Work begins on the house we don't own yet!

I got a call from John Price, the guy who owns all the property at Cantlop Grove yesterday. He's digging some footings for the barn and needed to make some access for the concrete pour. We discussed a few things but the long and the short of it is that he's 'diggered down' to the sub base where we want our drive, laid some stone and flattened it.

The top soil is ready and waiting to be spread back out to extend the front garden out to the new fence line and the drive looks pretty good. The work doesn't come free though, I have to get him a laser distance meter from work worth about £175. So, here it is, the first paid for job on the site and we haven't even exchanged contracts yet, although that will be early next week!




We went to Wickes and another kitchen shop today. Got some more ideas and another quote. We'll probably go to Wickes for a killer deal, unless we get an amazing discout for the kit from Howdens, suppliers to MFI.

We've now got two plumbers and an electrician going on Tuesday for quote purposes and one of the plumbers is confident of being much cheaper than the one quote we already have. Here's hoping.


We haven't put a picture of the house up here yet so here it is...