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phoebe1989seb wrote: »......... after 18 months I am longing for it to be finished now
Sorry to hack your post about, but 18 months:eek::eek:..........
..........thank goodness I've only got a tiny bungalow. Should be done in 6 months. (I hope!!) :snow_grin"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow........":snow_grin0 -
You can live in the house while they're rewiring and skimming. It's not that bad. I've lived with far worse with a houseful of young kids and we all survived. And it's character-forming - no, really, it is! You just have to look on it as life experience and a bit of an adventure.0
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Sorry to hack your post about, but 18 months:eek::eek:..........
..........thank goodness I've only got a tiny bungalow. Should be done in 6 months. (I hope!!)
Yep, it's a pretty big project - although not the largest we've taken on. We had no hot water or heating for five months (from April to September) as the boiler had to be removed whilst the extension was built and that dragged on 'cos of the rubbish weather this summer.
Our house had no electric lights downstairs when we bought last year as well as no plaster on any of the walls (stripped to reveal bare stone by previous owner) nor a proper functioning kitchen. It's heaven now to have lighting, a decent bathroom and proper kitchen - whoop whoop!
Hopefully another year will see all the work done - even though we've done a lot of it ourselves, we've had major builder-overload this year and want a break from trades people for a while, LOL!
Have to agree with several other posters and reiterate what I said earlier, that living on a building site is definitely not for everyone, but we've done it plenty of times and lived to tell the tale......what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
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