First-time house renovation

suisidevw

Hi all,

Just to say hey and checking in after reading Stolts post above. I still read this thread in full weekly, but as the house is nearly ther,e don't have that much to contribute! I could get some pics up of our garden that we've spent a lot of time on though!

Hope all are well.

Maggie, when are you in? must be good to go now?!

typeractive

Maggie - thank you so much!!!

...now I gotta get reading!

ukmaggie45

suisidevw wrote: »

I could get some pics up of our garden that we've spent a lot of time on though!

Hope all are well.

Maggie, when are you in? must be good to go now?!

Oooo garden pics please! :j After all in terms of house value garden counts too, so garden renovation just as important!

Lordy have no idea when we'll get in. We could move in now, but without the balustrade and bannister (on order) it's really difficult for me to get upstairs. Going to begin moving some of the smaller stuff in after DD1's wedding, or might even get a couple of bits over this weekend. We bought a couple of cheap Aldi camp beds with the idea we might sleep over occasionally, plus they'll be useful for visitors as it'll be a while before we get proper beds.

Still need glass panel putting in by kitchen door, and the replastering round the gas fire needs painting, plus there's some odd bits of touching up too. Render by living room bifold needs tidying up. But basically the house is habitable now.

Just (Friday 13th!) got told that council tax won't give us a second home rebate of 10% as we're not living there. So we're currently paying full council tax on 2 houses! :eek: :mad: OH has applied for disabled rebate now as the only reason we had downstairs shower room and toilet installed was down to my disability. I'm expecting them to refuse.

We still need to sort out telephone, broadband and TV too. Keep changing my mind over it all! Will have to pay however we do it as the telephone socket is in the hallway by the front door, and I want it in the living room for computer stuff. Hoping to have full length worktop along one wall to take all our computer paraphernalia, not sure how we'll do it yet, think will go for a kitchen worktop if we can get one long enough. At least we've planned it a bit in advance as have 3 double sockets in place high enuff to be above a highish worktop.

latecomer

This took some finding! way down on page 10

Not a lot happening with us. house has been cleared and mostly cleaned now. Just need to get all the details to the loss adjuster for next week as he's on holiday at the moment. Hopefully he's going to get back to us quickly but given the amount of stuff he's going to have to assess I'm not holding my breath.

We have moved into a serviced appartment now so at least we are all back together. makes things slightly more bareable. Another house near us has sold and its been on the market for about 18 months so its a good sign. that said we still need to get our finished before we can start thinking about selling.

spirit

latecomer wrote: »

This took some finding! way down on page 10

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Just click on User CP at the top LC and it shows you all the threads you have subscribed to.

TomsMom

latecomer wrote: »

This took some finding! way down on page 10

spirit wrote: »

Just click on User CP at the top LC and it shows you all the threads you have subscribed to.

Or click on THREAD TOOLS on the green bar above the top post and click on SUBSCRIBE TO THIS THREAD.

spirit

TomsMom wrote: »

Or click on THREAD TOOLS on the green bar above the top post and click on SUBSCRIBE TO THIS THREAD.

Hi tomsmom, He has subscribed to this thread anyway. If you post on any forum you have subscribed to it. The thread tools thing is useful if you want to watch a thread but not actually post a reply on it.

TomsMom

spirit wrote: »

Hi tomsmom, He has subscribed to this thread anyway. If you post on any forum you have subscribed to it. The thread tools thing is useful if you want to watch a thread but not actually post a reply on it.

I missed out an important bit set the notification to your choice of instant/daily/weekly emails, then you'll get an email with a link to the thread next time someone posts.

I set my notification on instant email for MSE but I belong to another forum, same format as this, whereby one of the choices, as well as email notification, is Do Not Subscribe.

If I reply to a post on that forum I have to remember to set the notification to "instant" when I first reply to any thread because their default is "daily". If I forget I can go to Thread Tools afterwards and set it from there.

stolt

started at 830 this morning finished about 830/9pm tonight the labourer that i was going to give £75 never arrived, probably had a few beers. really downhearted this morning knowing i had to do it on my own, neighbour came out to help me for 3 hours and that really help just when it was beating me. there but never got time to shred it all, job for tomorrow.

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typeractive

stolt wrote: »

started at 830 this morning finished about 830/9pm tonight the labourer that i was going to give £75 never arrived, probably had a few beers. really downhearted this morning knowing i had to do it on my own...

Know how you feel stolt. It's hard work facing some stuff on your own isn't it? Recently I've been up to a few tricks which are depressingly difficult. Including getting my cast iron bath down the stairs on my own, tidying the house in prep for workers this week (sounds nothing, but shuffling stuff from one room to another, painting rooms, laying floors, sorting odds n sodds is no fun when doing it all day on your own), and today I carried all my tiles for bathroom and en suite up the stairs. Luckily my dad popped over and offered a hand, bless him, he's getting on and I felt awful, so I was running around to stop him coming up the stairs very much. It was like a gym workout in itself!

I spoke to my mate later and he said "why didn't you just leave them for the tiler to move up?" I could have, but I thought it would be nice to lend a hand and prep as much as I can for others. My good deed for the day, even if it did wear me and dad out! lol.

On a side note, I'm REALLY pee'd off with B&Q. I ordered some cook and lewis bedroom futniture to build into fitted wardrobes. All arrived over Easter, except one unit had to be replaced due to missing a strip on the face of it (I did try and buy edging tape but the nearest B&Q that sells it was a holiday away, with no help of my local store gettign some in for me), so I sent it back, which disturbed my joiner being able to work on a planned day. I received the new unit a few weeks later, and guess what, when I assemble it - there is another fault!!! :mad::mad::mad:

Joiner is back this week. I'm trying to glue the fault up, purely so I don't have to exchange the unit again and lose more time and money. Fingers crossed it will be glued ok as I have clamped it over night. You would think they would be on top of quality control with this sort of stuff. Cook and lewis, more like !!!! and lewis.

I'm also having an issue with a TV supplier. All my plans are being ruined at the moment, due to people that don't give a crap!