Friday, 29 January 2010

Something positive (I hope)

We had a man come around to look at doing our bathroom, and after the last time and quote (12K) I was a bit apprehensive. This guy is someone his Lordship knows from a few years ago and we found him because our friend Dave just had him to finish work on his bathroom. Anyway, he came around and I was very impressed with him, and his no nonsense approach. He's a property developer who does up his own buildings and some fairly big contracts. He also said we could go and check out work he's already done for people, and Dave said he was extremely happy with what he'd done at his house.

He talked about doing all sorts of things, such as lowering the very high ceiling and putting in fans and stuff as well as tiling etc... It all sounded like exactly what we want but it all came down to price. In the end he came back with a price of around 2.5K, I nearly fell off my chair, so needless to say we're going ahead and could be started as early as next week depending on when we can get the new suite! So, it could even be ready for when the parentals come back from Oz. I can't wait, especially as the start of this year's been awful, it's something to look forward to!

Shingles update: The pain is almost all gone except for the odd twinge now and then, and it's hard getting to sleep at night because I can't get comfortable with my hip. I'm a bit itchy, but I guess that's just how it goes. I'm off the anti-virals too now which is brilliant because they made me a bit weird and useless! I was going to go back to work today but his Lordship insisted I had the rest of the week off just to make sure I'm 100% for Monday.

1 comment:

Mike Saif said...

That's a big difference in quotes. We have had three quotes for ours and they are all within 25% of each other. I would be wary of either the expensive or the cheap quote depending on who they were.