big tings a'gwan chez garold - hope it all goes smoothly for you pal

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:36, archived)

It's getting there
we've done a lot of work ourselves so it's ... okay. The original walls in this place are 5cm thick and filled with kind of rolls of cardboard - the days before building regs when the tories were pushing cheap house building like mad. Anyway, we wanted a proper fire door between the kitchen and the living room so we added some studding, insulation and plasterboard, fitted a new door and frame (fucking palaver, the door sizes in this house aren't standard so had to widen the gap). We got it plastered at the same time as the extension, not gonna try THAT myself.

I put ceiling lights in the old part of the kitchen too. They look ace.

The floor we put down in the extension isn't perfect - the screed the builders laid isn't bang-on and we didn't have time to go to town with any self-levelling compound. I guess a few years down the line we could maybe pay someone to do a proper job but it's fine for now.

This is why I was miffed about the living room floor, we thought of maybe replacing it in a few years with something nice, if it gets replaced now with like-for-like it won't really be ideal. The money to cover the cost would be though...
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:43, archived)

maybe get a discount on the worktops rather than getting the floor fixed?

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:45, archived)

It'll like be an insurance claim
they'll ask me to complete a form, forward it to their insurers who may send an adjuster out to assess the cost of repairing it. It's a big firm, they probably have this issue from time-to-time and just follow a procedure.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:47, archived)