My 6 week house referb thread

[sidekickdmr]

Ganglandboss said:

Interesting cable route!

Yeh the last guy loved a bit of DIY, really terrible DIY.

The spark spent half his time rectifying it all

And the toilet was not only left like that, it was like it for a month before they moved out!

[sidekickdmr]

Ordered the kitchen last night, a wren kitchen, gloss white, all built in bosche appliances and a black granite worktop. Gonna be getting blood red glass splash backs too! (Pretty excited about the kitchen to be honest.

Should look like this



And these are our designs





Also purchased all of the bathroom suites and 55 sq meters of grey porcelain tiles for kitchen, hall, WC and bathroom (dark slate for floor light grey for all the walls)

[benters]

nice kitchen, good luck with the re-furb

[sidekickdmr]

Still on schedule!

The bathrooms and tiles were delivered today along with a load I AV goodies (hdmi faceplates and cat 6 cables)

Plasterers have been working hard, my labourer sent me these today





I'm on site tomorrow doing some DIY bits and bobs (my main tool will be a pen and paper)

[carreauchompeur]

Looking great!

[NewNameNeeded]

Love threads like his so thanks for taking he time to add it. Great work so far. Interested to know approx cost of kitchen if you don't mind sharing.

[sidekickdmr]

Thanks guys!

Kitchen came in at 11k after some serious haggling.

That's quartz worktops, bosche appliances, 18mm cabinets, plastic coated gloss white doors (not foil like most gloss) etc

[NewNameNeeded]

Thanks

[matc]

Good job so far, looking forward to seeing the end result!

[VX Foxy]

Good work

[Blue Oval84]

Looking forward to watching this progress

[samrr]

Wow what a project mate! Good luck!

[nightwalker]

Great work so far, I'm going to look at a few places today with the prospect of gutting and modernising.

Only drawback for me is the CSL will be going to fund the project.

[Mobile Chicane]

Dear God - that loo

However, I think the 'facility' at Lakeside Engineering (a legend in the Lotus-owning community) just edges it.

[DocArbathnot]

Mobile Chicane said:

Dear God - that loo

However, I think the 'facility' at Lakeside Engineering (a legend in the Lotus-owning community) just edges it.

Oh I don't know I've used far worse, could have a go at the "Train Spotting" thing in that one

[Zingari]

What's the dimensions of the kitchen?

That crapper - looks like the tenants did a flock of sparrows special as a parting shot

[KTF]

Have seen similar work toilets in my time but to live with one in that condition is something else.

Makes no odds if the first thing you do when you get the keys is take a sledge to everything but makes you wonder about the people who lived there before...

[garycat]

We use Wren and were very happy with them, but appliances, handles, sinks etc were much cheaper elsewhere.

E.g. These handles were about £6 each from Wren and we needed 20.
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Ironmongery/Handle...

[sidekickdmr]

garycat said:

We use Wren and were very happy with them, but appliances, handles, sinks etc were much cheaper elsewhere.

E.g. These handles were about £6 each from Wren and we needed 20.
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Ironmongery/Handle...

I do agree and I did a hell of a lot of research into different options

We originally decided it was cheaper to get cabinets from ikea and sourse our own appliances/worktop

This would have cost us approx £9500 all in

Then we thought for the ease and peace of mind of getting it all done by one company, all designed, supplied, delivered and installed for £1500 more its a worthwhile investment.

[sidekickdmr]

I have been informed that the plastering should be finished today, completely.

So just plumbing, kitchen, 2nd fit electrics, flooring and decorating to go!