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[quote][i]Originally posted by Graham88[/i] Always been fun watching other peoples threads so thought I'd post my own. 2 bed semi in Kent. Sale took far longer than it should have done but it was still quite fast at roughly 6 months to go through. Rightmove pics [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/E3E316D8-97FF-4694-8D48-3C7958584148.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/4C3A100B-F7EE-4DDB-B02A-684E5DF7AF5E.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/0F774465-109C-47DF-A887-4908DD4D9586.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/AFEF0337-CB4B-437E-AB75-CE2EBB059C1E.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/469AAAAC-01A8-4682-A2F9-C8653FB87A93.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/2C449212-A6BB-41CB-91BE-D646A38D167E.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/2B539134-6F17-4E21-9E93-2CD567B96AB2.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/3A5AD3C5-232B-496B-8328-82A84A69BF7A.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/DB284421-700C-4959-A12B-05AA03D19AB8.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/A29020A0-10AF-4E9E-93AF-4FDEEE2A72BF.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/B1884114-E60C-4EF6-B59D-1F5DD4139E3C.png[/IMG] So all looked good and having been recently decorated just before it was put up for sale we thought that was that, buy it move in, enjoy :) Until we started to uncover the many DIY madness bits the previous owners had done… Fridge was advertised as integrated, what that meant was a freestanding fridge was put into a cupboard and the door was screwed to the front using bent brackets and more bent brackets 'fixed' it to the cupboard. It was so well made the door fell off the day we moved in :face palm: Work tops loose etc you get the idea. We decided to get a kitchen plan drawn up and get an idea of cost of a new one. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/79B2CD51-AB3B-4984-B216-AB69C9160E1C.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/5F7946EB-A2A0-4BB4-BF0A-B85A95EC581A.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/1CB306FD-F7CA-43AF-8E63-54379A0BB045.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/EFBD1BEC-0E5D-405E-B9B0-50E8B4EBDE3D.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/64D31C9B-0204-4292-B77D-C21839FB67B0.jpg[/IMG] This was coming in a lot more expensive than we thought so we decided to leave it for the time being. The Living Room floor was a bit uneven and we couldn't figure out why. It got so bad one day I actually tripped over a panel that rose up in front of me when walking. Claw hammer came out in frustration… [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/8B746280-FD4C-4D9F-87D0-A8B4145A221C.jpg[/IMG] Yeah, he laid laminate on top of laminate. Brilliant. The plan now was to keep the laminate in the dining room and get carpet in the living room. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/78016446-56E9-46D0-A003-D5D4C7BFDF51.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/1264E2E6-1A88-4E7E-AE30-291C3266438F.jpg[/IMG] Then changed my mind the next day, after me and my father in law spending ages getting a nice straight edge and smoking the house out with a grinder :lol: [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/289DA593-803D-427C-943B-3D2846E22CBA.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/68C256DB-37C3-4E6A-A320-D6F6515A7797.jpg[/IMG] So as one job was now leading to another, with 2 layers of underlay & laminate it meant the skirting was sitting really high up the wall, so that came off aswell. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/5265C2AA-03EC-44A2-B12C-80716E4A307C.jpg[/IMG] The guy had a solid bit of wood here, so we concreted it right up to the doors. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/5ABD7BFB-191D-4E01-8413-BE965374ED23.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/3B62F27B-01EA-4476-8D94-700C1ACDCCB7.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/73E38C63-6C22-4C2D-8B2B-E67944B344BA.jpg[/IMG] Wallpaper off too. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/161F83AB-5479-4978-97E7-6FCB159FCC40.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/AB7E69DD-2583-4DD1-ADFB-8D3E81071F07.jpg[/IMG] Went shopping for new bits, started laying the laminate in the dining room. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/176A185F-0C3F-4B61-A82E-642001B92076.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/62460A69-B055-4099-99DE-1CDBEA108DE3.jpg[/IMG] Hunted high and low for some edging strip to go from laminate to carpet that isn't the typical gold or silver Z type, found a shop that sold this profiling strip. The other issue is all lengths in wood are 1.8m, our opening was 2.4m. We don't need it to profile just wanted something that had a wood finish instead. It's not bang on but we were very limited on choice due to the length we needed. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9884.jpg[/IMG] In the middle of all this I'd been getting various calls from Benchmarx about reducing the price of the kitchen, we played about with ideas and in the end on the last day of their sale he gave me a last attempt price and just said he'd leave with us to decide. Well… [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/D2D4A830-98CB-450F-B625-F4C45049B171.jpg[/IMG] Now got a load of carcasses in the living room we're trying to decorate as they have to deliver a certain amount of stuff to invoice apparently :lol: But that's the next project lined up… So anyway, this is how the TV setup was looking on the chimney breast [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/023769BC-34B8-4A5F-8A33-AAC6523FF5BA.jpg[/IMG] It simply isn't enough shelves for me, I have an Xbox, amp, DVD player, WDTV player, Virgin box. So I decided to drop it down to the floor. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/8BAA0871-F7D4-4400-9112-FC1D99CB3CF2.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/1D6DC5BA-4577-4DA9-AB53-D5A584257CD6.jpg[/IMG] Met a little friend…this must have smelt good when it was decomposing! [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/501C7A79-3D5B-4857-8E64-0A07E5EBB02A.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/1D6DC5BA-4577-4DA9-AB53-D5A584257CD6.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/0FE9C022-81E0-455F-9FF7-2B479F746567.jpg[/IMG] Got a mate round to help me run a new socket in, because of the concrete floor downstairs the electrics are all running from upstairs, but nothing was returning to make it a circuit, it was all just spurs. And with the amount of stuff I was going to have plugged in and the computer, printer etc we had to run a return. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/F3DBFCF2-9D65-4885-808A-680136EE06A5.jpg[/IMG] There was a 50mm drainpipe in the wall to run wires which was quite handy to hide cables, but it wasn't big enough. I have no idea how he managed to get a scart lead in it but it was never coming out again. I couldn't fit the plug for the TV through so it had to go. 4" core cutter out... [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/F39C84A6-0466-4A09-9227-D8B9EFC94BD8.jpg[/IMG] Started rebuilding the box section again, but we used a spirit level this time unlike the previous owner… [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/9845FEA9-86A9-4120-9810-68352D23D749.jpg[/IMG] Floor was sitting lower so we raised it with some latex. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/E14D462E-6F24-44FE-A2CF-D45B12264738.jpg[/IMG] I wanted another bit for cables at the side for any computer cables I might put in, TV cables etc. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/0137BE20-3568-422F-A231-F0FB36F97B85.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/EC169EC3-2C4C-4C9B-9AA0-DED3F2387D55.jpg[/IMG] Cleared a space so that sockets can be sunk in [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/73DA7442-3838-4134-84A6-36E39216EE70.jpg[/IMG] Sunk the drainpipe in and stuck in place [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/22773879-7726-407A-AD8D-E8CD5C999439.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/05FEF78C-4876-4C35-8721-AE9424DBA0B5.jpg[/IMG] Boxed the inside [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/D2B90A10-5E67-4662-BB22-4B6A8C0B855B.jpg[/IMG] Plastered [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/E1A50727-DE69-4D89-B947-75575EBAA92A.jpg[/IMG] 50/50 with emulsion to seal it before painting. Did all the skirting, what a difficult and fiddly job…I'll never be in a rush to change skirting again!! Our next issue was we'd bought carpet and arranged fitting. We have a sofa that is due to arrive anyday now so I was in a predicament as to whether to delay the fitting, as we hadn't glossed the skirting yet. In the end we just continued with the fitting. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9886.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9887.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9894.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9899.jpg[/IMG] Love it. It's so soft and nice to walk on. 11mm Cloud 9 underlay too, bad boy. Big debate between me and the Mrs about glossing round the carpet, she wanted to masking tape the carpet down and I said I'd rather take it up than risk getting gloss on it, for the sake of paying the carpet fitter a drink to restretch it…thankfully she gave up and just said whatever. Like I said, it's a pain but if the sofa turns up we can now lay the carpet rather than having to try and get a fitting date through the Carpet shop (2 week delay on fitting) White emulsion layer on the walls, we went with Dulux Cookie Dough. We liked the original colour but it was a discontinued colour, this one is slightly lighter which we wanted rather than making it darker. [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9915.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9916.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9922.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/House/IMG_9923.jpg[/IMG] Skirting is now all glossed, dining room is also painted. Put some new blinds up in the living room, got some thermal curtains to go up by the french doors as you can feel the cold at that end of the room. Wallpaper to redo the feature wall aswell but that's the last job. Run some decorators caulk round the skirting and it's all done and the carpet can go back down. Taken a while but I am happy we have done it all properly now And that's where we're up too at the moment. [Edited on 16-11-2014 by Graham88] [/quote]
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