My house renovation
Discussion
LocoBlade said:
Still ploughing on with the refurb, well done. Are you hoping to have the whole lot finished fairly soon?
Two out of three bathroom should be fitted within the next couple of weeks. Waiting for carpet fitters quote to come back and I think they could be done before Christmas. That’ll leave a fair bit of decorating to do over Christmas then one more bathroom and a custom wardrobe. Then dare I say it, that’s about it. Edited by LocoBlade on Tuesday 23 November 23:47
Good going, I sometimes wish we'd gone for something that didnt need as much work or we'd been a bit more conservative with the purchase so we had more resources to get everything completed in that kind of timeframe. We're also now a year in to ours and it feels like a never ending journey doing the majority of it DIY, we've only fully completed the kitchen and two bedrooms, the hall, study and downstairs loo are almost there as well now but still all 3 bathrooms/ensuites to do plus the living room and two more bedrooms need doing. Then there's the garden 
LocoBlade said:
Good going, I sometimes wish we'd gone for something that didnt need as much work or we'd been a bit more conservative with the purchase so we had more resources to get everything completed in that kind of timeframe. We're also now a year in to ours and it feels like a never ending journey doing the majority of it DIY, we've only fully completed the kitchen and two bedrooms, the hall, study and downstairs loo are almost there as well now but still all 3 bathrooms/ensuites to do plus the living room and two more bedrooms need doing. Then there's the garden
I will admit I'm very lucky that I never went to uni so have no student debt, and have basically spent my entire working career saving money pretty well, so we have been able to pay professionals to do a lot of the major work. At the same time my best friends down the road are also renovating (nowhere near to this scale though, mostly decorating and a new kitchen) but they're doing 99% of it themselves/family helping. It does make me feel a bit guilty when I hear that he's spent the whole weekend tiling the kitchen for example, whereas 'all' my wife and I did ourselves was the destruction and some decorating. So I do feel your pain, DIY clearly takes forever, but then I guess we'd never have dreamt of buying this place if I didn't know we did have money to put into getting pros in to do the big bits. But even for us it has felt never ending, the amount of times we've had to move bedrooms, still no carpets in the bedrooms, one working loo and all that.......it does make it hard to believe within the next 3 weeks or so suddenly all of that might be over.
Burwood said:
Great work there UTH-did you do the grafting yourself?Bravo 
BTW-what is the flooring-real Oak?
Me and the wife did all the ripping out/smashing walls and so on. Anything that was actually skilled work was beyond us though, so we can't take any credit for the good looking bits. BTW-what is the flooring-real Oak?
The flooring is: https://en.quick-step.com/en-sg/laminate/impressiv...
UTH said:
Burwood said:
Great work there UTH-did you do the grafting yourself?Bravo
BTW-what is the flooring-real Oak?
Me and the wife did all the ripping out/smashing walls and so on. Anything that was actually skilled work was beyond us though, so we can't take any credit for the good looking bits. BTW-what is the flooring-real Oak?
The flooring is: https://en.quick-step.com/en-sg/laminate/impressiv...
Following your progress with interest.
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