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Mr_Sworld
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Apart from trawling through 200 pages of this, are there any good reference points for 'shit you need to do when you buy your first house'. (And specifically the order in which these things are done).
Things we want to do laid out below:
Priority:
Living Room:
Remove faux brick effect thing from one wall in the living room (appears to be coarse plaster with weird half bricks stuck onto it).
Plaster that up so it's nice and smooth, plaster the rest of the walls and ceilings if required.
Install shelving into two alcoves around a fire place (actually built into the wall ideally rather than with supports brackets).
Paint.
Rip up 40 year old carpet and install wooden flooring (a note: we like hard under foot. This is ground floor - how can we get that 'school hall' feel? Something solid underneath? Thicker wood? Engineered vs solid etc? What about upstairs if we decide to have wood throughout?)
Less Urgent:
Living Room:
Install a wood burner in the fireplace (which is currently occupied with maybe some kind of gas fire). I understand this will mean gutting the fireplace and installing 'liner' up the chimney (and then getting some kind of certification from someone with some kind of permit for such things so the council don't cry). Query: If we did this at a later date how much of a ball-ache are we talking? I.e. how much paint, plaster and pristine flooring will we ruin getting it installed? Worth sucking it up to do it all at once?
Install new lighting and electric points (or, like the flooring, are these substantial jobs that will wreck a lot of the nice paint/plaster etc that can't be easily covered up at a later date and thus need stumping up for early on?)
Kitchen:
Remove everything from the kitchen (which is currently very long and has lots of work surface) and replace with a shorter more efficient work surface/hob area and room for a dining area.
Continued from above, new cabinets, oven, sink, extractor etc. (Perhaps this means extending gas supply for the oven from its current position to new one and extending plumbing for sink relocation and various electric points).
Install wooden flooring (the kitchen joins the living room mentioned above - maybe it's worth laying the flooring at the same time? But then we can't really do that until the units are installed? Or can we and we just accept we waste some of it when the cabinets/oven etc go in?)