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Lots of action at the moment, shame it's good and bad.
We should be moving in in a couple of weeks. We have to whether it's ready or not really, but the job has become much bigger and more expensive than anticipated, partly because our builder seems to have a tendency to under quote, and partly because successive discoveries about the condition parts of the house have got worse and worse - finding out the chimney stack in the extension (over what will be the kitchen) was being held up by some 2x4 and 4 rusty nails, for example. The floorboards probably aren't salvageable either without huge added expense so I think we're going to go with engineered wood flooring instead.
The total cost of purchase plus works is still set to come in under the budget we had for buying a place ready to move into, so I suppose it should work out in the end.