House Progress

It’s now a week since we collected the keys for the house, and so far progress has been pretty good. Obviously there’s still a long way to go, but for the first week, yeah, I think we’re generally happy with what’s happened so far.
In that week we’ve:

• Cleared out the garage of existing crap
• Got rid of a mahogany-veneer flatpack monstrosity, horrific 80s brick/stone/concrete fireplace, carpet, and underlying lino floortiles in the living room
• Removed all the old damp carpets from the other rooms
• Stripped half the poxy fucking Anaglypta® wallpaper in the hallway and half the easy-to-remove stuff in the living room
• Measured all the rooms, and the garden (a mere 165ft x 50ft) and drawn up basic plans for what goes where etc.
• Talked to the architect regarding the plans he sent through, and sent back amendments
• Sorted out a new account with water board (surprisingly painless) and electricity provider (also surprisingly painless)
• Filled a 6ft³ skip with crap frm the house, had that collected, and replaced it with a 4ft³ one
• Contacted a decent local electrician (the joy of contacts in the area)
• Found a potential supplier/installer for the wood-burner we plan to put in – and decided on the types of wood-burner we want to see when they come over
  and
• Had quotes from three places for the floor tiles we want (including a wonderful argument in B&Q), found a place with a good price and placed the order – for 116m² of tiles, plus all the adhesive and grout

So yeah,, not bad at all.

Tonight, and over the coming week we plan to :

1. Meet the electrician, and get a quote
2. See the stoves/wood-burners, and get a proper quote on how much it’ll cost
3. Sort out the veg-patch area of the garden (Herself’s domain)
4. Strip all remaining wallpaper
5. Get rid of poxy cheap laminate flooring in hallway
6. Decide what to do with the teak parquet flooring that’s underneath it
7. (Hopefully) Take delivery of all the floor tiles etc.
8. Work out the poxy boiler/heating/hot-water system, which is currently tits-up
9. (Hopefully) Get the boiler checked out and serviced
10. Deal with meter readings etc. for the electricity account (I’ve done it twice and lost the notes on both occasions)

and probably another couple of things I can’t currently remember.
Not busy at all, then…