chris_uk
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I cant actually believe ive finally taken the plunge and bought my first house 
Its a 2 bed semi bungalow with 2 dormas. Quite small but will be fine for me the missis and the cat  .
Here are some pics
And the most important part
So far we have given the kitchen and bathroom a massive clean, tomorow i plan on starting to paint the living room and removing the wall paper in the back room. Were going to paint it ivory white for now just as a base so we can decide what we want to do later
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Paul_J
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Looks nice mate, that'd be at least £300k down here if not more.
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Dave
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That toilet seat would drive me mental!
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John
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Just had a quick look and there's loads of 4 bed detached for 300k within a 10 mile radius of crowthorne.
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chris_uk
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave
That toilet seat would drive me mental!
its loose, i need to sort it out.
there is a list just getting longer and longer for the stuff i need to sort..
that bath seat
plug on the bathroom sink doesnt work
shower screen rubber at the bottom needs replacing
light in the roof needs a new bulb
radiator towel rack is leaking so we need to look at that
worktop in kitchen needs bracing
worktop needs a new silicone bead running across it
cooker needs another scrub
tiles in kitchen need re grouting
radiator needs another coat of paint
really thats all that needs doing inthe bathroom and kitchen.. all the other rooms just need a paint.
then in summer i can look at extending my garage and sorting the gardens out.
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Jakey
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Looks lovely that mate!
Do you mind me asking where you live and how much?
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chris_uk
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Leeds, we got it for £124,999
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Jakey
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Nice! About the same as round here really, looks pretty much perfect, enjoy!
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Just had a quick look and there's loads of 4 bed detached for 300k within a 10 mile radius of crowthorne.
paul j thinks that you cant move more than 2 roads away from your parents'.
really nice looking bungalow chris, that bathroom looks great aswell. living the dream of house and car.
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chris_uk
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plans today are to build some more storage space off the bedroom and see how the paper will cover with paint in the living room, if it covers badly im going to have to take the paper off and paint the walls.
In the back room im going to have to remove the paper as its dirty and textured so ill have to get cracking with that also.
Now the kitchen is clean i can start getting all the kitchen stuff put away etc.
I need to tell dreams to deliver my bed.
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AK
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Looks nice mate, that'd be at least £300k down here if not more.
where did that come from 
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chris_uk
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Me and paul were talking about house prices not too long ago, his comment was relating back to that convo.
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John
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Paint over paper always looks terrible, you'll be in for a world of pain if the paper brings half the wall off with it though 
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Bart
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congrats, thats a great looking house.
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chris_uk
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We decided to try and paint over the paper to see what it looked like, the paper isnt textured so i got 10L of paint for free so i thought it was worth a go..
Here are the pics so far
Living room non textured paper.
Back room, all textured oaper ripped off.
And i dont know who fitted the radiator but damn.. Blind!
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Ben G
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our radiator in the bedroom was like that, it had fallen off the bracket at the back.
paint over wallpaper doesnt look too bad tbh, easier than stripping it all.
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Daniel_Corsa
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First job I'd be doing is plastering over the artex before decorating!
Looks a nice place, can't beat having a garage, I plan to extend mine into a double at some point.
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chris_uk
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To be honest the artex isnt as bad as i thought so im just going to leave it i think for now.
Latest update.
Filled in the holes etc ready for painting.
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chris_uk
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I just nipped to the house this morning to do a couple things. First we needed a new cylinder for the front door so we got one and swapped that over, plus.. Who knows who had a copy of the original key..
Next on the agenda was to sort out the worktop so i pulled out the sink, packed it up then moved the units feet until we were back level then re siliconed the worktop in.
I also cleaned up around the sink so we can re-seal it up. You can see whoever put the kitchen in was the same person who did the radiator because nothing is squared.
I then cleaned up the silicon which was under the sink so we could get a good seal again.
I need to go back tonight, give the living room and stairs another coat and then hopefully i can look at the back room.
Toilet needs to come out so i can sort the seat out, it looks like it has captive nuts in the toilet but they are just spinning. Grr! Stupid design!
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Nismo
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Looking good! i love new projects 
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Gary
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Still up top where you used to live?
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chris_uk
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Yea, about a mile away.
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Gary
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Kkk, nice area.
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chris_uk
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Yea, cant grumble lol.
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chris_uk
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Today we have ripped the fireplace out so we have somewhere to run the cables for the tele.
We have also given the lounge another coat of paint, hopefully thats its last coat!
We started sanding the back room down now in prep for paint, all the holes etc have been filled so were going to give it a coat of paint tomorrow
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