#64

Oh okay. I wasn’t sure if I’d missed something.

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#65

Also, I should probably clear the balcony…

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#66

Someone’s putting an early marker down for godfather.

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#69

I like those french windows/doors, a lot.

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#70

Looooads to do.

Two bathrooms to refit.
Decking to rip out and replace.
Garden to sort.
Kitchen floor and finish the walls.
Pointing needs doing.
Hallway floor.

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#71

This year is shaping up exactly like last year:

  • clear out the loft (this year it’s the front loft, last year it was the rear), re-insulate it, and board it out.
  • get a cold/chesty cough over Christmas that postpones the start of this job.
  • have the task drag on into February.

Once the loft is done, we can then carpet the stairs/landing and box up and store bits across the house, sort through our prints/pictures and hang them, and get the final bits of furniture that we want.

The next big task is to finish off the garage with a roof. I should have done this already, but I need to track down builders who are prepared to do green roofs.

We’ve abandoned the idea of getting solar panels, I think. Unless we can get a better deal/tariff arrangement, I don’t think it makes financial sense and restricts what we might do to the loft in future.

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#72

Aye, it’ll be really nice once it’s all cleared up and has a proper use, the doors themselves are a bit irksome in that they open inwards over the only spot where the TV can realistically go so if it was affordable we might get sliders instead but that’s very low down the list.

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#74

Or buy some curtains.

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#76

(we do also need to do that tbf)

#77

Sedum. It’ll be an extensive, rather than intensive type.

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#79

Next week or two

  • Get rid of dining table and chairs that came with the flat
  • Buy new, smaller, extendable table and stackable chairs for the rare occasion we have people round/don’t have dinner on the sofa

Before autumn

  • Get the main bathroom done so we can actually shower in it

Whenever

  • Put some stuff on the walls
#80

Rockdoor that shit

#81

Need to regrout the shower in the upstairs bathroom in the hope that the leak is down to that and not some dodgy plumbing. Was supposed to do it early December. New ETA is before 2022.

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#82

Yeah, I want to do the same to our flat roof, but that’s got a good 5-10 years left in it yet.

If I find someone, I’ll let you know.

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#83

We need to do our kitchen and our bedroom.

Bedroom should be early this year then kitchen in the summer.
Bedroom is just stripping the wallpaper off (we’ve painted over it too many times), repaint skirting boards, new paper, paint that white with a yellow/mustard feature wall, get rid of wardrobe and replace with nice chest of drawers, put some pictures up - easy really.
Kitchen is a bigger job but not massive as nothing is moving so really just new cupboards, worktops and tiles and lighting.

I’m going to get bf to put my pictures up on the wall in the living room so that this room is now complete.

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#84

Just been out to Screwfix. Got some shelves to turn the cupboard under the stairs into a pantry of sorts and some racking for the garage.

Going out tomorrow to sort out a new TV bench and a wall cabinet thing to hide the holes where the TV bracket is.

Jobs lined up:
Paint the hall, stairs and landing and new carpet for stairs and landing.
Sort the garden out - Extend/redo the patio; rip some bushes and trees out; paint fence; possibly a bit of returfing.

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#86

The kitchen and decking for sure. Hopefully the bathrooms, but that’s money-dependent.

GF is on sabbatical until August, which means she can run things and be around for builders etc. Gonna be a lot of disruption though.

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#87

Most pressing
Sort the grass in the back garden out. Either dig up the turf, clear all the crap that was left under there, and turf it again, or just rethink it. Maybe turf half, use that garden gravel on the other or something.

Other stuff
Get a new sofa. Our one is old and knackered but might hold off 'til son is older as it is fine for him and his dickhead mates to ruin the current one. Slightly worried that new layout downstairs might restrict choices.
Sell/bin all the prints that I’ve run out of space for.
Sort out the storage in the shed. Just got piles of plastic crates and it’s a nightmare finding anything.

Longer term
Think about moving my son into a different room and turning his room into a gaming/film watching space. A cotch as the kids say.

#88

Getting rid of decking is such a ball ache. I got a guy in to do it for me in the end. Decking is a ball ache full stop actually.

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#90

Ours had been fitted with those Robertson screws which caused me loads of grief, so just took a crowbar to it. Filled the boot of the car after having removed not all that much of it and just couldn’t be arsed doing the rest. Which is how 50% of my DIY adventures play out.

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