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Cheery's country living adventure
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Hope it's nice and straightforward for her. It's very unpleasant - both my sister and my dad (in that order - made for an interesting medical 'history' for my dad!) have had their gallbladders removed - but hopefully she can make a full recovery.Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway6 -
Thanks all. I've just sent her a picture of a chicken digging up some potatoes 😂 she did request chicken pictures!
Plasterer has been here on his own today, definitely could have plastered quicker myself. Apparently he's here tomorrow, then disappearing to do another job for the rest of this week and the whole of next week! I have mixed feelings about this - definitely ready for it all to be over soon, but actually, a bit of a break without having people in will be nice - we're into week 7 now 🙄
Had a couple of invoices from the builder. One for materials, to be paid directly to the builder merchants, and another from the woman he works with, so I assume that means she's set up as self employed.
Hoping each of the individual traders isn't going to invoice separately 😮 I mean, I don't mind paying separately, it's just I've now had about £10k worth of invoices from him, so if that doesn't include the plasterer, plumber or electrician, things are going to be worse than I thought! 😮 will pay these tomorrow and check...
Thinking about it, that would mean he's charged JUST his time at about £6k for just over a month which seems a little unlikely 😂 (or if it's not, then clearly I'm in the wrong trade!)
Nowt else to report I don't think. Oven is due to arrive tomorrow morning, must clear a space in the garage, and the farmer has unexpectedly stuck some cows back in our fields - must go and move the tent!9 -
Eek, hope you get the bills sorted out and don't have to pay the builder £6K! Pity/frustrating about the plasterer - while the break might be nice, I'm sure it all being over would be nicer. 🙄 And rude to be prioritising someone else's job over yours too. I never understand how that works with trades though.Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway7 -
Me neither Vix. Although in this case I think he's actually going BACK to finish something that we got prioritised over 😂 so I probably can't complain too much!7
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Oh fair enough! Still a bit annoying though.Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway7 -
Wow reading the last pages of your diary I have learnt to buy a kitchen with a granite worktop already or to never buy granite, what a faff. A good friend who sadly lives too far away is a builder and he often makes as much if not more money in markups on building supplies than he does in labour but this granite story of no pricing is wild. At least a price per m2 would be a start with no holes
If I do buy a fixer upper my plan is to hire a quantity surveyor for a one off to list and plan the job, suppliers and specialists and what I can best batch from different contractors and then I will project manage it myself as I do PM professionally .. having read your kitchen diaries though I may start looking at flats where there is nothing to doDON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff. Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
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Ha - doesn't surprise me about the mark ups on the building supplies! Although in this case they've asked me to pay the supplier directly so I'm not sure what's going on there (trying to stay under the VAT turnover threshold possibly). I imagine there's still a mark up of some kind.
Anyway, I asked for an estimation of extra costs so far, and he's totted it up to £4k. Which is great, because I'd totted it up to about £9k 😂😂 I'll do a proper comparison later tonight to see where the differences are out of interest. If it stays like that, we might just get the whole lot in under £30k which is perfect
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That's good news Cheery! Quite a relief I imagine!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway9 -
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