Diary Mortgage Free Road To Change My Life

Firegirl

What will you do with all your spare time when you finish lucky!

Luckyinlife

mortgage_girl wrote: »

Hi Lucky -I've been reading through your diary and wanted to say well done, you've achieved so much in such a small space of time. If you carry on at that rate I'm sure you'll have the mortgage paid off in no time (or at least have the cash stashed away to pay it off if you wanted to)! :T:T:T

MGx

Thank you MG for taking the time out to read it :]
With what i do its never a fixed income so can very hence the EF is 2-3rd most import think to me other than family lol

I just do my best thats all we can all do :]

Fire
Ill be building a 30m2 garage once the house is done and furnished i hope keep me busy for a few months :T AKA

Luckyinlife

Soo my windows arrived today :] So i now have 2-3 days to get some glossing done

carpenter is fitting velux windows on weds :]
Once the windows are fitted i plan to put some stud walls up and plasterboard
In the mean time i plan to

Gloss door frames x7
Gloss doors x7
Sand and gloss banister this could take a while
Finish painting a few walls extra coats

Once these bits are done its just waiting for the floor then :]

Order oak floor get a date for fitting
order carpet get a date for fitting

Luckyinlife

SO spent the last 2 days painting still another 2 days to go

Wood flooring is picked Solid Oak Lacquered Flooring inc thermal barrier
Its a light floor price is around £1100 fitted this is around £38 m2 show price is 45 m2 squared waiting to see if the fitter can get it cheaper for me
This is a pic its a slightly darker in person

This doesnt look like it does in person really but i like putting pics up haha

Carpet is picked and priced up at £1600 as need 50m2 of it for stairs landing and 3 roooms and underlay included this is around £20-23 m2


I could get a cheaper carpet but even that is £1200 so id rather go for a quality one that will last twice as long

So it looks like the flooring is going to cost around £2600 for everything

This is £600 more than i never thought carpet would be so much i guess its the pure area i need to cover

please tell me you guys have spent the same lol

edinburgher

£38? Jeez! :eek:

Does solid wood flooring work like laminate, only posher?

Luckyinlife

edinburgher wrote: »

£38? Jeez! :eek:

Does solid wood flooring work like laminate, only posher?

Ya i guess it does im having solid wood as its very similar priced to engineered wood so for a few £ extra may as well it should last a very long time indeed outlast me probably

Some laminates are not far off that price these days

wood feels a lot better and is a lot more random in terms of pattern than laminates iv seen felt

oak


Engineered


Laminate


:T

MFWKid

Looks amazing LIL. We've got laminate at the moment and it looks good, but I always think this stuff looks much better, should last a good while longer too.

Luckyinlife

MFWKid wrote: »

Looks amazing LIL. We've got laminate at the moment and it looks good, but I always think this stuff looks much better, should last a good while longer too.

Thank you MFW :] I know what you mean defiantly worth the extra money

Quick update today
Iv been undercoating everything is ready for a bit of sanding and glossing now

Loft windows are in so this is ready for insulation and plaster boarding i need to order this tomorrow more expense but needs to be done before the floors go down

Also spoke to solicitor just waiting for paper work to arrive this week now :beer:

Luckyinlife

Heres a picture of my attic as it stands today after the 2 windows put in and floor layed needs insulation on roof and small walls built now and plaster boared and plastered in the next 2 weeks
I dont know why its on its side but you get the idea hehe

Firegirl

The flooring will look good and last so that's the main thing!!! I still can't believe how much you've done since we joined this board!!!