Excited as if going on vacation (nearly).. or how to blow your aborted vacation budget.

[rockgems]

Our cancelled holiday has been spent on redecorating the lounge and hallway, new sofas, new lounge furniture, curtains and new tv and surround sound system.

[sunjue100]

We spent ours on turning the box room into a walk in wardrobe for me 😊 and DH is having a. Built on bbq, pizza oven combo in the garden. We were already in the middle of having an orangery built which should be finished this week 🤞, then I can retire happily at the end of October and enjoy it all.

[Charl_bb]

Originally Posted by VeryexcitedH

My sister in law has a door from her garage into the house. She's split the garage in half for storage and the other half a kind of utility room. My friend did the same and out a second kitchen in with wine fridge and gym equipment

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We've done exactly this. We had a door from kitchen to garage so turned the back half into a utility room.

[cornishfrogboy]

UPDATE UPDATE.

The builder duly arrived at 0830 on Monday and the day was then spent bringing in Blocks, Plaster, Cement, Sand, Damp Course, Wall ties etc .

Tuesday I have been at work. I came home to find this early progress!

Pretty good I guess, to my untrained eye. Garage door out tomorrow!

[lizzie145]

Originally Posted by kathrynmc

Ours is a reasonable sized bathroom, it included everything, ceiling, wall and floor tiles, shower cubicle, bath etc , but I was expecting it to be around Ł6000

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ceiling tiles?

[smithlane]

Originally Posted by lizzie145

ceiling tiles?

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I don’t think they meant ceiling tiles, just sorting the ceiling out like re-plastering?

[smithlane]

Originally Posted by cornishfrogboy

UPDATE UPDATE.

The builder duly arrived at 0830 on Monday and the day was then spent bringing in Blocks, Plaster, Cement, Sand, Damp Course, Wall ties etc .

Tuesday I have been at work. I came home to find this early progress!

Pretty good I guess, to my untrained eye. Garage door out tomorrow!

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Looking good, they’ve done quite a lot in only 2 days

[Mr Tom Morrow]

CFB. Nice blockwork. Is the brickie putting a pier in the middle?

[cornishfrogboy]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

CFB. Nice blockwork. Is the brickie putting a pier in the middle?

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The run is just over 14 feet. He has laid a damp course as he has not physically seen a membrane. He is using metal ties at both ends .. on every mortice layer. No pier, though.

Tomorrow it is the garage door coming off and hopefully laying up to window sill level.. plus an exploration through the kitchen wall in order to establish levels.

Block work does look good.

Interestingly, the builder says that to the side of the garage is sufficient room to build a house. Whilst I currently have no intention of moving and no intention of giving up land (even for profit). It might be an option should we ever sell... build it or obtain planning permission prior to sale.

[Colette-S]

Great progress CFB, you must be a hard taskmaster
Is Mrs CFB choosing the interiors or is that your job?