Well its been an age since I’ve been able to post with so many problems with the house and nowhere to set up the computer! Here we are a couple of months on and we achieved a lot but there is a thick layer of dust everywhere and not one room is done completely.
I decided that to get started the first thing to do was clean the house of the previous owners rubbish and general filth once that was done I decided that I had to paint the house from top to bottom with white paint so that I could get a feel for the light in the house. The colours used by the previous owners were very strong and really unpleasant shades, in my opinion dirty mustard yellow should never be used in a home especially on a ceiling! And who’d have thought you could fill a black bin liner with dog hair and human hair! YUCK!
I highly recommend buying in a job lot of white paint and doing the same even if you plan on totally replastering of course if you aren’t living in the house during renovations then you may be able to just get tradesmen in to rewire, replumb and replaster but since we can’t afford to do that the white paint does mean that the rooms we are living in at present don’t make me feel sick all the time! 
All the windows in the house are in need of replacement and we’ve had a number of seriously stormy days and I’ve been worried that the glass is going to fall out as so much of the putty is missing! So its been a long job getting numerous people round to look and quote for new windows as the house has 14 windows so its not going to be a cheap job and is going to take up a good portion of our budget. My next post will be a look at the different quotes that I received and how a decision was reached for which company to use.
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