nomadpete Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 If you put Jan..Feb..Mar, etc across the top you can reuse the chart every year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Would that not create an eternal (and in the ase of this place, and infernal) loop? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said: Would that not create an eternal (and in the ase of this place, and infernal) loop? Home renovations ARE unending. The closest to completion I ever achieved, was the dayI put the house on the market. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 On 10/03/2024 at 9:08 AM, nomadpete said: Come clean OME. That's not yours for the bathroom. Your top line would read.... 2023... 2024...2025... Haste makes waste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Things are starting to move on the reno front. Have just ordered a large skip for 4 weeks. It arrives on Friday and we start work ripping out kitchen and other fixtures which are to go, as well as damaged plaster and general junk. We have foudn asbestos on the property in sheets; Have moved it to a safe place and will get the council in to dispose of it. The kitchen looks OK in the above shot, but it is old, hardly any drawers work, it ha marks all over it; The bean in the foreground will be replaced with a wider and shallow bean and will extend to beyond the doorway you can see in the left foreground. We may be able to get the steel level with the ceiling. The ceiling is shot, but rather than rip it out and re=plaster, it will be battened, plaster boarded and skimmed. Am just ordering the flooring (engineered oak) and carpets for up stairs. Have ordered built in wardrobes and storage shelves. Today, all the central (hydronic) heating radiators have been removed by the plumbers.. just as the weather cooled a bit, too.. So we are again without heating, but I am pretty happy about that. We have to get some remedial work on the walls done and then paint the areas of the radiators as we managed to scoop buy three-column neutral cast iron radiators at a good discount (partner had been researching and found someone doing a closing down sale) The walls themselves have a bit of work to be done, and as it is lime plaster, we are looking at brining in a specialist: Skip arrives on Friday for 4 weeks.. Lots will be happening between from then. When we are done, we are going to sell the place. It is too big for us. We will buy something back in London and look for something in Melbourne. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 Gobsmacked. Betcha won't be looking for a dooerupper next time. But you will feel great when you see the finished article when all this is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 6 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said: plaster boarded Is that what we call gyprock sheeting, and the Yanks call drywall? I always makes me wonder when I watch the English DIY Rescue shows with Nick Knowles that they sheet walls then come in with plaster. Here, gyprock simply needs a primer coat then you put on your desired sealant (paint. tile, wallpaper). Are we likely to see your place as a choice in Escape to the Country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 15/04/2024 at 9:36 PM, nomadpete said: Betcha won't be looking for a dooerupper next time. Certainly not a listed (or in Aus, Heritage listed) building. Way too much bureaucracy to deal with. Also, wouldn't mind it when I don't have so much else on teh go, as I don't mind doing some of the work myself. But, I would like the next place to not have anything but the carpets replaced and a lick of paint. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 15/04/2024 at 10:23 PM, old man emu said: s that what we call gyprock sheeting, and the Yanks call drywall? I would guess so.. Plumbers took a bit longer than they expcted to do the pipework, but they are done. I was relegated to the AirBnB on Tuesday. so packed up my workstation and motored it to the cottage (a whole 20 or so metres down the driveway... And set it up on the kitchn table. I have for monitors on a single monitor stand. Went to work Wednesday and Thursday this week (normally Tuesday and Wednesday).. Friday morning, I thought the plumbers had finished, so retrieved my git. There are three steps down from the kitchen to the libing room and front door of the cottage (no hall). I thought I had stepped down them, but missed by one. I went A over T hilding the monitor stand with 4 monitors, and with about 25kgs, managed to save all but one. So a new monitor was ordered - second hand of course.. Managed to find the same as one of the ones I have, so that was good. Skip arrived yesterday (Friday) and the first thing to be thrown into it is the old monitor. On Monday, confirm when the builders are putting in a new steel, and then will commence the demoliaton of the kitchen and the partition walls, as well as killing the circuits to the oven, etc. Things are moving and they are going to get mightly quick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 When the time comes to sell up, why don't you contact Escape to the Country and let them take a look at your place for a possible choice for an episode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 When we were doing up our place in London, we were approached by some TV show, but politely declined. It wasn't grand designs - what we were doing would not have made that grade. We have a couple of friends who are local real estate agents and one a buyers' agent, so we will simply spread the word through them. Anyone who is actively buying will register with the agents, anyway. Yeah, if it goes onto escape to the Country, it may entice someone not thinking about moving to look at it, but to be honest, I think it is a long shot and they would likely be tyre kickers. I was thhinking about including it in a raffle, but it can be too risky.. With the house comes a fully self-contained 2br cottage, a coachouse (with vehicle nspection pit), a share of the local community pub, and for a little more, as many of the garden implements as they want. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 4 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said: With the house comes a fully self-contained 2br cottage, a coachouse (with vehicle nspection pit), a share of the local community pub, and for a little more, as many of the garden implements as they want. Wow! The perfect Escape to the Country fodder. House with holiday let; outbuildings and close to the local pub. All it needs is for the village to have a Norman church dedicated to an eccentric Saxon hermit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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