Renovating stinks!!
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Topic: Renovating stinks!!
Posted By: Aprilfools
Subject: Renovating stinks!!
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 1:17pm
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Just thought I'd share that.
Our house is a mess and we don't know what to do next. Waitakere city council stink too. Poos. |
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 1:22pm
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Ditto on the poos!
We have bits of wallpapers from one end of the property to the other, and all the little bits that were outside after rubbish transferral are baked onto the concrete 
Not to mention that biffing out all the renovation crap is a bit rough on my attempts at being eco-friendly! I'm sure I can FEEL global warming heating up as I throw out all this crap!  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 1:30pm
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tell me about it. my driveway looks like a demo yard with cardboard, old cupboards, carpet and rubbish. going to get a skip this weekend. Was suppose to be getting new carpet last week but the new bath has sprung a leak out into the hallway somewhere so now we have to rip the wall off and hope its something obvious that we can fix and not have to pay a plumber AND put off the carpet yet again cos there are no more dates to get it done before christmas if we miss this one.
Plus im sick of having two lights in the whole living/kitchen/dining area, no dining table and tripping over tools everywhere i walk. I keep saying to myself it will all be over soon and it will be worth it in the end |
Posted By: Aprilfools
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 1:49pm
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Well some good news. DH managed to find a draughtsman today who is going to take a look. Still a 4 - 5 week turnaround and then we've still got the stupid council to deal with. Trouble is we don't know what was or should be permitted in the upstairs part of our house and neither do the council.
Yes my2angels that is just like our house. Our clothes are on the counch at the moment while we finish the one room we can complete upstairs. The space that is our 'new' lounge has got everything BUT a lounge shoved in there. And now my stupid cooktop has broken again. We have however managed to keep the outside rather tidy thanks to the old owners removing all our rubbish for us!!
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 3:06pm
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and here I was just thinking how aweful my hallway looks that has taken us almost a month to half gib (we've complete newbies to this and can't afford a gib-erer person) and that's before we even start to tackle to the kitchen and bathroom refit!
It's all worth it in the end ladies.... isn't it?!?!?  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 3:08pm
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and here I was just thinking how aweful my hallway looks that has taken us almost a month to half gib (we've complete newbies to this and can't afford a gib-erer person) and that's before we even start to tackle to the kitchen and bathroom refit!
It's all worth it in the end ladies.... isn't it?!?!? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 3:10pm
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and here I was just thinking how aweful my hallway looks that has taken us almost a month to half gib (we've complete newbies to this and can't afford a gib-erer person) and that's before we even start to tackle to the kitchen and bathroom refit!
It's all worth it in the end ladies.... isn't it?!?!? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 3:45pm
| i hope its worth it! im soooo sick of plaster dust everywhere. even when we put drop sheets down it manages to get underneath. my computer is covered in a layer of it and so is everything in my kitchen! |
Posted By: Aprilfools
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 3:48pm
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hehe - our floors have got little white foot prints everywhere. No matter how hard we try to clean it more shows up.
I've got one very small wall that I could gib stop if I wanted to but that's about it at the moment. |
Posted By: Tiff
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 6:50pm
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I fully understand, I'm so sick of living in a dusty dirty house. House work goes out the window because as soon as you wipe a surface it gets that layer of dust straight back!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 7:25pm
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Yep been there in fact this time last year we were doing up 2 bedrooms and about to tackle a bathroom. I was 30 odd weeks pregnant and we didn't have a bathroom for 5 days - so not nice. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 13 November 2007 at 9:06pm
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hehe, try no kitchen for 6 weeks..in the middle of winter!!!
Renovations ROCK!! NOT!!! |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 14 November 2007 at 10:43am
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Ah I am SO GLAD to hear other women saying that!!! They completely suck, don't they! Ours are finally getting there, after years of living in a half-finished dump (and oh I sooo hear ya on the constant gib-dust problem. That stuff can go ANYWHERE eh). I had a fit yesterday when Ella found daddy's power-drill (tools everywhere - and I can't get it through to him that most of them can't be left on the floor), tipped it over, and the head on it which is very sharp landed literally a millimetre away from her hand on the floor, and landed so hard it stabbed a hole right through the new lino. For goodness sakes, renovating with toddlers is just the dumbest idea in the world! I've told DH I won't renovate again. Ever. ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Tiff
Date Posted: 14 November 2007 at 10:48am
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Yeah our renovations started at Easter this year, and we hope to have the bulk completed by Christmas as with the baby due in Feb we want them done before it arrives. I can't imagine doing them with a toddler!!! Once bulk is done all we have to do it tart up the exsisting bedrooms and bathroom. I'm just thankful with putting our new kitchen in we weren't without one as new one went into old laundry, then old kitchen got ripped out (which we sold on trademe with a start of $1 no reserve and it went for $100!!!). ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 14 November 2007 at 10:56am
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That's the way to do it, Tiff - before baby is getting into everything! Now if only you could have convinced my DH of that a couple of years ago! ...I was having a 'moment' here, and mum was over - she said "dear, I went for 8 months without a kitchen and two small children at home". ------------- Andie |
Posted By: TaylasMum
Date Posted: 14 November 2007 at 11:39am
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I am not a fan of them either, I love my half finshed house HEHE ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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