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I know what you mean, it's always been like this and to be honest the house is fairly cheap to heat so I figured it's not worth the effort. I'd have to take the subfloor out of the whole ground floor to make it worth doing and that would mean taking the kitchen out again - nope 😆
I just put the last board down 😀
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I do worry about who had your house previously. At least you can fix Mr and Mrs Bodgit's jobs
I know! Still, I can be pretty confident I've found everything there is to find downstairs and in the loft now so it's just the first floor I have to worry about, if I ever get that far haha.
Forgot to mention I finally connected up the network cable to the garage so I've gotten rid of the last of the powerline adapters now. Everything is running on gigabit ethernet or WiFi, much faster and much more stable so far 😀
bikingdad90
Guru
They're currently in a pile in the living room, but they could easily be in a box on their way somewhere else... drop me a message
Jameshow
Veteran
I owned it!🤣🤣
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Makes my current job look small 
never had curtains downstairs as the lintels above the windows are rock hard and i can easily go through a drill bit after 3-4 holes so we only have blinds.
Decided to put them up to keep the cold out so i installed a wooden plank above the window by drilling holes and plugging them ready for the wood which i no nailed glued to the wall and then screwed into the wall too so its solid .
I then installed the curtail rail holders but the curtain is going to be a good 4 inches in front of the window so it looks like i need a different rail that doesnt sit so far out .
never had curtains downstairs as the lintels above the windows are rock hard and i can easily go through a drill bit after 3-4 holes so we only have blinds.
Decided to put them up to keep the cold out so i installed a wooden plank above the window by drilling holes and plugging them ready for the wood which i no nailed glued to the wall and then screwed into the wall too so its solid .
I then installed the curtail rail holders but the curtain is going to be a good 4 inches in front of the window so it looks like i need a different rail that doesnt sit so far out .
I've been busy this last week, despite spending 3 days out of the country on business. I've had the last few walls in the living room plastered now and have spent many of the last 48 hours prepping and painting.
The downstairs loo is fully painted and the towel rail is refitted and working. The floor tiles have arrived, next job in here is to prep the floor and lay them.
The living room has gone from this...
To this...
Still lots of little jobs to do and a busy week ahead. Tuesday the sofas and table get collected by a local charity that will be re-homing them. Thursday the new carpet gets put down, then on Friday the new sofa arrives 😀
I best get cracking on those little jobs; skirting, more painting, plastering the top of the front window reveal, fixing the floor in part of the living room, installing the base of the under-tv unit... Fun times ahead this week that's for sure haha.
The downstairs loo is fully painted and the towel rail is refitted and working. The floor tiles have arrived, next job in here is to prep the floor and lay them.
The living room has gone from this...
To this...
Still lots of little jobs to do and a busy week ahead. Tuesday the sofas and table get collected by a local charity that will be re-homing them. Thursday the new carpet gets put down, then on Friday the new sofa arrives 😀
I best get cracking on those little jobs; skirting, more painting, plastering the top of the front window reveal, fixing the floor in part of the living room, installing the base of the under-tv unit... Fun times ahead this week that's for sure haha.
John are you widening the patio doors?
Very impressive work rate
I'm not showing the Mrs this, else she will crack the whip far more
My job yesterday was coring out the kitchen floor to allow new water main, took forever nearly 3ft of material to get through. Then there was a mad hurry to get the inside and outside connected so we had water for this weekend.
The local authority had been replacing the water mains, we made an application to replace our incoming 15mm copper to 32mm They provided a quote which we accepted. Only then to find that the contractors were also tasked(no charge to homeowners) with replacing the existing pipework upto the meter also. I asked politely if they would make the new connection to the meter in 32mm, They agreed, so we cracked on and did our bit the other side of the meter. No need to proceed with quoted upgrade. We did it ourselves
Very impressive work rate
I'm not showing the Mrs this, else she will crack the whip far more
My job yesterday was coring out the kitchen floor to allow new water main, took forever nearly 3ft of material to get through. Then there was a mad hurry to get the inside and outside connected so we had water for this weekend.
The local authority had been replacing the water mains, we made an application to replace our incoming 15mm copper to 32mm They provided a quote which we accepted. Only then to find that the contractors were also tasked(no charge to homeowners) with replacing the existing pipework upto the meter also. I asked politely if they would make the new connection to the meter in 32mm, They agreed, so we cracked on and did our bit the other side of the meter. No need to proceed with quoted upgrade. We did it ourselves
Yeah I'm widening the doors 👍 A previous owner had made the opening smaller so the lintel is already correctly sized for the new opening, just need to chop out the brickwork and make good when the door gets replaced along with the other rear facing windows. That's a while off yet as I need to do the bathroom before that can happen, but decided to do the inside now so the new carpet fits the larger opening and I don't have to do any plastering again later..!
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I've missed the John Bissesslelelslelllleslllel DIY thread. Fascinating, informative, humbling.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
the understairs looks great... I'd have never thought of doing that. Top job!
So had the carpet fitters round today as planned... Unfortunately it didnt quite go to plan
I've used Carpet Right since they're just down the road from me and I didnt have much time to go round and get quotes. All went very well with my first visit to the shop, the salesman was knowledgeable and recommended me some ranges for my needs, even steered me away from a more expensive option I was considering. I had taken all the measurements myself and drawn a fairly detailed plan which they used to price it up and after I had accepted the quotation they arranged to come and measure up themselves to confirm the price. When the measuring lady arrived she spent about 40 minutes going round with her tape and putting dimensions in to her tablet before confidently telling me the quote was out by 'a little bit' and that it would actually be an additional £600 on top of the £1700 they had quoted... I calmly explained that I didn't consider a 30% increase 'a little bit' and wanted to discuss this with the shop before I went any further. Cue late evening telephone discussion with original salesman, who had the measurements she'd taken to hand. We went through them one by one as I walked around the living room with my tape measure and found 2 critical dimensions were wrong, which changed where the seam was due to sit and ergo the total amount of carpet required. He thought it would be best, given the errors, to send measuring lady around again to do it again. After her second visit the original price was reinstated and I went ahead.
This morning the unfortunate fitters arrived to fit the carpet. They did all the prep, gripper rods down and new underlay cut and fitted, then removed the carpet from the van and rolled it out. It was a meter short After investigating what had gone wrong it seems they'd somehow used the measuring ladies first set of (incorrect) measurements to cut the carpet in the warehouse so whilst the overall quantity was correct, it was never going to fit unless I accepted a second seam. Which I didn't So they have taken it away again and I'm now waiting to hear when a new piece, hopefully cut to the right size this time, will be available...
On the plus side whilst it was rolled out it did look rather nice
On the down side the sofa is arriving tomorrow morning so when they return to fit the carpet they'll have to work around it
This is what I'm left with for now...
I've used Carpet Right since they're just down the road from me and I didnt have much time to go round and get quotes. All went very well with my first visit to the shop, the salesman was knowledgeable and recommended me some ranges for my needs, even steered me away from a more expensive option I was considering. I had taken all the measurements myself and drawn a fairly detailed plan which they used to price it up and after I had accepted the quotation they arranged to come and measure up themselves to confirm the price. When the measuring lady arrived she spent about 40 minutes going round with her tape and putting dimensions in to her tablet before confidently telling me the quote was out by 'a little bit' and that it would actually be an additional £600 on top of the £1700 they had quoted... I calmly explained that I didn't consider a 30% increase 'a little bit' and wanted to discuss this with the shop before I went any further. Cue late evening telephone discussion with original salesman, who had the measurements she'd taken to hand. We went through them one by one as I walked around the living room with my tape measure and found 2 critical dimensions were wrong, which changed where the seam was due to sit and ergo the total amount of carpet required. He thought it would be best, given the errors, to send measuring lady around again to do it again. After her second visit the original price was reinstated and I went ahead.
This morning the unfortunate fitters arrived to fit the carpet. They did all the prep, gripper rods down and new underlay cut and fitted, then removed the carpet from the van and rolled it out. It was a meter short
After investigating what had gone wrong it seems they'd somehow used the measuring ladies first set of (incorrect) measurements to cut the carpet in the warehouse so whilst the overall quantity was correct, it was never going to fit unless I accepted a second seam. Which I didn't So they have taken it away again and I'm now waiting to hear when a new piece, hopefully cut to the right size this time, will be available...On the plus side whilst it was rolled out it did look rather nice
On the down side the sofa is arriving tomorrow morning so when they return to fit the carpet they'll have to work around it
This is what I'm left with for now...
