15months to debt free - I hope

beanielou

How are you? Missing your posts.

ladyholly

Hello all

Sorry been awol for a while. We are in the middle of the new kitchen at last. It has been rather a trial to say the least. It started well but once the tiles were of the kitchen wall we found the electrics were awful and dangerous. The last owner of the house was a diy enthusiast and had thoroughly messed everything up. (This is not the first time we have suffered from his incompetence). The kitchen has basically been rewired. The poor electrician had a fit when he saw the state of them and spent the day muttering. The units yet are in albeit with no doors as well as the sink and the space for the hob has been cut out although it cant be connected until the electrician returns. I am having a built in oven as I was having trouble getting down to clean my free standing cooker. I have also bought a new bigger fridge. Hopefully the fitter will be finished tomorrow and then we are waiting for the electrician to connect everything. The tiler is comming on the 24th and then there is just the flooring so everything should be finished by the end of the month. The whole kitchen will be tiled for ease of cleaning and I hope I have organised things to be as practical as possible for me.

Starting next week there will a new canopy over the front door (the old one is in danger of falling down) and the garage wall will be re pointed as there is water coming through the walls and Mr LH is worrying about his sports car.

Once the kitchen is done I will get blinds for the conservatory. We havent had any since the new one was put in. It should help with regulating the temperature in there.

After that will be windows and the patio outside. I think we will have a little break though as Mr LH has found having people in the house very stressful.

Meals at the moment are hit and miss as we are making full use of ready meals (yuk) and although I have the microwave in the lounge along with the kettle the caravan cooker ha been very useful. 2 burners and a grill but being in 2 places makes it more complicated. I will be glad when I can use the kitchen. My joints are suffering from constantly getting in and out of the caravan and up the step into the house.

Finally apologies for spelling and grammar errors but I am just writing this quickly before Mr LH gets up and takes over the computer.

I will try to get back later this evening but clearing up from dinner is taking a long time at the moment.

jwil

Lovely to hear from you. Glad you are ok. Great that the kitchen is being done even if it's stressful, hopefully it will be a massive improvement in the end.

daisy_1571

As jwil says, lovely to hear from you and with such exciting news. Sounds like its been a good move getting kitchen done, although it caused more work you now know its more up to date wiring will be future proof for the next years. Its really hard doing without a kitchen but that's great you have had the caravan. Must be like being on holiday every night eating out there 😆

sounds like you have a sensible plan for the next phases of work, once you get them done and your house is back to being yours again you will be well placed to enjoy the summer.

Once you get the kitchen finished will mr lh perhaps be away in the caravan for his festivals or activities? If not the perhaps its worth while booking a few nights in a local hotel, cabin, static caravan or bnb for you both so you get a break from having to deal with straightening the place up every night after workies have been in. Being able to lock up, leaving the mess and go to a lovely clean working house each evening would be lovely. Take the costs of it as if it was just the cost of getting the work done. In fact look now for a last minute booking so you have a working kitchen till yours is finished. Save your strength for the things that matter, like sorting your items into the new kitchen.

Well done getting things picked and workies booked etc, you'll definitely need a holiday after all that, its exhausting making all these decisions.

Daisy xxxx

beanielou

Great to hear from you. Glad kitchen is progressing and that there are things in it that are going to be helpful for you.

OpalGirl

Lovely to hear from you. You are making great progress and your plans sound very well thought out. The previous owner of your house with his dodgy diy sounds like he was related to the previous owner of @foxgloves house!

badmemory

When I first bought this house & was decorating through, every time we went near a plug socket the power to it went & to every further socket along. Eventually my electrician gave up & one evening brought his girlfriend along sat her down with me (& coffee) & sorted every plug in the house. All the ones he hadn't already done needed doing because not one of them had the wires screwed in. Scary when you think about it.

Sun_Addict

Glad all is well and that you're getting things done to the house. It's disrupting having workmen around but needs must and it will be so worth it when it's done.

satchmo1

Glad the electrician is renewing the electrics, you can't take chances with that! We replaced our cooker 18 months ago, and a "fault" display came on last month. AEG promptly sent someone to check what repair was needed, and last week an electrician came to change the part. Only to discover that the fault had occurred because a wire hadn't been jointed correctly and had been arc-ing intermittently ever since - we could have been burnt to a crisp at any time during the last 18 months! The wall had several blackened spots where the wire had touched.

badmemory

It is worrying how much can go wrong that even we would know was wrong & just seems to slip through passed people whose job it is supposed to be.