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Post by robertarthur on Jun 26, 2022 12:30:59 GMT 1
@ JohnnyD, a job well done.
@ Mysty2, I've witnessed a gradual and steady decline in renovation related questions and reports on many forums here in France. Turning point probably the financial crisis in 2008 for everybody. I don't mention the B-word.....
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Post by pcpa on Jun 26, 2022 17:19:40 GMT 1
I'm too busy doing it to write about it, plus I lost all the photos on the phone memory card and now the phone wont recognise the new one.
Come too think of it even if I could take photos posting them on this forum was too many hoops to jump through.
It's a sad day when decorating passes for renovation but with the cost of materials now, more fool me!
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Post by flober on Jun 28, 2022 10:00:40 GMT 1
PCPA,it's the same as saying self build when you have paid a company to build your house,I saw that on another forum an fell about laughing.
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Post by pcpa on Jun 28, 2022 10:56:18 GMT 1
The pair of developers who built a new house on the half of my UK garden that I sold with planning permission could not even assemble an Ikea bookcase, actually that is setting the bar too high, they could not put up a curtain rail or wire a 3 pin plug.
One was a bricklayer (I suspect for a very short period, maybe a summer job), the other was an estate agent.
Yet I cannot fault the house they built, the had absolutely superb contractors, not big firms but either father & son teams or pairs of self employed, they was loyalty in both directions built up over a decade, they even delayed the whole build by é months waiting for their groundworker father & son team.
The day I can start choosing paint & wallcovering colours & dig out my paintbrushes etc will be the day I consider this renovation/rebuild finished.
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Post by Nifty on Jun 28, 2022 11:25:28 GMT 1
I wish that I knew more about the ‘developers’ or shady characters who have built dozens of houses on land that was the garden of the places that I have lived in over the years. I remember that my mum and dad were made-up when they sold a house In 1970 for 2.5 k more than they paid for it in 1967. It now has a massively smaller garden it is worth over 600 K. I can’t begin to think how much has been spent and made out of the houses that were built in the garden and adjoining neighbours gardens.
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Post by landmannnn on Jun 28, 2022 14:17:42 GMT 1
It's interesting that while a pound in 1965 was about 20 times more valuable than today, house prices have have vastly exceeded that in some areas. My MILs house is about 150 times more than the mid 60s value, my mums about 100 times.
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Post by pcpa on Jun 28, 2022 17:22:59 GMT 1
All I need to do is sell my house, put the cash in my pocket and go back in time, the 60's would be just right for me now!
The money I recieved for selling half the garden in the UK bought my new property in France with as much left over again for the renovation and development of the plot.
I would have ended up with twice as much had I had done the housebuild myself, project managed that is not the doing, but how much grief can one person support in a lifetime? I would not have had the good contractors that the developers used nor the knowledge to know exactly when to throw a subby off the site before costly rework was required.
Losing half the garden and having a new house next door did not devalue the main house one penny but I did have to wait till the work was completed before putting it on the market again, it sold immediately.
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Post by JohnnyD on Oct 21, 2022 16:33:39 GMT 1
Trying to get some pics together of before and after rooms we are working on, so will add to this constantly........
Living room......
Oh, I cant do it this way, its a max of 3 pics per post.......
Here is the latest of the living room with the floors sanded and waxed......
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Post by limousinlady on Oct 21, 2022 16:55:41 GMT 1
What a difference that floor makes!
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Post by spectrum on Oct 22, 2022 13:09:59 GMT 1
Could the reason for a decline in renovations is that a lot have been there done that, and dont want to do it again, too old or too broke. I know that I would not be able to lift blocks and move 600kgs beams about, so content to stay in this house.
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Post by gigi on Oct 22, 2022 13:37:16 GMT 1
Johnny D, it looks lovely - well done!
We did quite a lot in this house from total rewiring onwards, but have reached the stage where we just can’t do much. At least a couple of rooms need to be redecorated but it’s beyond us - even moving the furniture seems a huge task. I think that the time of covid has left us much less fit generally; at 76 things seemed achievable, but at 78 it’s all too much, and finding someone to employ to do it is so difficult around here.
Even an exercise bike the family bought me for my birthday last month, as I’m hoping we’ll get more exercise, seems beyond us - a piece has to be removed, according to the instructions, which Reebok themselves say needs a lot of strength. Our son is coming round this afternoon, so hopefully this can be achieved.
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Post by JohnnyD on Oct 22, 2022 13:49:46 GMT 1
Yes I know exactly how you feel, Covid meant we are nearly 3 years behind were we wanted to be (we bought Dec 2019), and even at 61, its getting harder by the month......so having a real push this next year to get stuff done.........
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Post by pcpa on Oct 22, 2022 13:58:16 GMT 1
Amen to that! It's the loss of 3 years and the difficulty of getting started and motivated again after 3 years of enforced inactivity, just when I was getting there I catch covid
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Post by jardiniere on Oct 22, 2022 14:26:02 GMT 1
Here is the latest of the living room with the floors sanded and waxed......
Beautiful floor. Job well done!
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Post by gigi on Oct 22, 2022 14:34:55 GMT 1
Sorry, a repeat as my last post didn’t seem to have appeared but it has!
A really lovely result, Johnny.
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