Well it’s been a while since I last wrote something (about 3 months!) but the big news is that we finally have the internet, so I am going to start bugging everyone with updates about the house again.

We (by we I mean me) have done loads of DIY which I will tell you all about in the very near future, stay tuned………

Today should see the last of our crap being moved from our Woolstone house, all that is left is Mark’s double matress that we are pilfering. Should be interesting to get into a 106!

With my family now gone the decorating has slowed a bit, well to a halt really. While they were up we managed to do the small bedroom, the study and most of the hallway, all they need now is to be painted their final colour (which will happen when Becca makes her mind up). With Becca off for a week I think that it’s only fair that I stop decorating and wait for her to come back 🙂 Maybe, at a push, I may strip some of the door frames.

I have been planning the study in my head, I think that I am going to have a lot of fun with power tools putting in a fitted desk and shelving, I’m sure it’ll all fall down in a matter of minutes once it’s finished!

As for the boiler, well there are still issues, it’s leaking out of somewhere but we are not sure where. Yesterday I refilled it and turned off the main pipes to the radiators and this morning the pressure seemed fine, so it looks like there’s a leak under the floor somewhere, which is going to land us with a bill for another few grand 🙁 oh well. such is life.

I really will get some pictures of the nearly finished rooms, it’s just that I have to wait for Becca to get them off her phone and you know what she’s like……..

Well I have spent the last couple of days doing some real hard graft, and I am truely knackered. So far we have:

Stripped, filled, smoothed and undercoated the study (formally the utility room),

Stripped and filled the hallway,

Stripped, filled and half smoothed the small bedroom,

Fixed the hatch to the loft.

Next is to undercoat the hall, bedroom and the study again, and then to paint the skirting boards. We still have no idea on the colour scheme, Becca wants to paint the whole house the same colour, which I’m not too keen on. As for the garage, well, looks like we will be getting someone in for that 🙁 My family are up for four more days, so hopefully we will have the entire house sorted by then! Not likely I fear.

In the last three days the only rest I have had is when I was looking around Homebase, so a nice relaxing three day sleep would be great, but not likely to happen, sadly. As for Becca, well she keeps having to come to ‘work’, I suspect she is just going back to the other house and sleeping!

Will upload some of the pictures of the stuff we’ve done when I get a chance.

It’s all rather exciting, on Monday we tried to get an appointment with a plumber to get a boiler put in, the time scale we were looking at was early May some time! This really wasn’t an option since we get kicked out of our Woolstone house on the 20th. But, as luck would have it, one of the jobs they were currently doing was going to be held up for two days so they could do it there and then. So off we rushed and they got to work. Two days later and we have a fully functioning boiler 🙂

Now all we need is a phone line and broadband and the flat will be livable, I know i said that about the hot water but it’s not my fault I have high standards.

My family are going to come up on Monday and we will begin decorating and, weather permitting, do the garage roof.

The last couple of days have been knackering. We had all our stuff delivered from all over the place yesterday and I set about putting everything together. So far we have two working futons and a table with four chairs put together. The loft bed that Becca loved but I dispised has been partially taken apart and will be relegated to the loft in due course.

Spent a while glueing the broken tiles down to the floor in the living room last night, needless to say that I got it all over my fingers! Luckily I had forseen such a schoolboy error and had bought some that I could get off with nail polish remover 🙂

Becca got to work on steam cleaning the futons (they really need it) and the floor in the small bedroom.

It’s almost livable now, we just have no hot water (realised the imersion heater doesn’t work either) or heating. Looks like we will be sleeping on the inflatable bed in Woolstone for a few more night yet 🙁 Certainly until we can get a sensible quote for the bolier.

Most importantly though, we found the local centre, it has a chinese and chip shop rolled into one! And even better, it is less than five minutes away. Needless to say in a few weeks time I’m sure they will know us by name 🙂

Yesterday I did what all men claim to be able to do, assemble a flat packed wardrobe. But, not only was it flat packed, it didn’t have any instructions! Becca was very impressed by this feat, a little too impressed I feel, almost as if she had no faith in me! Becca was very helpful while I was slaving away, she did all the filing that we had accumulated in the 3 days we owned the place, hmmmmm.

Today is going to be spent moving more of our stuff in, joy.

The sale FINALLY went through on Monday, so as of then Becca and I are home owners 🙂 It’s all very exciting.

We have so far tidyed up and changed the locks. We had a plumber come and look at the boiler and get the water running again too, it would appear that the boiler is kaput, nevermind. Looks like we will have to get it fixed before we move in.

Pictures of our new house are in the photos section