We have a lot of plans for our new house. We want to take it from boring, uninspiring and bland to something fun and creative and relaxing. But to start with we have a long list of things that need doing before I can get excited about tables and pictures. Here goes:
Living Room:
- Wallpaper needs to come off from around the fireplace
- Damp proofing and re-plastering around the fireplace
- Floor needs sanding and re-finising to a lighter wood. At the moment it's a reddy brown and NOT GOOD.
- Walls and ceiling need to be repainted a non "We've been smoking in here" colour
- Ceiling coving needs re-glossing
- Curtain poles need to go up
- Blind and curtains need to go up at the window
- Holes left from previous owners need to be filled and sanded
- Hardware on cupboards needs replacing
Dining Room:
- Walls and ceiling need to be repainted
- Holes left from previous owners need to be filled and sanded
- Curtain poles need to go up
- Curtains need to go up
- Floor needs sanding and re-finishing
- Hardware on cupboards needs replacing
Kitchen:
- Cooker and Fridge need to be installed
- Vent needs to be sorted out as it's all wonky and strange
- Holes left from previous owners need to be filled and sanded
- Solid wood work surface need to be oiled and massive strange stain needs to be dealt with.
- Tiling behind work surface
- Walls need fresh coat of paint.
Bathroom:
- MASSIVE CLEAN
- Shower needs to be re-sealed and de-limescaled
- Tap on bath needs fixing
- Holes in the walls need filling and sanding
- Walls and ceiling need painting
- Need to find new toilet lid and currently there isn't one!
Bedroom 1:
- Holes in walls need filling and sanding
- Strange shelf on the chimney breast needs to come down
- Curtain poles and curtains need to go up
- Wallpaper needs to come down
- Walls and ceiling need to be repainted as does all the trim
- Hideous light fitting needs to be burnt
Bedroom 2:
- Blind needs to come down and replace by a non broken non blue one.
- Carpet either needs to be properly cleaned or replaced
- Holes in walls need filling and sanding
- Walls, ceiling and trim need to be painted
- Cupboards need to be repainted and hardware replaced
Hallway:
- Damproof course and replastering needed
- Walls, ceiling and trim need repainting
- Floor needs to be sanded and refinished
- Light fitting needs to be replaced
Stairs and Landing:
- Holes in walls need filling and sanding
- Walls, ceiling and trim need to be repainted
- Carpet needs to be replaced so that it is not RED
Outhouse:
- Needs cleaning
- Shelving needs to be installed
- Padlock needs to be replaced
Phew. I'm sure there is a LOT more where that came from, but those are just the basics!
Thursday, 13 October 2011
We're IN!
HOORAY!
Yesterday at about 4:45pm we finally had the keys to our very own house in our mits! It was very exciting and also very strange. Ben said he felt physically sick. We didn't say a word to each other on the way to the house from the estate agents. My brain was buzzing and I JUST WANTED TO GET THERE.
It's lovely. It's in a bit of a state at the moment, the vendors left in a hurry and clearly don't clean that often anyway so we have a bit of a job ahead of us. Nothing was a big surprise though so that was nice.
There are quite a few big holes in the walls where they have been pulled apart in the process of removing mirrors and wall fittings, but I don't think it's anything that some Poly Filler and a bit of patience can't sort out.
Yesterday at about 4:45pm we finally had the keys to our very own house in our mits! It was very exciting and also very strange. Ben said he felt physically sick. We didn't say a word to each other on the way to the house from the estate agents. My brain was buzzing and I JUST WANTED TO GET THERE.
It's lovely. It's in a bit of a state at the moment, the vendors left in a hurry and clearly don't clean that often anyway so we have a bit of a job ahead of us. Nothing was a big surprise though so that was nice.
There are quite a few big holes in the walls where they have been pulled apart in the process of removing mirrors and wall fittings, but I don't think it's anything that some Poly Filler and a bit of patience can't sort out.
Another fun thing we discovered by accident is that the house has a panic button! It's a strange box in the main bedroom with a huge red button on the top. When you press it all hell breaks loose. The house alarms started blaring and we were frantically running around trying to find the scrap of paper that had the alarm code on!
Anyway, we are very happy and excited and probably a little nervous. I think we will get used to it though.
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Friday, 7 October 2011
Bargain Range
In less aggressive news, we finally bought our new range cooker!
Very excited indeed!
It's all down to Mama Hernandez who kindly emailed a brilliant "10% off of Range style cookers at Currys" voucher code to us!
Here she is (the cooker not my mum):
Very excited indeed!
It's all down to Mama Hernandez who kindly emailed a brilliant "10% off of Range style cookers at Currys" voucher code to us!
Here she is (the cooker not my mum):
I even included the nice beige looking man in the corner. He's right though, it was free next day delivery if we wanted it (we didn't, the vendors hate us enough without us sending a cooker round their house while they still live there) but we got free delivery none the less and it's arriving on the 16th of October. Rejoice!
It's the Kenwood CK404FS Dual Fuel Range Cooker at costs £599 without the voucher. Admittedly this is one of the cheaper range cookers on the market - they go right up to £2000 if you want something really swish...but because the most use it will get out of Ben and I on a regular basis will probably be oven chips and the odd roast dinner, we thought this bad boy would suffice. Plus at least we have heard of the brand before.
It's got two separate ovens unlike the cheaper version which is £499, that has one massive oven space and would probably take a month to heat up. I think it was worth an extra £100.
We also added on installation at £74.95 as we didn't want to blow ourselves up trying to install something involving gas. In fact, I think you might have to have things like this installed by a pro these days.
Anyway this was the discount...we ended up with a whopping £60 off!:
So if you put RANGE10 in the box when you are ordering it will knock 10% off of any range cooker in the Currys collection. The code is only available until the 12th of October so you might want to hurry up.
Nice Work Guys!
Well...Phillip James Wilson Estate Agents and Virgin Media have a LOT of to answer for today! The fact that everyone is still alive after I was finished with them is a miracle.
Let me explain.
I thought I was being nice and organised by booking in our internet/TV/landline to be installed in the new house after we have moved in on the 12th October. I went ahead and booked everything in online to get hooked up at the end of October. Happy days, I thought. When I received an email from Virgin saying the current owners have an account with them and that there can't be two accounts at one address, I promptly called them, explaining we wouldnt be moving in until the 12th and by that point the current owners will have either moved their account or cancelled it. Done and sorted, Virgin said they would chase them up to make sure they did one or the other by the 12th. Thanks.
Then, yesterday evening, Ben received the RUDEST, most CAPITALISED email ever from our estate agent PJW to say the vendors have called to say their Virgin has been disconnected as YOU have informed Virgin that the property is empty. Erm, you what?
Er, we didn't. Where do you get off accusing us of something you have no idea is true or false? In what world could we get someone else's Virgin cut off without being the account holders?
A swift (and angry) call to Virgin revealed that they had indeed cut the vendors off but nobody knew why.
This morning a swift (and angry) visit revealed that Phillip James Wilson are a bunch of rude, retarded, dick heads without an ounce of common sense/decency between them. I went in and shit went down let me tell you. I made them call the vendors while I was there to make sure I could hear every word said between all the 'tards. Turns out a manager at Virgin had told the vendors I'd said the property was unoccupied. Again, big fat lie.
After pulling a semi automatic on their arses (I SO WISH) it was Virgins turn! FUN TIMES! They are investigating it for us. Whatevs! I left it with a nice man called Liam who is apparently calling the vendors to assure them it was nothing to with us and that the blame lies fully with Virgin Media.
I should probably be more angry with Virgin than I am with PJW, but their staff are so fucking rude and have been nothing but agressive and unhelpful since the moment we had our offer accepted on the house. I want them to go DOWN. Falsely accusing someone of something like this is pretty serious and I'm not taking it lightly. THEY WILL PAY.
Breathe.
Let me explain.
I thought I was being nice and organised by booking in our internet/TV/landline to be installed in the new house after we have moved in on the 12th October. I went ahead and booked everything in online to get hooked up at the end of October. Happy days, I thought. When I received an email from Virgin saying the current owners have an account with them and that there can't be two accounts at one address, I promptly called them, explaining we wouldnt be moving in until the 12th and by that point the current owners will have either moved their account or cancelled it. Done and sorted, Virgin said they would chase them up to make sure they did one or the other by the 12th. Thanks.
Then, yesterday evening, Ben received the RUDEST, most CAPITALISED email ever from our estate agent PJW to say the vendors have called to say their Virgin has been disconnected as YOU have informed Virgin that the property is empty. Erm, you what?
Er, we didn't. Where do you get off accusing us of something you have no idea is true or false? In what world could we get someone else's Virgin cut off without being the account holders?
A swift (and angry) call to Virgin revealed that they had indeed cut the vendors off but nobody knew why.
This morning a swift (and angry) visit revealed that Phillip James Wilson are a bunch of rude, retarded, dick heads without an ounce of common sense/decency between them. I went in and shit went down let me tell you. I made them call the vendors while I was there to make sure I could hear every word said between all the 'tards. Turns out a manager at Virgin had told the vendors I'd said the property was unoccupied. Again, big fat lie.
After pulling a semi automatic on their arses (I SO WISH) it was Virgins turn! FUN TIMES! They are investigating it for us. Whatevs! I left it with a nice man called Liam who is apparently calling the vendors to assure them it was nothing to with us and that the blame lies fully with Virgin Media.
I should probably be more angry with Virgin than I am with PJW, but their staff are so fucking rude and have been nothing but agressive and unhelpful since the moment we had our offer accepted on the house. I want them to go DOWN. Falsely accusing someone of something like this is pretty serious and I'm not taking it lightly. THEY WILL PAY.
Breathe.
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Grown Ups
We spent a sunny Saturday afternoon wondering around Comet and Currys along with all the other middle aged Mancunians looking for a fridge and a cooker. I genuinely thought it might be more fun.
It wasn't.
To add insult to injury I found out we couldn't get an American style side-by-side fridge freezer because there isn't enough room in our kitchen. :(
Seriously the world is SO unfair. I'm SO HARD DONE BY.
Oh, the roller coaster of buying a house.
We did pick out a couple of cookers we liked though. Basically the cheapest and the second cheapest. The vendors are taking their amazing range cooker with them (selfish) so we need to get another to fit the space it's leaving in the kitchen. It's a bit of a buggar as there is only two of us and we don't have much use for a massive cooker, but in a strange way I'm quite excited about it. I think it makes up for the sad loss of my dream massive American style fridge.
What can I say, I like over-sized white goods.
It wasn't.
To add insult to injury I found out we couldn't get an American style side-by-side fridge freezer because there isn't enough room in our kitchen. :(
Seriously the world is SO unfair. I'm SO HARD DONE BY.
Oh, the roller coaster of buying a house.
We did pick out a couple of cookers we liked though. Basically the cheapest and the second cheapest. The vendors are taking their amazing range cooker with them (selfish) so we need to get another to fit the space it's leaving in the kitchen. It's a bit of a buggar as there is only two of us and we don't have much use for a massive cooker, but in a strange way I'm quite excited about it. I think it makes up for the sad loss of my dream massive American style fridge.
What can I say, I like over-sized white goods.
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