First-time house renovation

Hejo

Stolt - your house looks amazing !!!!!! wish our extension was like that - its taken a year, still not finished and I am losing the will to live. How do you all keep going. I wish we'd never started ours!

ukmaggie45

Hejo wrote: »

Stolt - your house looks amazing !!!!!! wish our extension was like that - its taken a year, still not finished and I am losing the will to live. How do you all keep going. I wish we'd never started ours!

Hello Hejo, I don't recognise your name (but I'm brainfogged) so Welcome to the Thread! You will be glad you did your extension in (say) 5 years time? Stolt's house does look amazing, but if you read the thread from the start you will see how many difficulties he had. As have many of the rest of us!

How about a few photos of how your extension is going? Me and TomsMum are really [STRIKE]nosey[/STRIKE] interested in other folks work, and most of the rest of us are too I think.

TM, while I'm here, hope you are doing OK. Hugs. Hope you got your paint sorted!

Oh and in case life gets too busy in the next few days, Merry Christmas to all of you. :xmassign:

Hejo

Thanks for the welcome Maggie. I will dig out my camera and post some pix up. I will hold onto your advice. We expected to be finished by May/June! We have had a fair few problems and everyone in the house is so miserable right now - especially me! Ah well, not long to go now ( as I've been saying for the past 16 weeks!)

typeractive

Hejo wrote: »

Stolt - your house looks amazing !!!!!! wish our extension was like that - its taken a year, still not finished and I am losing the will to live. How do you all keep going. I wish we'd never started ours!

Hejo - welcome

Keep in there buddy. I've had my house 2 years and not slept in it yet! :eek: ...I'm getting closer obviously, and my friends are so excited that they want to come and 'camp' inside the house between Christmas and New Year! :rotfl:I have floorboards up and all sorts of hazards to try and sort!

If I had the final thousands to complete and a month or so to orchestrate it I'd be pretty much ready to furnish.

latecomer

@Hejo - welcome and hang in there. If you need any re-assurance that its all worth it just try going back through the thread - something of the transformations are amazing.

@maggie - look great. Very bright
@typer - Ah if money was no object everything could be done quickly but there would also not be much need for this thread - hence it would be a bad thing

We got an email from the main loss adjuster i.e. not the idiot we have been working for to confirm the amount subject to us emailing the signed form back, so hopefully just the building warrant to go and we are good to sell. Watch this space early next year and I'll post up pics of the final look

typeractive

Christmas Update:

Had a small party planned to cheer up a workfriend who has a very poorly mum at the moment. They wanted to come and have a sleep over / camp in my house. Not fully safe I spent £300 to get it to a solid state (level joining rooms and floors etc etc), overt he odds for a very highly rated joiner. The work was crap, and my builder (neighbour) came to my rescue to put it right. Another recommended tradesperson who wasn't up to scratch.

On Christmas day I find out the friend can't make it. Absolutely !!!!ed off as I was getting really excited.

Today - £220 to get car through MOT (not house related I know)
Today - plumber £240 to sort oven hob, install timer and frost stat to boiler and a few other bits n bobs here and there I wanted.

Boiler now has some sort of fault which isn't obvious and no central heating. Plumber will have to return (I paid him is parts).

I'm on a serious roll of bad luck these past few months. Every single, tiny detail that can go wrong - has done. No joke. Sick to the back teeth. I'm not only talking about the house either, work rest and play - the lot.

I can only hope for a decent new year. Everyone says, "it's not that bad / it'll get better / the house is nearly done" yadda yadda yadda but they aren't the ones working, saving, paying and waiting. Feel like my life has been on hold so much recently - I question is it worth it? Of course when I look back in the future I'll probably (hopefully say yes), but it's not as if the house is some kind of masterpiece architecture...far from it! Ugh!

....Merry Christmas eh?

stolt

typeractive wrote: »

Christmas Update:

Had a small party planned to cheer up a workfriend who has a very poorly mum at the moment. They wanted to come and have a sleep over / camp in my house. Not fully safe I spent £300 to get it to a solid state (level joining rooms and floors etc etc), overt he odds for a very highly rated joiner. The work was crap, and my builder (neighbour) came to my rescue to put it right. Another recommended tradesperson who wasn't up to scratch.

On Christmas day I find out the friend can't make it. Absolutely !!!!ed off as I was getting really excited.

Today - £220 to get car through MOT (not house related I know)
Today - plumber £240 to sort oven hob, install timer and frost stat to boiler and a few other bits n bobs here and there I wanted.

Boiler now has some sort of fault which isn't obvious and no central heating. Plumber will have to return (I paid him is parts).

I'm on a serious roll of bad luck these past few months. Every single, tiny detail that can go wrong - has done. No joke. Sick to the back teeth. I'm not only talking about the house either, work rest and play - the lot.

I can only hope for a decent new year. Everyone says, "it's not that bad / it'll get better / the house is nearly done" yadda yadda yadda but they aren't the ones working, saving, paying and waiting. Feel like my life has been on hold so much recently - I question is it worth it? Of course when I look back in the future I'll probably (hopefully say yes), but it's not as if the house is some kind of masterpiece architecture...far from it! Ugh!

....Merry Christmas eh?

lol that made me crack up, not in a horrible way. but i know just what you mean.... not sure i can say much, but keep your chin up, sometimes its nice to take stock of what you have achieved and done yourself. very hard to forget
what you have accomplished and done in a short space of time.

But been there done that and i agree when its all going wrong its very hard to lift your head up... i'd be peed off aswell if someone let me down like that, feel liek why do you bother... obviosuly a decent bloke and just have to accept that not everyone sees things the same way. fingers crossed for a good new year mate. all the best..

typeractive

Thanks stolt. I'm also a bit worried about my plumber registering my boiler and work with Gas Safe, he seems to be putting it off a lot / forgetting etc etc. I need it doing to gain my building certificate. I have the electric one and my windows and doors. It's becoming stressful. Any advice on that one anyone?

ukmaggie45

Oh Typer, sorry you're having so many problems! Can't help with the Gas Safe stuff I'm afraid. Guess you just have to keep hassling your plumber, but it's a hassle doing it isn't it!

Here's hoping the New Year brings better times and more efficient workmen to you. Hugs from Liverpool. :grouphug:

typeractive

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Oh Typer, sorry you're having so many problems! Can't help with the Gas Safe stuff I'm afraid. Guess you just have to keep hassling your plumber, but it's a hassle doing it isn't it!

Here's hoping the New Year brings better times and more efficient workmen to you. Hugs from Liverpool. :grouphug:

Thanks Maggie - think it's gonna get a lot worse before any better given this mornings events