Friday, May 01, 2009

Second Fix carpentry

Well i got the two lads who did the roof, back to do this for me. They are from down home, but stayed in an old cottage up here during the weeks they were completing the work. They had to put down timber floors in every room upstairs and downstairs with the exception of tiles to the kitchen entrance hall and all bathrooms, we went for mostly laminate as we had spoke to several people about solid or engineered timber and they all spoke about how easily scratehed and damaged it is, so we decided to use laminate and down the line put down solid timber in some of the rooms. The two lads were four weeks at the second fix there was a lot of work there, as they had to batten with 3x2 all the ground floors and ply on top of that and then floor on top of that, all the doors frames skirting architrave shelving to office and four walk in wardrobes, beams in the sitting room and so on it cost me €12,000 which seems to me as maybe a bit expensive it was the finishing of the house that proved the dearest and most time consuming part of it, it was at this stage that the size 4,350sqft really started to tell on our pockets!! :(

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