It's going to be the standard gray. What gray would work? White walls. Um, so the inside is going to look like every other HMO. At the outside, it's going to be flawless because we've got a grant to do up the front, and that's where I am going to go now and spend a bit of admin trying to sort out the final steps to get that issued and booked in.
Right, cheers. Thank you.