An in-between phase

PennysIntoPounds

@KajiKita It seems like someone who is not us has majorly f*cked up somewhere along the line so its another loooong headf*ck trying to work out who and where. Architect? Surveyor? Council? Builder? Building Controller? This makes Gordian knot look like child's play. And my sword has been confiscated.

Thanks all for your support. Feeling utterly f*cked right now, we are in so much debt and it just keeps getting fuel added to the fire. BIL and SIL are meant to be moving in in just over a week! So priority is to get everything as sorted as possible so they and their kid have an actual home. Builder can go whistle for his only-in-his-own-head sign off dates for the whole build, though I would rather not p*ss off the person entrusted with our actual home

I am exhausted and skint and fuming and skint and worried and skint

KajiKita

I have no useful suggestions so am just sending hugs of sympathy and support … x

KK

Rhyddid2026

Eurgh! Just…… eurgh! 😞

beanielou

I wish there was something I could do to help. 🤗

PennysIntoPounds

Thanks for the continued sympathy. What a sh*tshow.

Though I did make a banging cannelloni with ginger and saffron for dinner so swings and roundabouts innit

jwil

So sorry to hear this, what a palaver

KajiKita

Another thought, now that I have slept and my brain is working a bit better ….

Hopefully once BiL et al are in, and can start settling in, the pressure will drop for all of you including the builder, so everyone will have a bit more mental space for wrestling radiators, shower screens and wandering partitions…. Here’s hoping! 🤞

KK

Watty1

Just caught up and a thought occurred to me - can "someone" prove to you why you need the partition and fire door on the property? The reason I put this is that in my distant past a building control chap told me that the step I had had built into my house was not acceptable because a wheelchair could not use it.

Now I am all for making things accessible but if that was an issue then the wheelchair would have gone up the ramp he was insisting on and promptly got stuck because the lobby was too small to turn a wheelchair around in and none of the property doors were wide enough for a wheelchair so his comments were frankly ridiculous

He said he would not be able to sign the work off without and I needed to rethink the whole front of the property so there would be a gradual slope etc. When challenged and asked for the evidence of this requirement and with the approved plans waved under his nose he backed down.

Please check your requirements - I know it is a faff but it is better than spending £1000s on something - and don't trust the blighters in hard hats!

Rant over - on another matter - I want glow in the dark strips mentioned a few pages back. I have no idea where I will use them but I do WANT them.

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PennysIntoPounds

Thanks everyone. Discussions are underway, fingers crossed 🤞

WoB and TCB money Aim £1112.45 Got £352.45

Spec work

Usuals

Build admin

Half wussy situps

Carpet walk

Survey

PennysIntoPounds

Have entered lots of competitions and taken a lot of pics for vinted. And added up my income for tax return because I suddenly got the fear invigilating on top of freelance work and surveys was going to take me over the personal allowance limit even though chance would be a fine thing 😂 I guess it felt like a way of wresting back some small slither of control over the insanity of the build