13 days to go!

Fran tidying up the garden, originally uploaded by Frickley.

The electricians starting doing the "Final Fix" on Friday. I'm hoping they will be finished by Monday evening as I want to start getting the loft boarded out.

On Saturday I put up some smoke alarms and Fran cleaned. We then starting tidying up the garden by moving all of the building rubbish we have accumulated over the last few months.

On Sunday we spent a couple of hours clearing the back garden ready for a new garden shed.

Only 13 days to go!

Floor being sanded

Floor being sanded, originally uploaded by Frickley.

The floor in the conservatory, hall and kitchen were sanded today. Can't wait to see what it will look like once the stain is on! :-) The scaffolding came down today too and Adrian our carpenter put the final coat onto the built-in cupboards.

Cleaning

Lounge, originally uploaded by Frickley.

On Sunday we spent the day cleaning up ready for the floor to be sanded on Tuesday. We also made the most of the last few days of having scaffolding up and cleaned up outside too.

Today was a little more relaxed... this morning we went to B&Q to pick up some varnish for the loft ladder and a hose (so that I could clean the top of the conservatory roof). Fran cleaned and varnished the loft ladder whilst I nearly killed myself by slipping on the wet scaffolding in an attempt to clean the roof!

The picture is of the main lounge, showing the built-in cupboards and new fire place. 17 days to go...

Knackered!

Dawn Painting the hall, originally uploaded by Frickley.

We've spent the last 2 days decorating. We are both knackered!

Fran painted the kitchen on Friday, whilst Dawn painted the woodwork. I cleaned the conservatory roof which was filthy and covered in paint.

Today Fran painted the main bedroom and I sanded and painted the cloakroom. I got the short straw! I HATE sanding, but then so does everybody else!

This week the fitted cupboards were installed into the back and middle bedrooms. They look amazing :-)

We've been trying the get the ground floor totally finahed before the flooring company come in to sand and varnish the floors.

Back to it again tomorrow... next Easter I plan to actually enjoy it!

Kitchen Nightmares...

We found out yesterday that our kitchen has been delayed by 6 weeks! We won't have a fully working kitchen until the begginning of June!! We are now committed to moving in on April 11th. Gutted. They were due to start fitting it at the end of March!

The Coving is finished :-)

Mark Coving, originally uploaded by Frickley.

Mark our expert cover has finished the coving today :-) He did a fantasic job. Apologies to his daughter for borrowing her daddy for the last week. Hopefully she'll be able to sleep properly next week after being tucked in by dad!

Fran and I have been painting the back bedroom and conservatory area. This afternoon we are taking a well earned rest. Fran has already passed out on the sofa! We were going to go shopping but she's too knackered. Shame...

Finished Bathroom!

Finished Bathroom!, originally uploaded by Frickley.

Loads of progress this week :-) We've now got the built-in cupboards fitted in the lounge. The French doors have been fitted. The main bathroom is virtually done. I've been putting up coving every night this week. Absolutely knackered!

The 2nd lounge has been painted and the middle bedroom is almost done too :-)

Today we've had 4 people painting the hallway! Many thanks to Amanda, Rach & Johhny for their help!

Richard (Fran's Dad) has been brilliant too. The doors he has painted look great and he's also been sorting out our floor boards in prepartion for the carpets.

Dawn our decorator has been her usual excellent self!

There has been so much progress this week I may put up some more photo's tomorrow.

As always there are plenty more photo's on our Flickr account here.

Our friends at "Kitchen Needs" have helped us out again with yet another great referral... thanks to their friend Mark we now have coving! Cheers Mark! Mark and I have been burning the midnight oil this week and have got most of the coving done. To be fair I'm just the labourer despite Mark calling me the, "King Cover!" It should all be finished tomorrow.

A working loo

Main bathroom, originally uploaded by Frickley.

The bathrooms are nearly fitted and we have a working toilet! The French doors are finally being fitted tomorrow and Tuesday.

We've nearly finished all the prep work. It'll be nice once all the sanding is done and we can start thinking about putting on a top coat of paint.

We've spent most of the weekend sanding and preping. Fran's Dad came along to give us a hand too which was great.

If anyone fancies doing some painting let me know!

New Bath!

New Bath!, originally uploaded by Frickley.

I'm having to do the blog at the moment as James is not very well... The new bathrooms are being installed this week :-) Praying that everything will be ready for April 11th... Fx

New Fire Place

New Fire Place, originally uploaded by Frickley.

We've now had our new fire place installed in the lounge. The loft hatch has been replastered and Virgin Media have put in the new phone lines and broadband. I had to climb onto the roof to put the cabling in place as the engineer wasn't insured to do it. It was a bit hairy but a lot less scary than than the alternative... telling Fran that we had to run cables through every room in the house! :-)

The kitchen electrics are now finished, so they can go ahead and start installing that in a couple of weeks...