Well, there were lots of us up at the house today. Myself, Smee, Ellie, Diane, Nicola, Shaun, Sophia and Isabel. I'm sure it would have been more productive to have left the kids at home but they did have fun hopping through the stud walls and generaly getting too close to the gaping hole in the side of the house where a 'naily and gnarly' fate awaits in the pile of debris.
We stripped 80% of the wallpaper off the walls to allow the plasterer to get on with plastering, not decorating! Speaking of which the plasterer has started to put the boards up and the downstairs toilet, utility, kitchen and porch area and mostly done. We now finally have some new rooms, hoorah! They all still need plastering of course but once the boards are up (including insulation) we will really see a big difference.
Hopefully this week there will be a delivery from TP (blocks, lintels, plaster, bead and a few other bits and pieces), the damp proof plasterer will start, our plasterer will really get going and the two doorways that we don't want will be bricked up. Add to that the bricks that need to be put around the window apertures and we have a busy, productive and costly week!
Yesterday I went to Ikea at around 10pm to take advantage of their '21st birthday in the UK ' offer which was a 21% discount on everything, including the kitchen we wanted.
If you look below you will see a post describing our glee at finding the Ikea kitchen at a very reasonable price a month or so ago. I was ultra delighted to discover the 21% offer a few weeks ago on the internet in a money saving forum and waited until yesterday to cash in. All in all we spent about £2500 on a £3200 kitchen that we already thought was excellent value! It was a bit of a nightmare at Ikea, I have never seen so many cars in the car park, especially at 10pm. But, an hour and a half later I was all done and I even managed to get soem stuff for Nicola too.
Right, that's all for now, more photos to be added next week I hope.
Congrats to the Waltons who just announced the arrival of Evie Grace.
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