vent: work on house

Grimbal

Just need to get this completely self-centred rant off my chest really.....

feeling quite down at the moment, house that we are due to move in on 25th is a building site atm. There is literally no bathroom - and that has been the case for over 2 weeks now whilst the bathroom installer has worked on another project.

We went through a local independent bathroom place which has a good reputation. They only use their approved fitters so we thought it would be as near plain sailing as these things get.

He got off to a great start - all ripped out and re-plastered within a few days. Since then, nothing. I'm starting to panic now.

There's so much else to do - a chimney needs to come out & hall & 2 bedrooms need re plastering, new skirting and coving. And don't get me started on the state the place is in. Re-wiring the place has left it with rubble and filth everywhere.

:(

Kalama

It could be worse Grimbal - you could be pinning your financial future on building an 8 foot wide rabbit hutch on the edge of your property!

In all seriousness - loads can happen between now and the 25th. It'll all come good I'm sure.

This will make you feel better in the meantime - when my parents bought their last house they got my uncle to come and help move them in (me and my brother were 3 and 18 months hence the help). They picked up the keys, trooped round to the house, and my uncle went in first - only for his foot to go completely through the floorboards in the hall.

The old dude who had been living there had lived in the back room (smoking about 300 a day by the colour of the place - they knew this though) and had survived on what appeared to be a diet of ale. This became apparent when they started tackling the jungle of a garden to find hundreds of empty and smashed beer bottles he'd just flung out of the french doors. They also found a complete Anderson shelter which still had gas masks hung on the wall (this was in 1985!). Don't even get me started on the kitchen....

DCFC79

Kalama wrote: »

It could be worse Grimbal - you could be pinning your financial future on building an 8 foot wide rabbit hutch on the edge of your property!

just had to laugh at that,

Kalama

We laughed too. A lot. Especially when we saw the price.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-19471740.html

Abbafan1972

Kalama wrote: »

We laughed too. A lot. Especially when we saw the price.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-19471740.html

Page doesn't exist.

paddyrg

How much cash do you still hold? Or have they had it all already? Cash helps keep people focussed!

Kalama

Thanks Abbafan - fixed now.

Grimbal

Thanks Kalama for the support, it's much appreciated. I am almost losing it at the moment. I'm at my wits end with the bathroom installer, although he does keep promising faithfully that the bathroom will be functional by the 19th. We should've kept a larger retention admittedly, but it's difficult when the bathroom showroom keep gushing about how great a guy he is

At this point, we don't know if we'll have hot water as the boiler hasn't been fired up since last October. It was serviced not long before that,but has remained inactive since then.

We had another contractor start on the chimney removal today & I'm still dumb struck with what's happened. They've really cracked on admittedly - roof tiled over and top part of chimney gone with significant removal of chimney breast in bedroom gone too. However, and this is the bit that gets me everytime:


They've ripped up a lovely wool carpet in the lounge, cut it in two, and used it to protect the driveway from the rubble that was produced.

I just don't get it, I really don't. Ok, the house is currently in bits due to it being rewired & re-plumbed, but why on earth would they do that?

I have to admit to having a bit of a sob when I realised what they've done. The owner of the firm has said that he'll come to an arrangement with us, to which we've said that we're getting new stuff laid and knocking it off the bill!

The_Drama_Llama

Oh Grimbal...poor you. I don't come on here much these days, but I'm very sorry to hear your tale of woe.

Apart frome the carpet thing (!!!!!!?!?!) I would say keep the faith...it's amazing how quickly it can all turn round. We're on week 4 of our house refurb (new kitchen, new bathroom, new boiler, rewire, replacing the staircase, full redec, sanding floors and new carpets) and every week it looks like a different house. I reckon we'll be all finished by August BH weekend...hurrah!

Hope it's all plain sailing from here...make sure you get the idiots to pay for a new carpet!

DL