Buying a little piece of Middle England; Manifesting my way to mortgage free.

debtfreewannabe321

I'm up to I reckon around just over half the ceiling stripped now.  DP did the painting so one coat on everything after the mist coat. We went neutral so did natural hessian on the walls and white on ceiling. I was going to keep it all white for ease and quickness but it was too stark so I went warm neutral instead..it looks nice after the first coat. 

We stopped just after 8, trying to pace ourselves instead of burn out like we always do in diy jobs (remember me up a ladder at nearly midnight on new years eve? Wearing a wallpaper veil 🤣).

We'll get back to it tomorrow. I intend to do the second coat on all the walls and ceiling and I wanthalf the remaining wallpaper off (Sunday will be about getting the rest off and clean up the glue ready for wallpaper again when we've filled all the gaps). DP will be working on the plumbing tomorrow. They are coming in next week to lay the floor and put skirting on and finish electrics already! By next weekend I think they will be totally done! Yay! 

Kitchen and new sofa turn up next week. DP is off for a week on Thursday. A couple more weeks and I think we'll be most of the way there and have normality back to our household 🤩 I am looking towards the end point now to keep me motivated. 

Oh and we got Chinese. We spent more than we should have because I was naughty but we have enough left for lunch tomorrow 🤭 it was so much easier to just crack on and DIY rather than clean up after dinner! 

I hope to be back tomorrow evening with an update of all the above jobs done, and hopefully most of the plumbing work on DP end 😁🤞🏻.

daisy_1571

debtfreewannabe321 said:

Is it worth looking into one of those pass in a week places? Even if it was elsewhere in the country it might be cheaper and quicker to take a holiday cottage or caravan and she/you can stay while she does the course compared to lessons and trying to not get too confident a driver if shes practising for over a year waiting on the test?

Ooo @daisy_1571 imagine if I got a holiday as well as DD passing her test I love this idea the most 🤣

Win win

debtfreewannabe321

Morning! I'm up! 
Caffeeined (that's a word now I'm ignoring the red squiggle) up to the eyeballs and ready to strip wallpaper off the ceiling.
I need to drop dd off so I'm going to go and prep lunch and snacks and dinner for later (quiche, new pots, and green beans nice and quick) and get It all ready to just switch on when hungry. And then drop her and come home and start..... I can do this! (Have knee support on as it's hurting again after two days of being ok 🙈).

Bananabreadyum

Good idea to get all the food ready for the day. But do be careful with that knee!! You need a support to restrict twisting your knee. I hope the rest come off easily 🤞🤞🤞

debtfreewannabe321

DP had the good idea of doing all the messy jobs now so I am doing all the stripping first. Nearly there and the steamer cut out! It doesn't look that big and area on the pic 😬 but it is 4x4m at widest points and it's coming off so slowly in layers, first paint then vinyl top of wallpaper then underlay ugh 😫 hate these jobs so actually glad I am doing it all now. Will sugar soap today too ready for fixing holes and papering asap. Thing is I have to down tools the minute the builders are in so I'm not in the way and doing just evenings and weekends is slow going! 

debtfreewannabe321

We've painted everything in the extension floor to ceiling twice over 😁 I've stopped to put the dinner on and sit down. My god I'm tired. 
DP is finishing off filling some of the areas that were channeled for new electrics. Tomorrow will have to be cleaning the ceiling now and finishing filling some more holes in ceiling and elsewhere. Unless we get a second wind which I doubt. 🤣 I'm already thinking about snacks and bath and movie 🍿 so doubt I'll bother with any more. 

Bananabreadyum

Please stop!! 
Definitely take a bath it will help your knee! 🤞 and a movie sounds good. 

KajiKita

You’re doing incredibly well and sound like you are on track to finish tomorrow which I am guessing is your deadline?

KK

debtfreewannabe321

Bananabreadyum said:

Please stop!! 
Definitely take a bath it will help your knee! 🤞 and a movie sounds good. 

I wanted a bath then saw the state of the bath (had washed all the paint stuff up in it) and opted for a shower and cleaned the bath whilst showering 😂

debtfreewannabe321

KajiKita said:

You’re doing incredibly well and sound like you are on track to finish tomorrow which I am guessing is your deadline?

KK

We did way better than we thought we'd do! The extension is finished from our end once they've done the underlay, under floor heating and laminate they do the skirting and it's hand over time and we can just clean it and move in. 
We've been umming and ahhing over the ceiling in the kitchen. It's original lime plaster and is good in most places so we were going to wallpaper over the top because it was in keeping with the rest of the house - however it's not in keeping with the brand new extension 🤔 so we kind of stilted our progress unsure what to do. We left it and stopped for the day and this morning DP has said let's skim it ourselves and keep it plain like the rest of the room (the extension) so we need to fill the gaps and skim it. We did message the plasterer who said he'd be glad to come back and do more work but I think we've spent enough in all honesty and I have a good technique for skimming now which I'm going to show DP and let him do it 😂.

I was in agony all night and barely slept but I'm going to get up and get my DIY clothes on and go and tidy the ceiling ready for skimming anyway. 
We don't have to be done with all of this by next week  but if we aren't then we will be doing messy jobs over the new laminate which I don't want. So I felt it best to get painting and other messy bits done and dusted (excuse the pun). 

If it's not done we will have to just cover very well. The old kitchen right next to the new kitchen (on the right in the pic I shared) has a dodgy concrete floor with massive holes all over it (for plumbing) so that needs to somehow be covered enough as we won't be finished in there until new kitchen is in- we can't remove old kitchen without a new working one- so we will have to contain the dust somehow...I am actually thinking of putting up some plastic sheets floor to ceiling and having to walk through a gap in them to separate the two areas 😂.