Owning your own home

Our neighbours just got quoted £3.5k just for the wall, which doesn't seem like great value :(

Doesn't sound wildly off price wise though.

Little walls are a fucker.

We made a mistake by not getting a short section of ours done when a neighbours builder had a spot and spare matching bricks.

Basically the prep and cleanup work means you're effectively paying a premium for a small job.

Yeah figured prep and disposal is a large chunk of that.

neighbours getting it done forces our hand, annoyingly.

How do I tell them that using red brick is going to look shit and too matchy-matchy with their gaff. I think sand - like Stevos - is the right thing to do.

Interpretive dance?

What's with the floating mini fence? Is there a side gate I can't see?

We just did our front wall ourselves for about £600, 4m x 1.5m (not load bearing or anything, just a tidy double skinned wall with 4 pillars and stone caps). Brick laying isn't difficult, but time consuming.

If I was time rich I'd have at it.

TBH I'd love to do that but in our case it need to be retaining at the bottom due to height differences and cutting back a slab that they've put on our land, and effectively recovering what has been annexed. The latter I feel is best delt with by a 3rd party so it doesn't feel like we're kicking their space.

I think probably one of the challenges is all of the different colours/newness - visually it's quite busy. If you can't take it back to brick then anything other than white is unlikley to help (though understand colour isn't your domain!). It's also all bedding in. Regardless it's gone from a sad house to a happy house from the outside :)

Doesn't seem wild, would be what a week's work to be done properly + materials? If it's built into a bigger quote as @stevo_com was then it will be better value as they'll be disposing of waste, breaking things up, mixing cement etc.

We're moving back in on Thursday and in slight panic about how much is still left to do at our place!

Mad that we’re so much in parallel. Moving in next week and it’s defo still a building site.

Yes, metal gate below the wooden gate topper.

Im discussing how to make barriers to barricade Bo into certain rooms and not play with all of the power tools still lying around.
Also some stairs would be handy !

Also ofc Thursday is raining, so speaking with movers to make sure furniture doesn't get wet and floors don't get muddy...

Why not paint it gastropub grey?

Make it look very on trend, it’ll be fun, I dare you.

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Just grow something on it. Generally it all needs to weather a bit and stop looking box-fresh. I suspect the dull light is particularly unflattering in the second picture as well.

Putting an offer in on a place today, haven’t played this game in 4.5 years and really not looking forward to the next few months of it

really not looking forward to the next 18 months of it

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We’re working out how to keep our cat out the paint trays 🤣

Can you not tell them to stick it and ask for a refund? Seems a shambles.

Can you not tell them to stick it and ask for a refund? Seems a shambles.

unlikely they'll return money for work they're saying they've done.

though maybe letting them know that next step is for you to contact your bank to recover the money may give them a nudge

Probs, they are on a win win. At first i thought you were being impatient but it seems as its went on the thing has turned into a frace

Brick laying isn't difficult, but time consuming.

My grandad was a brick layer. He used to say any fool could do it, but it took skill to do it quickly.

This is why it's sometimes a good reason to get full fat surveys commissioned at the same time as the mortgage valuation through your lender. #1 They're eager to get surveys back within certain timescales too and #2 any issues and you can just send a CEO complaint into the lender (which get taken seriously at my place...)