First-time house renovation

aliasojo

Aw, good luck and have a brill day and a great honeymoon.



*slinks off feeling jealous about stolt's house AND rose's hols.*

littlerose12345

aliasojo wrote: »

Aw, good luck and have a brill day and a great honeymoon.



*slinks off feeling jealous about stolt's house AND rose's hols.*

Hehe thank you

stolt

aliasojo wrote: »

Aw, good luck and have a brill day and a great honeymoon.



*slinks off feeling jealous about stolt's house AND rose's hols.*

lol, stop picking on me..... maldives = paradise. now i;m jealous. Me and my missus got married in st lucia and had to stop off at maldives. one day i plan to take the kids back to show where mummy and daddy got married.

Got this week off work, managed to get a few things done in the kitchen (small little jobs i kept putting off, went to old mcdonalds farm today with the kids, and i managed to get bitten by a emu!! if that wasnt shocking enough i put all the kids into shock when it was an instinctive slap! yes i'm probably the only person to slap a emu!! the look on the poor kids faces!

it was fine after a couple of minutes it woke up and it got back to his feet:D


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its ok, i didnt really knock it out!!!


Tomorrow my parents are taking the kids out, me and the missus are going back make the best use of the time on our own!!! (get that mind out the gutter)

we are going light shopping!

hmmm well its a nightmare dragging three kids around any shops let alone boring furniture shops and light shops at least we can concentrate on what we need to get.

typeractive

stolt wrote: »

it was fine after a couple of minutes it woke up and it got back to his feet:D

LMFAO! heheheh :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

stolt

typeractive wrote: »

LMFAO! heheheh :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

you think thats funny, when i showed my missus the picture on the laptop she said '' wow i didnt realise they had teeth like that!!'' Left it to the kids to tell her it doesn't have dinosaur type teeth, but now thinking about it i could have left it a bit longer, might of got a bit of sympathy........

ukmaggie45

stolt wrote: »

you think thats funny, when i showed my missus the picture on the laptop she said '' wow i didnt realise they had teeth like that!!'' Left it to the kids to tell her it doesn't have dinosaur type teeth, but now thinking about it i could have left it a bit longer, might of got a bit of sympathy........

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Back to honeymoons... We had ours in Barmouth, and then at the caravan (a very different one to the one we now have on the same site!) and mostly it rained and rained and the wind blew and blew and we didn't have any heating and it was freezing. It was the middle of June after all! We spent most of our time driving around in the (hired) car as it had a good heater and it was the only way to get warm. We went home 5 days early, and needless to say the weather immediately changed to really hot.

Oh well, at least we got to know a lot of the little lanes around here, something that has been useful for shortcuts since then!

TomsMom

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Back to honeymoons... We had ours in Barmouth, ......... and mostly it rained and rained and the wind blew and blew and we didn't have any heating and it was freezing.

Not much has changed then :rotfl: .

Over the last few weeks its ............... rained and rained..........and the wind has blewn and blewn ........... and we had the heating on last night :rotfl: .

We have had a few sunny days though, but not many. We had nicer weather in February .

The garden's coming on :T, I wont blog it until it's finished, probably early next week.

suisidevw

Miserable in Cardiff for a couple of weeks but looking nice today! I'm keen to get the fire stoked but Lowri adament not for a couple of months! One day she'll return from work to see me warming my tootsies by it

andrew-b

Here making slow progress on the hall. Think i'm fending off a cold or something and feeling a bit lethargic. So much to do though i really need to force myself to carry on regardless!

I've removed the carpet which i'd been dreading doing as i wasn't sure the state the thermoplastic floor tiles underneath would be in. The tredaire underneath was still in one piece but starting to disintegrate. Whoever fitted the carpet had nailed gripper rod into the tiles which of course made them crack wherever a nail was. Where i could i glued back pieces of tile and where i couldn't i've screeded over with cement. Apart from one broken tile near the threshold to the lounge the rest were firmly stuck.

Spent a whole day sanding down the corridor end which i'd repaired the ceiling on and filled up the electric cable chases and then sanding down ALL of the woodwork (6 door frames) and knocking in any protruding nail heads. I was covered head to toe in a mixture of polyfilla dust and paint dust! The entire house is also once again coated in dust! Had to wash down the sofas before i could sit down to rest after!

Ideally i'd like to have replaced all the skirtings and architraves but simply can't afford it so i'm having to tart up what's already there which i'm sure is going to take far longer than replacing!

We were going to get carpet tiles yesterday at B&Q for both the hall and the bathroom as there was an offer on but decided they weren't good enough (bit too office like and not soft enough) plus they didn't have as many as i would have needed in the colour we would have gone for. Probably get some Heuga ones instead but at the local supplier they are upstairs so not accessible for me to get to see on show. Think i'll go back and send wife up to have a look and get them to bring samples down for me to see. TomsMom what were your Heuga one's in your loft room and where from..do you remember what you paid per tile roughly?

Handful of clickable pictures showing the hall floor:

TomsMom

Hi Andy

Hope you shake off your cold soon, winter colds are bad enough but summer ones seem so much worse.

Glad your making progress in the hallway. Did you finish the bathroom .

We looked at all the carpet tiles from the sheds and came to the same conclusion as you. We thought it was better to pay the extra and have Heuga, especially for the bedroom.

The ones we had were actually being discontinued and replaced with something similar. We had Simply Soft which I think were recommended for a bedroom but I don't know the name of the newer one that replaced them. For a hallway you'd probably want one from a different range, their brochure recommends different ones for different situations.

They were £4.77 plus VAT per tile :eek: (gosh, I wish TD hadn't just told me that) but we got the cheapest internet price and went back to our trusty local independent shop and asked him to price match, which he did.

You might think for that price some good quality by the sq metre is better - shruggy shoulders??? The only reason we had carpet tiles was because we couldn't get a roll up the dog-leg staircase plus the restricted head height would have made it difficult also, it would have had to be from 5m wide carpet as the room is so big.