The House Projects Thread

[Jobbo]

About half of our garden area was impenetrable bushes. I’ve taken out a small amount in the 5 years we’ve lived here and intend to take a bit more out this autumn, but I’m wary because you can’t re-grow this stuff quickly and I don’t have an actual plan. Will just be more to mow so no urgency

[Carlos]

Previously we have had a chippy build wardrobes with sliding doors but we don't want to go down that route again as the doors are always a pain when the kids leave crap on the floor.

We're doing out my sons bedroom and had a couple of prices for fitted wardrobes and our preferred choice was the cheapest at £3,500

Its a run of circa 2600m of wardrobes (6x400mm doors) scribed to fit an alcove fitted out with a range of hanging space, drawers and cubby holes etc

It seems a lot to me but i am tight and grew up with my dad butchering MFI furniture. I'd appreciate some feedback if that's what this stuff costs ?

[dinny_g]

When we moved into our place, the "Built in Wardrobe" in the master bedroom had a curtain front which I hate. Total width of the wardrobe is about 220mm so a little narrower than your space

So we got 3 75mm wide by 220mm high doors fitted - Oak "effect" with the centre one 3 mirrored panels. The fitter installed plinth's, top and bottom to hold the rails and edge pieces to make it nice and square and a frame all round. Really nice job. All in was about £700. Now he didn't have to do any of the internals but £3,500 seems... well, an awful lot for yours.

Why are you going for 40mm doors - they seem quite narrow ?? Is that a folding door type ??

[Mito Man]

Some units being mixed by both Dinny and Carlos unless you're talking about this

[Swervin_Mervin]

Having just priced up some rough sawn treated timber at the local merchants - to build some compost bins - it wouldn't surprise me if that's a reasonable price, especially once you factor in labour. Wood is bloody expensive these days! I imagine that's a 3-4 day job to build - assuming it's a one-man band?

[Swervin_Mervin]

Some units being mixed by both Dinny and Carlos unless you're talking about this

[dinny_g]

Absolutely …

Multiply by 10 for mine.

This is why I pay professionals to do all this stuff!!

[dinny_g]

£450 for the 3 doors
£250 Labour.

Took him about 7 hours to fit

[Carlos]

They are hinged doors, 3 pairs of 400mm doors. I assume yours are sliding if they are that big, which we are trying to avoid ?

I think I'm just being tight as I've just priced sliding doors and a modular interior with drawers etc and that's best part of £1,500 in materials and still not what my wife wants

[dinny_g]

My only regret is not going for 3 rails so the two solid doors are on the same rail. This means the maximum opening is about 850mm (<-- checks... yes, that's right) whereas if we had 3, all 3 doors could be stored in front of one of each other leading to a bigger opening.

But this is a small gripe. The guys I used did a marvelous job really

[dinny_g]

I'll forgive Mito because of his age but I'm disappointed no-one else thought to post this.

Ah well, I guess I'll have to...

[Rich B]

What is this? A cupboard for ants?

[dinny_g]

[Ascender]

What is this? A cupboard for ants?

Brilliant

[Ascender]

Who says local government is inefficient?

Dropped a quick email to see how the Crofting Commission application was looking.

"Good news, they've looked at it in the middle of August".

Superb... And?

"They want to see another couple of documents."

And who did they communicate that to?

"Nobody"

So another circa 6 weeks wasted.....

[Gavster]

Speaking of inefficiencies, I finally have a court date in late November for the claim we filed in January. It's a short hearing, however, due to the nature of the defence, we're asking the court to determine the claim without further hearing. The neighbours are representing themselves, and to give you an idea of how well they're dealing with it, my solicitor signs off every letter with "and we repeat our continuing assertion and advice that you should seek competent legal advice in this matter".

[Ascender]

Speaking of inefficiencies, I finally have a court date in late November for the claim we filed in January. It's a short hearing, however, due to the nature of the defence, we're asking the court to determine the claim without further hearing. The neighbours are representing themselves, and to give you an idea of how well they're dealing with it, my solicitor signs off every letter with "and we repeat our continuing assertion and advice that you should seek competent legal advice in this matter".

That's amazing. Apart from actually telling them they should get a solicitor, have they not seen any tv or media coverage about what happens when someone represents themselves in an actual proper court setting?

[Rich B]

Speaking of inefficiencies, I finally have a court date in late November for the claim we filed in January. It's a short hearing, however, due to the nature of the defence, we're asking the court to determine the claim without further hearing. The neighbours are representing themselves, and to give you an idea of how well they're dealing with it, my solicitor signs off every letter with "and we repeat our continuing assertion and advice that you should seek competent legal advice in this matter".

That's amazing. Apart from actually telling them they should get a solicitor, have they not seen any tv or media coverage about what happens when someone represents themselves in an actual proper court setting?

don't people just "not turn up" in this type of thing?

[Gavster]

Speaking of inefficiencies, I finally have a court date in late November for the claim we filed in January. It's a short hearing, however, due to the nature of the defence, we're asking the court to determine the claim without further hearing. The neighbours are representing themselves, and to give you an idea of how well they're dealing with it, my solicitor signs off every letter with "and we repeat our continuing assertion and advice that you should seek competent legal advice in this matter".

That's amazing. Apart from actually telling them they should get a solicitor, have they not seen any tv or media coverage about what happens when someone represents themselves in an actual proper court setting?

When it's all over I'll share more details, but the saying "a man who represents himself has a fool for a client" has never been truer. Their reply to our claim was 261 pages long, 99.9% of which was entirely irrelevant, hence the reason for seeking a determination at this hearing.

@Rich B I wish, in this case it's quite the opposite, they will definitely turn up and attempt to deliver a devastating act of legal performance. Unfortunately, their understanding of legal practice and the finer points of landlord and tenant law ranks somewhere between that drunk bloke in your local who knows his rights and "my mate told me"

I'll be glad when we get to a resolution, this all started in 2019 and had to go on hold due to Covid. It's quite sad, because the more they get backed into a corner, the more they double down and fight and they could ultimately lose their home - something that's been made clear to them from the start. This process started because they sent me an email stating they'd filed a claim in the county court against me, which after many letters and emails mysteriously disappeared because a) they were obviously trying to call my bluff and b) my solicitor is terrifyingly good at his job.

[Mito Man]

Sounds like ultimately losing their home and thus pissing off far away from you would be an ideal result.