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I started adulting when I moved out, but Cambridge was too expensive so I'm back to being 15 and live with my parents.
However, I'm soon (before Christmas hopefully) going to be self employed so that'll be a bit more adulty. Although only part time as I'm not in a position where I can afford to not guarantee some money coming in. So still a bit 15.
Just found out I'm going to be a Dad in 8 months
You've lived in your gaff for a while and know exactly what is and isn't wrong with it. I'm guessing it's also habitable and comfortable? You now get the opportunity to change it on your own terms but you're starting from a better base than me, and I guess a number of other people.
Tl;dr - win-win for you, enjoy it in your own time. And mortgage debt doesn't count
It's a very standard square-block middle eastern apartment at the moment. Off-white walls, tiled floors throughout, and a dull-as-fuck kitchen. Plan would be to get new kitchen cabinet fronts pretty quickly, paint a few walls, replace all the single-outlet sockets with doubles (with USBs), and then look at getting wood floors and tweaking the bathroom a bit.
We'll see...!
I bought a house, well the bank mostly did so far, a couple of months ago. I thought that it needed no work. Two months and one housewarming party later I am still sorting stuff out.
This week I'm swapping out the fluorescent strip light in the kitchen for spots.
Then the shed needs doing.
Or maybe the conservatory needs tinkering with.
Great news Mike. Congratulations too!!
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The good old thing is we've been living in it for 3 years so we know exactly what we want to do and why, which is good
Anyway. My top DIY tip: if you have a carpet fitter coming first thing Monday which gives you Sunday to finish painting the living room, don't go out on the lash Saturday night.
I think we're pretty confident we know what we're doing but I am very willing to hear all the basic stuff that may not have occurred to us..!
Bottom line: No rows about will something fit.
Oh, and I've been married for long enough now for my wife to accept that I have better spatial awareness than she does, so if I say it won't fit, it won't fit, and vice versa.
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My fault really, was being a bit laissez faire and not pulling the fuse before I loosened a socket plate to see what was behind. Whoever fitted the socket clearly didn't own a screwdriver, the live was unsecured, hit either the neutral or earth terminal screws on the back of the socket, bingo - heart rate in the high 200's. It didn't exactly calm down after I checked the fuse and found the aforementioned. It was like the beginning of an episode of Casualty
The outside light has a short to earth that had eventually caused a small fire. A very simple rewire was all it needed, rather than a 15A fuse in a 5A holder...
I'm tempted to change the whole board to an RCD one, currently it's just the upstairs showers and the cooker that are RCD, apart from the big master one.
On a related note,a friend of mine once blew an 80A fuse when he managed to short the wires connecting the house to the grid with a drill bit! Drill was double insulated thankfully so no damage done.