House fixy-uppy shit

[lifetime fan]

I'm currently led flat out enjoying my new corner sofa with the dog and a beer.

[Champ]

I'm currently led flat out enjoying my new corner sofa with the dog and a beer.

 

What is this word?

 

Lets see this rental room, then

[chrisbonnie]

Dear? Dear? Consider yourself metaphorically punched.

 

And on the Satinwood I hear you but the gloss works with the style of the house

So the rest of the house is a tribute to the 1980's then I presume? :P

[Champ]

So the rest of the house is a tribute to the 1980's then I presume? :P

We need all the help we can get to exploit the thin sunlight in these parts

[chrisbonnie]

We need all the help we can get to exploit the thin sunlight in these parts

No need to justify yourself champ.

 

If you saw the state of my house at the minute you'd have a field day.

 

I'll actually have to do a few pics. Just got new doors fitted as the old ones were quite frankly an abomination! I don't know how I managed looking at them for 3 years .

 

[lifetime fan]

Got two purple ones myself. Stole one from an evicted neighbour a. Double Scouse me

Brilliant.

[lifetime fan]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally get the place finished yesterday and I'm moving out today. Bit sad I never got to actually live in it completed.

 

 

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Where did you get the coffee table?

[lifetime fan]

Where did you get the coffee table?

£30 in Aldi believe it or not.

 

It's solid as fuck, weighs a tonne and is my greatest ever bargain.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

That is a right bargain!

[stringvest]

Fucking hell that is a bargain. Didnt know they did furniture. Im getting on their website

[lifetime fan]

Fucking hell that is a bargain. Didnt know they did furniture. Im getting on their website

Was about 6 years ago mate, you may struggle sorry.

 

It's lush though.

[Champ]

So a solid as fuck coffee table can still be described as 'lush'? Who knew

[stringvest]

Bollocks.  Back to Heal's then.

[Liverpool lad]

Just popping on to wish everyone embroiled in housework the best of luck

 

I am just getting ready to start on my next part of the house - the hall way which shouldn't be such a big job, then getting ready to do the bathroom or kitchen which probably will be. Could be 18 months until I do the bathroom

 

Couple of lessons learned from my last course of home improvement, ignore family and friends who offer their help then stay elusive for weeks until you end up paying for somebody to do it anyway. Especially when they offer to do a task which needs to be completed before you do the next stage, therefore holding the entire job up.  I had everything come to standstill over plastering that would have cost me about £200 to have done but somebody I know was quite insistent that they wanted to help, sat on it for a few weeks then passed me it back with no explanation.

 

Also people who come to your house and stay stuff like 'I would have done it this way' over the most trivial of things like piping that is hidden from view anyway are quickly shown the door.

 

Don't listen to people who obviously don't have a fucking clue what they are on about. It just wastes your time

 

I had damp course done, so I was given a price by a firm, got them to draw out what they wanted to do and I then ran it past a surveyor I know who said he was happy with the problem and the course of corrective action.  However, mention this to anyone else and they automatically became an expert on damp course because they have seen a couple of property shows and know somebody who had it a while ago.  As a rule, if I am facing a problem that I cannot fix myself, I look in my phone for somebody I know who specialises in that field and then seek their advice, when my dog had skin tags I phoned Tossed and Blown, car needs a cam belt I seen the lad over the road, etc.

 

In a nutshell, it is a fucking nightmare doing a house up but I think it gets a bit easier.

 

Good luck all

[Champ]

Just popping on to wish everyone embroiled in housework the best of luck

 

I am just getting ready to start on my next part of the house - the hall way which shouldn't be such a big job, then getting ready to do the bathroom or kitchen which probably will be. Could be 18 months until I do the bathroom

 

Couple of lessons learned from my last course of home improvement, ignore family and friends who offer their help then stay elusive for weeks until you end up paying for somebody to do it anyway. Especially when they offer to do a task which needs to be completed before you do the next stage, therefore holding the entire job up.  I had everything come to standstill over plastering that would have cost me about £200 to have done but somebody I know was quite insistent that they wanted to help, sat on it for a few weeks then passed me it back with no explanation.

 

Also people who come to your house and stay stuff like 'I would have done it this way' over the most trivial of things like piping that is hidden from view anyway are quickly shown the door.

 

Don't listen to people who obviously don't have a fucking clue what they are on about. It just wastes your time

 

I had damp course done, so I was given a price by a firm, got them to draw out what they wanted to do and I then ran it past a surveyor I know who said he was happy with the problem and the course of corrective action.  However, mention this to anyone else and they automatically became an expert on damp course because they have seen a couple of property shows and know somebody who had it a while ago.  As a rule, if I am facing a problem that I cannot fix myself, I look in my phone for somebody I know who specialises in that field and then seek their advice, when my dog had skin tags I phoned Tossed and Blown, car needs a cam belt I seen the lad over the road, etc.

 

In a nutshell, it is a fucking nightmare doing a house up but I think it gets a bit easier.

 

Good luck all

 

Does cleaning the shower count? Fucking hate doing jobs that you can never restore back to the original.

 

On a larger scale I am currently seeking estimates for new fencing in the back. Not exciting but necessary for privacy and security.

But on a far more exciting note, I think I may have won Mr C over into upgrading the kitchen later in the year. He says he knew it wasnt worth disagreeing about. Bollocks. It was like pushing an open door

[Section_31]

Just bought a house and it needs a new bathroom and kitchen, what are people's thoughts about the best way to go about it? At the moment I'm thinking just go to Rapid and say 'look I'm giving you two jobs here instead of one, knock some money off or I'll go to Pimpy Paul's Bathroom Kingdom in Maghull.'

[Liverpool lad]

Just bought a house and it needs a new bathroom and kitchen, what are people's thoughts about the best way to go about it? At the moment I'm thinking just go to Rapid and say 'look I'm giving you two jobs here instead of one, knock some money off or I'll go to Pimpy Paul's Bathroom Kingdom in Maghull.'

 

 

You got any trustworthy mates in the trade, go and see them mate.

[Champ]

You got any trustworthy mates in the trade, go and see them mate.

 

Always get recommendations from people you trust.

I'd always go to an independent tradesperson before a big company and if you're lucky they'll get what you need at trade.

Good people like that are like gold. Keep them sweet

[Total Longo]

I spent yesterday afternoon mainly putting new blinds up, fixing a hole in the garden fence and tiling the bog floor.

 

I'm boss.

[Section_31]

You got any trustworthy mates in the trade, go and see them mate.

Nah, I don't move in those circles, most of my mates still play with Transformers.

[Champ]

Nah, I don't move in those circles, most of my mates still play with Transformers.

 

Ask around. Someone will know someone who's had similar work done

[Furmedge]

I'm thinking of getting an extension to the side of the house. Not sure if I want to go two storeys yet or just extend the ground floor. Or just whack the money on a deposit on another house instead. Can't be arsed with the disruption of building an extension.

[Nunavut Patrick]

It was so much easier when we lived in skin tents or caves, shit outside and only moved when the sabre tooth tigers became to annoying.

[Tyler Durden]

I'm thinking of getting an extension to the side of the house. Not sure if I want to go two storeys yet or just extend the ground floor. Or just whack the money on a deposit on another house instead. Can't be arsed with the disruption of building an extension.

I've just done a single story rear extension with a knock through, making a massive kitchen last year. Done most work myself with exception of elec, brickwork and plastering (I'm a joiner by trade), I love it, only just finished doing the house top to bottom after buying it less then 3 years ago. I'm just about to do some sketches for the back garden now as that's my next job, decking flagging, building a solid shed and turfing