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S1 EP 18 | The £100k Bungalow Renovation - End of weeks 11 & 12
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The roof carpentry is complete, the building inspector is happy and the roofer begins tomorrow - it's getting serious now at the £100k bungalow! Nick and Dan also discuss how Nick has let the bungalow become in his words "a disgrace", how much Nick received from the scrap company for all of the copper and a last minute layout change.
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Introduction to DIY Guys Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the DIY guys the podcast where home renovations, power tools and mild panic go hand in hand. I'm Nick Morris. And I'm Dan Doher. Each week we'll be chatting with some property pros, some DIY diehards, hopefully help you with some tips and tricks along the way.
00:00:17
Speaker
Welcome back to the DIY Guys podcast. As always, I'm Dan and I'm joined by my good friend Nick. How's things, mate? You alright? Very well. How are you, buddy? Yeah, not too bad. Thank you. Not too bad. How have you been? What have you been up to?
00:00:31
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um Today's been one of those days, put tell people at home, we're recording after hours now, aren't we? It's sort of like nearly nine o'clock at night. Yeah. That's been one of those days where I've just done too much multitasking. Some of it for the bungalow, which is good to chat about later. But literally, I like dropped Lydia off, my daughter, to her nanny and granddad's this morning before before work. Nice. Came back to my house. i've got I'm doing a building outdoor barbecue, yeah which you're going to get an invite to at some point. I'll talk talk about that again later. I was waiting for some cedar wood to come for that.
00:01:04
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I did that before work. And then ah went over to the bungalow and finally got rid of all the scrap.
Dealing with Builders and Renovation Chaos
00:01:10
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Nice. Because again, I'll go into this in much more detail later, but the bungalow was an absolute disgrace there yesterday and I had like a meltdown. So I just like, I need to do something to tidy up. I decided to rip out all the copper and come and scrap that. Was it you that made it an absolute disgrace? Yes. Or is it, can you blame other people? No, I can i think it's mostly me with like a 20% builder blame. Well, I've just been like going there after work, doing a bit, leaving it, ripping up boards in the loft, wiring it, leaving it, leaving it. And then you suddenly look around like, I wouldn't want to work in this. No. Soon it's all going to be going off. I'm surprised because you're always so tidy. like I know. know I haven't seen you on all the jobs, but you are so mega clean. but I've been doing so many weird like couple of hours here, two hours there. Today, for example, then the last job was go to my brother's job. and He's got a garden room at the moment in Kent. um He's building.
00:02:02
Speaker
I went and rewired that. um So wired that yeah from this new, so brand new. And then after work, Emily's out with work. So then i had to pick up Lydia from Nanny and Grandaz, put her to bed, then call you and say, come over now, do this. So I'm a bit rattled. um So yeah, it's been one of those like manic days. I'm just like trying to like decompress. I rest for the wicked.
00:02:25
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Yeah, exactly. and ever Yeah, usually I'm super, super, super tidy. Yeah. um But oh my God, I was there yesterday. It's just is bad in every room. And what's my fault about it is I've just crashed.
00:02:38
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ah It's my brother phoning me on FaceTime. Oh, Mo. Oh, what's he doing? What's he doing? I won't answer. Hold on. I think we're still good. this is still We can still go on with this. It's fine. it just Did your phone do that when it comes up on the laptop when you get a phone? No, I haven't got my link. Oh, see, I should have done that.
00:02:56
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Rookie. So why is he phoning me this late? It's got to be about the garden room today. Yeah, it's got to. be or maybe he wants to be on the podcast maybe he wants to be on the podcast i think it's um we're doing this He built this like awesome like bespoke TV unit thing. Oh, yeah. And I did the same on his garden room. wants little cool LED lights in the niches and stuff like that. He probably wants to discuss that, hopefully. yeah He loves a phone
Financial Frustrations in Renovation Projects
00:03:20
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call, doesn't he? loves a phone call. Hopefully, there's nothing else. yeah and But, yeah, I think most of the mess of the bungalow is totally my fault because and the last couple of weeks, I've ripped off the radios, like I told you. Nice, yeah. And being an electrician dealing with plumber,
00:03:34
Speaker
I did everything, you know, not how a plumber would do it. But i've finally lost patience with like my old boy. I think I told you guys that I've got a quote from a new plumber. Yeah. That didn't include ripping out. So I've been ripping it out. And like anything, I'm like, oh, these pipes are empty. Cool. But then something goes, all a sudden here, a little bit of air escapes there, water to there. So I've literally had water in both the original bedrooms, like all over the floor everywhere. God. And I finally got rid of all those pipes that are dangling down, you know, where the old cupboard was in the middle. But again, obviously I did it with like 80% class and 20% chaos. So just like loads of water everywhere.
00:04:12
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And then I removed all of them in the loft as well with ah only a little bit of water came out there because it was like gravity fed so it all dropped down. Yeah, yeah. But it's just been, so I've been making loads of mess. And then I think the builders have been making a little bit of mess as well because i think there hasn't been a skip there for a while.
00:04:29
Speaker
okay yeah and i've been kind of playing like skip chicken with the builder so i'm like surely he needs one to finish but then also he knows that i need one definitely you know i've got like four or five months left here so was like maybe he'll get one and hold out and he's presumably just doing the same or it's just been two beers do it i god damn it i went and did it oh you broke so annoying and it's more expensive now they've got bloody fuel surcharge it's like don't you hate surcharges and things like that. Yeah, yeah. Just so nice. just Everything should be in the price. Exactly. is that
Home Renovation Decisions and Progress
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All this like Iran stuff that like suddenly there's an extra terror on it. Yeah. but I was like,
00:05:05
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pretty sure I read that one of these um skip companies last year, someone told me both directors took a £6 million pound dividend. I think you can take the £10. Yeah, you can take a shot for that. I think it's just another excuse to like rack up the prices. know, right. Yeah. Well, i saw something today that ah BP's profits have doubled since the Iran war. It's so annoying. It's like the COVID stuff. Yeah, exactly.
00:05:29
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It's so annoying. So, yeah, I finally got a skip. And then I was like, right, I'm going to start from the loft up. So I've cleared the loft, but I haven't done anything else. But even like all the pipes had lagging on and had taped, it was like the incredible Hulk to tape them well. I had to get a saw on every bit. Oh, wow. Because I left my knife on another job. So again, this is all a bit me being a bit chaotic when I'm usually not that chaotic. No, yeah. So I had all the lagging up there. I got rid of some the old insulation because it had all been like flowing out. And then the loft, I got rid of Gran's old suitcases. couple of those like,
00:06:02
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You know, old people always have those leather old suitcases. Yeah, yeah. they're much better than the crap we buy. Yeah, that's true. Because clearly they're still working. Yeah. But the same time, I'm like, unfortunately, they're to have to go to the skip because I'm not in good condition.
00:06:14
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They are in good condition. There's no way I'd be like, we're going on a stag do you think? There's no way I'm rocking up this shitty old leather. It would be amazing. Exactly. It's probably like, Gran never bought anything in the last 30 years of her life. So presumably like 60 years old or something. Wow, yeah.
00:06:29
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You might get good money. like so I know. I mean, to be fair, they that they're not in the skip yet. So maybe I could look up. But she did have a box of books and things and old photos and stuff that I've taken back to my mom and dad's to go through eventually. Yeah, yeah. um But yeah, that so Loft is like clearer and I'm going you know, the old plastic water tank.
00:06:50
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Yeah. There's a plastic water tank up there and a metal water tank up there. So I'm going to get rid of the plastic one next week by chopping that in half out Yeah. And then the metal one, I'm just like deliberating over because I should do it. It's a complete ballade. So morally, I'm like, I'm going to do it. yeah then I'm like, will I actually do it? Yeah. It's annoying that when you took the ceilings down, there weren't a big enough gap to just chuck it. I know, no, because they didn't take off enough roof tiles or anything, either going out the side, anything like that.
00:07:19
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But I think I want to do it just in case a viewer looks up in a lot, which I don't think happened, but I have looked up in a few lots. Yeah. And it's just like a better impression. think everyone right? Yeah. And it probably makes the plumber's life easier to do neat runs and stuff if don't have to go around anything. So, I'm probably going to do that. I know you, it'll be like playing on your mind if you don't do it. Exactly. they got there So the moral high ground is annoying. You should just give less of a shit. I know. God it.
00:07:52
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But yeah, so it's been going well, but don't know if you've told you a little bit about what's going on, but my note one is that my builder, Toby, who you know very well, listens to this podcast. was going to say, we've got a VIP listener, Toby. I'm devastated by this. I said really early on, I don't mind talking about them because I think one of them asked once, like, do you have to pay for a podcast and stuff like that? They've never listened to podcasts. He said he was on a really long train journey, then a bus journey. He was fed up of his music,
DIY Challenges vs. Hiring Professionals
00:08:20
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so he started listening to it. And he was cracking up. And I was like, man. I was like, what one were you listening to? And he was like, oh, the one when Dave went to Disneyland and he had a week off and there no work. And then Dave asked for like 12K or something. And I was like, oh, God, that's like the most negative I've spoken about yet. I promise, I've only praised you and I've got no stress with you and it's all good. But you picked like the two-minute section where we've said anything negative. And he's going to list all of them now. And I'm like, oh, goddammit, that really affects how feel, like, moving forward. So I'm already being so transparent with, like, money and stuff. I just don't want to do this now. Yeah. But we can still slag off that. Yeah. He did like the fact that I said that, basically, Toby seems to be doing all the work and Dave just, like... flitters in and out between other jobs. At the moment, even Dave today was on our kitchen job, installing that kitchen, and Toby was at my job alone again. And I said to him, God, it's actually really hard being on his own. He's been up on the roof by himself, and he'd be like, oh,
00:09:21
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I'll be up there, you'll drop like a drill bit or something, you'll be like, oh, and you'll go down the little support, down the ladder, pick up the drill bit, go back up. It's like, oh. And then realise it's the wrong drill bit. Yeah, exactly. so yeah, we've got a VIP listener in Tobi who is um my tremendous builder. Yeah, yeah. No the qualms about him, my lovely man, probably a nice man i've ever met. Takes holiday at the right time. Well, not really, we're just saying same time as day. Yeah, true, yeah. Nothing got done. So I don't know whether to call this week 12 week 11 because week 11, guys, nothing happened. Yeah. And yet I still had to pay out money.
00:09:56
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Yeah. So we're going to keep it real and we're to say it is the end of week 12. Yes. Which it actually is, ah even if Nick hasn't been doing anything. Yeah. I've done a day and a half this week, which is not bad. Yeah. And I've actually got like a little bit of motivation from it, from being like, You know, sometimes when you're away from something and so sight um mind and then you go there, you're like, oh, I could actually do like this, this and this now. Yeah. So starting to get my head around a few things I can do, which is cool. and Get that going. And I even thought, well, just like a bit of behind the scenes, you send me like a list of stuff that you're like thinking about discussing this week. And I was like, Well, actually, Nick has like proper smashed it out this way. It probably doesn't look, oh, I'd say most of the stuff is builder related. Yeah, true. Toby has smashed it out this way. Yeah, Dave. Just reiterate, not Dave. Hopefully he can't listen to a podcast. Otherwise he'll just like double the price of everything moving forward. But yeah, so my brother came round on Monday or Tuesday, I think it was. We did like a site survey on another one of his jobs. I was like, can I grab you? Yeah. um And we've changed the layout around. I'll try and describe it as best as possible for like listeners. But the utility is in the back of the new extension and the kitchen is like next to it, but in the old house. oh And I was going to put a door between the two because in my house, I think it's really convenient to be like in the kitchen. But say you've got like a horrible burnt pan or something. You go and take a utility room sink.
00:11:19
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and let it like sit in there or whatever. yeah um And I just realized that is a bit of a luxury, but actually it would sort of muck up the whole kitchen layout, Chris and I decided, because you're putting a door on like a full wall that could just run straight in, and that full wall can give you anything. It could give you...
00:11:36
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We're thinking maybe be a whole wall of tall units from like end to end sort of thing or you know anything. It could even be like a stick out breakfast bar, not that we're thinking of that, but it actually limits us by having this door in there. So Chris was like, why didn't just have the door in the extension where you were originally going to have it, where you walk through to this extension, there's a new bathroom, new ensuite, new bedroom, and then at the other end, the utility. He was like... So what? You go to utilities, do like laundry and stuff. What yeah I'm just describing is quite like rare just to randomly go in there for a pot and pan type of thing. Yeah, I suppose like I don't think we use it
00:12:11
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Similar to what you just said, we've got a light washing machine, tumble dryer, um much to Christy's annoyance. I wash my golf clubs in there. I didn't do that. I never wash my glove So, um yeah, but I don't think we really use it that much for kitchen-related stuff. yeah Maybe we should do, but no, it it does feel like a separate room and and it's used for anything that we don't want to use like the kitchen sink for. Oh, that's interesting. That's what my brother's really good at. I think this is one of my qualities. that i'm I'm good at listening to others, especially yeah if a carpenter comes around and invites me to do that. Generally, I'm like, oh, okay, cool. You know better than me. and I think he's right. I think it would really like disrupt the flow of the room.
00:12:53
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yeah um It's hard because when you put tall units, it's good to have like a flat run, I think. but Because then if you think about a return of a tall unit, like a corner unit, they start to get a bit lumpy money and they sometimes don't look that good and where does the work top butt up to? yeah And then Chris was like, I think visually walking through the kitchen door and on your left just this like tall bank and then you can have the fridge, the freezer, ovens, all in one thing. think it gives you more options, right? Yeah. And then we
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00:13:20
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also said that does that little triangle that everyone's always banging on about where we've got like the, we could have the hob on one.
00:13:26
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if if you picture it almost like a big C or U, say U, you could have the hob on one section. You could have like the oven and the fridge and the freezer and the microwave on the other section. yeah And then the furthest section, which is the back of Gran's house, there'd be the sink.
00:13:42
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andvan Everyone always says that's like the triangle is what you want for like getting to everything quickly, like dishwasher and everything. um So I was oh God, okay, that does actually make sense. And that means the consequences of that are I told Builder Dave and Toby to put a back door in the utility. So i need to they need to block that up. Okay, yeah. Because they're going to keep the back door in the kitchen as is. Okay, interesting. And again, i was like, yeah, that does actually...
00:14:07
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Because obviously, if you imagine we had the back door in the utility room, but you couldn't get to it via the kitchen, that would be a pain in the arse, wouldn't Yeah, yeah. to the garden drinks or whatever. Also, i don't know about your utility, but we use it like for like washing or whatever. And it's a room that we like that we can shut away. It'd be messy. So if people come round and there's loads of washing in there, you just shut the door. Oh, 100%, Yeah. but If you're like having a barbecue, for example, and you're like in and out of the kitchen and you've got to go through the utility. Exactly. I think you're right. Yeah, you're totally right as well, actually, because Emily just launches everything on the floor. It winds me up. She's like, I'm like, is that clean or dirty? See, I'm that person. Chrissy's like come down she's like you'd done the washing was like have yeah it's like there's just stuff everywhere I just have to pick up and smell it and I just like a weirdo smelling everyone's clothes but I'm just like just don't know what it's clean but you're totally right it is so if you have people over get to the garden have to straight through utility room it'd be a blooming night so yeah that is that that is logical so yeah I think Chrissy's idea is good and it just means original back door can get changed over for a new one
00:15:10
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um I was like, oh, maybe we can keep the original back door then. I looked at it. I was like, oh, damn it. It's awful. I just can't see any way of like painting it or doing anything. to Is it wood or is it metal? It's metal. It's like aluminum. So it's probably like not the worst quality, but it's just so old fashioned. yeah i just don't know. It's like one of those things. You spend all that money on the kitchen. You don't want It'll just let it down. Well, I think where you're renovating the whole thing, if you leave something like that is old and looks old, then I feel like it does really just stick out.
00:15:41
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like If everything else is really smart and nice and then you've got an old door, then I think it might like stand out a bit, I suppose. Yeah, and I think i always keep watching. I'm sure you deserve it. You've got right move alerts. I love nosing on houses. And I've seen some in our area where like a semi-detached house can go from anything from like 550 up to like 1.25. And you're like, what on earth is going on with this 1.25? And you look at it and you're like, wow, it's just like 10 out 10, everything. Carpentry is all bespoke. And yeah you're like, i'll if you want to get the most money, you've got to try and hit those heights if you could afford to, toping or do the work yourself or whatever. Yeah, also I think when you live somewhere as well, you're like,
00:16:20
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you want it to look the best, don't you? Yeah. You know, and always think if you're doing something, you know, it's going to cost like an extra whatever, but you're like planning to live there and you're not renovating it just to sell it, then stuff like that will annoy you in the end. you Exactly. looking it like, oh, wish I'd done that in the end. Exactly. Yeah. So it all comes down to obviously budget and stuff. But back doors aren't too bad because we're going to have do the front door as well. And then I know these are small things, but like the keys don't work because, you know, Gran's been there 30 odd years and didn't do anything. And these things get wary. So I've just been speaking to Dave about what just needs to be blocked up now. it's quite cool. We're getting to that stage where he says he's going to be done in less than a month.
00:17:03
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Wow. um And it's against that. i was trying to say, so he's blocking up windows that were external previously, but now the extension's there sort of thing. Yeah, yeah. um So it doesn't have to make any opening now from the kitchen utility, but does have to make that hallway opening from what was the old bathroom, which is going to go into the extension, um which was the old garage. and then that's going to be going to the bedroom ensuite bathroom utility. Still a bit nervous about how like big or small these are gonna be. But I've done some pencil marks on the wall and you I'm not, you're like, oh, it's not horrendous, but you know, when it gets dot and dab pla and plastered, it just starts shrinking. So hopefully it'll be all right. No, I think, I think you normally like,
00:17:46
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especially if you're expecting it to be small and then the stud work well this was what it was like a mine the stud work went up and i was like oh actually this is like a yeah really decent space and like you know people were like oh it's got to be a meter or whatever and i think we were slightly smaller than a meter like for the walkway and like when you're like laying down the floor you're like oh that does feel tight but when it's in that actual room you don't even think like especially a utility Yeah, it'll be an ah important week next week, I think, because all the stud work's arrived for them to start. yeah um So doing all the extension stud work as part of the original like 50 grand-ish plus fat quote. um And I'm asked them to do...
00:18:24
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one piece of stud work you remember i told you about in the kitchen yeah um forming the new kitchen which i was going to do myself but it's actually trickier than i thought my brother's phoning me again unbelievable farm um obviously something seriously urgent i was going to say the garden room i did stays on fire but it's um it's not even wired in yet so can't be even worse if you somehow stay on fire without wire would almost be impressive it was on fire um So yeah, so, oh my god, what was I saying there? You're talking about the stud work? Yes. a bit complex. Yeah, I was going to do it, but the floor level was out where um I had to like chop down into the concrete. Yeah. um Because it was a wet room and they they had like drainage and stuff in there. So they definitely it's going to be more of like a skilled hand. And it's one of those economies of scale thing. They're like, they're going to be smashing that stud work up. yeah So again, just trust the guys that do it. like It will take them probably an hour it'll probably take me a day and a half or something. Especially if it is slightly more complex. Yeah. what mean? Because you're... I don't know about you, but I will always stand there and think about all the different routes you can do and stuff. that's like half a day in itself. Oh, exactly. And you just... You might make an error, make bad cuts and stuff. Yeah. yeah So it's much better. So yeah, but I have to...
00:19:39
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decide on those room sizes next week so I keep saying to myself the utility really does not need to be a big room so if you're going to sacrifice anything think the ensuite my ensuite upstairs is like a metre wide finished yeah so probably slightly bigger before plasterboard and stuff So in my head, I'm like, that meter wide is fine. You can get a good shower tray in there. There's plenty of room.
00:20:00
Speaker
Toilet naturally goes against the wall anyway, and it can be quite nicely done. But utility, I think, it just needs to able to have a tumble dryer and a washing machine and maybe like a sink if possible. Yeah. It doesn't need a lot to be like really amazing. So you're not talking like more than maybe a meter and a half, two meters or something. Yeah. think it'll all right.
00:20:19
Speaker
You sold me on the sink. and and Yeah, I'm definitely going to do it. It fits perfectly. and Yeah, got to be done. And the drain's right outside that like a window, it'd be easy. It's meant to Exactly, it's meant to be. So i I'm definitely going to do that. i've just got to make sure all those things fit in. and Because I just want the bedroom and the bathroom to be really like as wow as they can. Yeah, definitely. You've got to be able to get wardrobes in there. You've got to be good-sized bed and like maybe... like I don't know if a dressing table, but side tables, you know, it's got to be decent. Yeah, definitely. And like you say, like you can squeeze a bit of space out of these like smaller rooms, like the en suite, like you say. If you can get a shower and toilet in there, then that's the main thing. and Yeah. And then I'm getting really excited because... um The roofer. So today, building control was there.
00:21:07
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And it's funny with building control because they just must know good builders and bad builders and they must just get a feel and they mustn't get play relationships with people because they were almost like, I don't know why you're calling us sort of thing. They were just like, oh, at the end, just get in touch with us now. Oh, amazing. And I'm like, oh, really? Because I said to mentioned that we might do the porch that needs foundations and stuff but they they said to Toby today that's fine you guys know what you're doing just take photos along the way take photos of yeah the roof going on insulation going in And then that's what absolutely absolutely fine. Because i I think these people just walk in. you You've been on like jobs and stuff. You just know, well, this is dodgy builders or dodgy tradesmen. They must just know, right? Yeah, they must do. Well, I suppose if they've seen it a certain number of times. Exactly. They must know from experience that, oh, these people don't really know what they're doing. Exactly. Even though the house looks like an absolute bombsite. I guess that's kind of irrelevant. And the work's obviously good. Yeah, exactly. Because they've been working on the roof carpentry.
00:22:02
Speaker
like for so long admittedly toby's been doing a lot by himself but it's so involved when you're up there actually building my outdoor barbecue at the moment um we've used 40 lengths of like four by two wow jeez but you go up there and you're like that is just must be like triple it's just insane the amount of detail that goes in the skill to like build a roof is insane yeah i remember my carpenter said why don't you do the loft and do all the things yourself and i'm just like i've never done it how hell would i be able to do that and then just looking at the detail on this tiny roof i'm like no chance i could do it take me like five years and it'll be all wrong just falls down five years of my life yeah exactly so building control happy the roof's done so which means the roofer starts tomorrow nice which is awesome and that feels like a really good stage because now i can contact my window guy um i've already got the quote for that which was i don't know put it on the spreadsheet it's something like seven grand for
00:22:58
Speaker
the windows that originally there and the porch and stuff and he's done 3,000 what was it 3,500s worth so far so it'd probably be like the other half where it's the window in the kitchen window front window back um and then the porch work will be later down the line if we yeah decide what the hell to do yeah And back door. Yeah. And then that would be on top and front door would be on top as well, which could be, could be three grand maybe, hopefully less. But it depends which I have in you I go down because you can get some doors on like eBay and stuff, but it's like finding the right ones hard. Yeah, it is. We looked at that before and it's just like, suppose you get a wooden one, yeah then you can kind of cut it down a little bit suppose but like would that fit in with your style yeah and reason some people got rid of a lot of them is because they're not fire rated and stuff like that so got to make sure it's all done properly but sometimes you can get absolute gems doing that um and i really like my front door but everyone told me i overpaid spent like two years i thought i'm doing a bargain i got this off and i got this off and found this deal and everyone's like how much you pay for that was two they're two and a half grand you could have got it and i was like what so clearly on that one just got carried away with the color or something and i need to like look into more so hopefully i can get like don't go back to the same yeah i know well i really like it still but apparently everyone thinks i could have got it cheaper somehow i don't know maybe if i painted it myself or something yeah so that's the front door and back door something i've got to look into basically as well but
00:24:29
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i'm I'm getting excited now because it means I get to go in and start rewinding that extension. And rewinding a new extension is the easiest and most fun thing ever. You just clip it to the block work.
00:24:42
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Everything's easy. Even like I can already see going up in the loft all the way across the extension to the new roof. And then my new roof has got a void of maybe like that much to f throw out all the cables in. as and yeah It's like it couldn't be. ah ah I could probably do it in a day.
00:24:56
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yeah I'll probably just drag it out, just take my time to it over a couple of days. But actually, I think it'll be a day. It's really not going to be that hard. yeah I'm getting quite excited for that. And that and that means once they've done the stud work, can rewire the new kitchen and everything, which will take longer because it's just more involved. yeah But it's getting to that stage now. You're like, cool. I reckon we're going to start like flowing now. It's nice. It's going to all come together nicely. hopefully Hopefully. I've got a new job starting on the 11th of May, which is a bit annoying. But...
00:25:25
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Hopefully, it'll just be a couple of weeks solid there, then come back and forth again. But yeah still, I don't think you'll hold anything up too much. But it's definitely going to be more. This has been all on the builder, all on the builder, with me chipping in. And it's just going to flip, I think. It's slowly changing. Yeah. And I can get the plumber in as well now. I was going to say, have you put the plumber in to start? I've asked him, yeah, to come in. He's doing that kitchen we're working on at the moment. He's putting up the air source heat pump and stuff at the moment. yeah, yeah. So i said to him, ASAP, you can get some money. So I went um and did he i did his chases before, but he just wanted them slightly wider and slightly deeper. So channeled those all out um the other day as well.
00:26:03
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Nice. um So, yeah, he's ready to go on, I'd say, like, sort of two thirds of the old house and then when that roof goes on presumably he can just crack on with doing anything.
00:26:14
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Like a new boiler's going in the utility room going to so easy for him again with that massive void. Yeah. No cutting through joists or anything. You can just run everything above, drop it down. Amazing. I think it's all going fly in so I'm hoping it sort of goes quite quickly now. Yeah. um As long as we've got the money to finish which I have no idea. That's it. keep forgetting to speak to my brother about it. I was going to say, do you...
00:26:37
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Is this a point where you're starting to look at like end dates and like when you're going to start putting things on the market? Or do you just like to hold off a bit? just Yeah, want to get too carried away because always feel like if you work to a date, sometimes it's quite hard to work to date because you're so reliant on other people. yeah yeah um But I think selling at like Christmas is notoriously a terrible time. yeah November, I know you can get the odd and odd anomaly, but in my head I feel like September's always quite a good time to sell or October and then people buy and try and complete before Christmas. Yeah. Apparently summer holidays is terrible to sell because everyone's, all the kids are off. Yeah. No time to go visit these things.
00:27:18
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But again, I might be targeting an old retired person anyway who has all the time to work. Yeah. Who knows? i also think like it's a bit, maybe not a myth, but it's like if you want to sell your house and you need to move. Exactly. It doesn't matter what time of the year it is. Does it really? No, exactly. I mean, we bought ours. We completed in February.
00:27:38
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And it was two months. So we must have we must have made an offer. Oh, we did make an offer in December. So there you go. So I remember because Emily was super ill. And she was like, oh, i sorry I've seen this house. I love it It's got so much potential. yeah but We could extend here. And she was so ill. And she was like, I can't be bothered. It's not going to be right. going have all this work to do. Can we even afford it? And I was like, come on. She was so poorly. She was like, oh, whatever. And I was like, oh, we won't get it anyway. And I just bid asking. And apparently people offered more than us, but they turned them down because we said we'd be quicker.
00:28:10
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And we got it. And then she was like, what? You said you weren't going to get it. And now I haven't even seen it. And oh I was like, no, I've already ordered a nice structure engineer to Palm. So it's too late. It's too late. So yeah, that was December. So obviously yeah for us, it was amazing. So exactly. Who knows? Who knows? So true. And I think ours was, we made not three. It was like,
00:28:33
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It must have been late winter. Yeah, it must have been. It just is what it is. It is what it is. i' I'm not like precious about it, but I do realise compared to other jobs I've worked on how small a house it is. so I don't see how the plumber, for example, can be in there for 20 days of work, for example. yeah To me, if there's him and one other...
00:28:55
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they could get it done including the boiler and stuff, which they wouldn't do in the first week. I reckon it'd be like five days first fix, yeah four five days second fix, 10 days for them. it's just It's just so doable. I've done some of the chases for them. Extension is just putting it down the wall to rads. It's really, yeah obviously bathrooms and the ensuite is the most workable.
00:29:17
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um But maybe second fixing is way slower, to be fair, for plumbers because it's just like so fiddly with valves and things, isn't it? Like testing. Yeah, testing, everything butt hanging the boiler. Yeah. um So maybe that. But I just can't see how they're going to take a long time. um It's just whether like my plaster and stuff like that is reliable and can come around and crack on yeah and then down to me.
00:29:37
Speaker
Is boiler first fix or second fix? Second, yeah, second. Especially in no one's living there, so there's no urgency to like do it or anything. just thought they would want to get that on before doing everything else, but I suppose it would be the start of second things. exactly.
00:29:51
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don't know if they'd do that. Some people might leave it right until the end. um But yeah, five was them. and ah I always like doing the big weird things first. That's why I've already yeah got my new fuse board in there. Yeah. I've transitioned to all of that now. So the old fuse board's gone, all the old wiring's gone. Amazing. And the new one's there. So I like to do that sort of thing early, but obviously the plums couldn't because the roof's not on and stuff like that.
00:30:13
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um So I'm just hoping they give me, like, you know, they do it like i like to work and just book me out for a week and smash it. and Yeah. Go away again. Come back in August or September. After plastering. Yeah. And just smash it again. That'd be awesome. Yeah.
00:30:26
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And now I've got to just try and think, start thinking ahead all the little steps. So like i'm I'm going to paint it myself, but I also know a painter at the moment who needs a little bit of work yeah so i need to i'm gonna get a price from him and then yeah need to meet with my brother and discuss like budget and stuff because painting something that i think is kind of underrated some people like you can just do it yourself which yeah i think you can but some of it is so difficult with like woodwork and it's like intricate isn't it exactly some of it's like obviously fairly easy but
00:30:57
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Even when places are plastered, there's still a bit sand in the knees to be done. Yeah, that's it, yeah. And again, if you want to get good money, I think it just needs to be like bang on. So yeah I'm going to get a price from him and then decide down the line whether it's worth going with him and whether we've got the money to or not, basically. Or if you do half and half, I suppose, if you do few bits and he does Because I was like, oh, I could miscoat it to save you the money. but yeah Sorry, to save the hassle.
00:31:22
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But he actually said, oh to be fair, it would be so much better for me if you can tape up all the windows for me. I'll just spray it. And he can miscoat the place in a day. um And I've seen him do that at a job I had for a client where he literally, he was just taping and taping and taping. And tap and you know, oh my God, he's just done nothing for like six hours. And he's just like...
00:31:43
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foot miscoat, first coat, done. Next morning, second coat, done. He's like, Jesus, the whole right upstairs is miscoated. That's crazy. Woodwork, everything. in Yeah. ah like ah Basically a day's worth of spraying. um So he was like, it won't actually be that expensive for you. And I was like, oh, okay. So then I'm like, afflicted. Yeah. It's hard, isn't it? a lot We nearly bought a paint sprayer because we did our whole house.
00:32:07
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But I heard a lot of things about like, you've got like, keep it used and make sure it's like clean. So it just, It feels like it's not the greatest tool for a DIYer, right? Because it's not being used all the time, right? But if you're a painter and you're using it day in, day out, it makes sense, doesn't it? And you're notorious for buying buckets and paintbrushes and just throwing them in the skip. Yeah. Because you share my tool station account. It's like, Dan's buying another bucket. Why did you buy so many buckets? I just love a bucket, mate. What can I say? They always end up in the skip. Yeah, that's it. So any environmentalists out there, you know, to come for.
00:32:39
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It should be outside my house, like, protesting. So but yeah, I think spraying's fast if you know how to do it properly then know how to tape up properly. And you're right, cleaning it, which I'd be really bad at too. I think you literally just, at the end of every day, need to clean it properly and get it ready for the next day, which again, my painter's so good with stuff. You just see him at the end of the day, like he's he knows what, like bag up certain brushes. He'd have like 10 brushes. Say if you're doing 10 colors, you have 10 brushes for 10 colors, and then he does have to wash those up. He just keeps them in the paint thing or whatever. her van yeah Okay, you're just so much slicker than us, obviously. Yeah, that's
00:33:17
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I love watching painters cut in. It's just such a skill, isn't it? And then try and I'm like, God damn it. know, I just can't do it. I literally can't do it. You see the technique of a million times. You start out and go and looks perfect. And then you're like, oh, okay, you try it. And then you're like, oh, went on you know Immediately. Yeah. And then a little drip goes on the floor. You're like, oh, and then you step in the drip. So I'm just like, oh, my God.
00:33:42
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So and I need to talk to my brother and me about like the budget and what we've got. yeah The other one is... Builder hasn't given me, so Dave hasn't given me a proper price yet, but he said the porch is going to be way more than I was expecting, between maybe seven and eight grand. Oh, wow. um so for people that haven't listened before, there's like a really ugly hexagonal porch on the front of the house, and it's like a big eyesore.
00:34:09
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um and i've got a price to just replace the glazing for the anthracite glazing i'll put in the rest of the house it might neaten up a bit yeah um but neighbors have got a rectangular portrait they've knocked down the hexagonal one a bit and it just looks slick and it looks smart and i definitely want to do it talking about getting the highest value and like curb appeal and stuff but excuse me yeah he said it might be seven to eight grand because It's got no foundations, the original porch. So you're knocking down the porch, you're digging the foundations. You say it might be like 60 centimetres the whole way around. yeah Pouring concrete and then building the bricks up again like a foot or so ready for the the windows and door.
00:34:47
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And then it also means adjusting everything, including the soffits, the roof that goes into it, the flat roof. It's actually just saying it all that loud. You're like, God, that is actually quite a lot, isn't it? No wonder it's quite a lot. i was In my head, i was thinking more like,
00:35:03
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ah even three to four but maybe four to five yeah and then you're like god that seven to eight doesn't even include glazing and i know i've got a quote for the glazing already and it's not too bad but it doesn't include the front door or the porch door you're like this seven to eight with the windows could be 10 with the door could be or doors sir could be 11 to 13 say yeah and a porch but ah You said it the other week. I think it if you've if I've got it, I should definitely do it. Yeah. But great I've got it like 13 grand. Yeah, on a porch. On a porch. And it literally I've got i've got ah like quite a bit of work at the moment. And I keep thinking, oh I've got this rewire, for example. And I'm like, once I'm taxed, that pays for not even half the porch. So it's just so depressing. working on weeks. To slug your guts out for like a month and a bit to get half what porch is or whatever. Yeah. So I'm just like, oh, but...
00:35:55
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I still feel like if the money's there from somewhere, then I should do it. but I agree with you. I think if you've got the money to do it. What would happen if you just knocked it down and had nothing?
00:36:05
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Yeah. Isn't it weird? I don't think so because a neighbour opposite has that and he looks fine. You've got a new front door on. But I don't know because it's crazy paving, a terrible paving. Surely no um young people even know of because no one's put it in for like 30 years. yeah But obviously that stops up to the porch. yeah So I'd have to get more crazy paving from somewhere and install it where the porch was. because obviously yeah And then presumably I'd still have to, like even though there's no foundation, dig up a bit under the porch to then lay that tiny bit. yeah And then I'd have some weird bit of new crazy paving, unless I thought of something like out of the box, like...
00:36:44
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like a lot of pretty like gravel bit or something you know something yeah yeah I'm just like oh it's never like how much is that exactly you know what mean exactly and there's never like an easy one is there it's like okay just get rid of the porch and you're like oh no way that leads to have to put something there exactly and then that presumably still means the soffits have got to get changed yeah the soffits run into the porch yeah The guttering has to get changed because that runs into the porch. I think the roof, probably okay, but might need a little bit. So even getting rid of the porch might cost like a grand or two grand. of I've no idea. no So it's like, it's one of those, people must have this with their own DIY things where they're like, we've got a hundred grand to do our house. And then these things come up and it's like, man, 13 grand is 13% of the original budget. That's mental on a porch. No one's sleeping in it. but Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. it's mad. Um, like I i remember like annoyingly, like, what it like last year when we got really strong winds, it like blew one of our fences, fences down. It was like, it had been going for ages, but it was just one those things I didn't want to pay for.
00:37:49
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And then i was like, okay, like, I'm going to look at doing this myself. And then I priced it up and then I was oh out of interest. There was a guy who did our like side gate.
00:38:00
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got him round to quote it up. And the difference was just like, don't know, I'd say just like 400 quid, but just 400 pounds. And I'm like, this is going to take me like, I think it was like six panels. I was like, this could take me like four weekends.
00:38:16
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um And then you've got annoy your neighbours because there's no fence there for four weekends. And you've got a hope that it doesn't rain. yeah And then you've got a hope that you're not doing anything. You don't get sick or whatever for those four weekends. It was just like,
00:38:29
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A no-brainer, really. It was like, let's just pay this guy. Him and two other guys turned up, and they did it in half a day. Oh, amazing. I was like, they're really good, but it just made me feel like a bit of an idiot. Because was like, this would have taken me like... eight days and then you've done it half a day. ah But have you ever seen those guys on Instagram? I don't know if it's because the algorithm, but I've seen a few people saying, you know, you give a customer a price of, say, like 300 pound. Yeah. And you finish the work in like three hours and the customer thinks or like a day. Yeah. He said it might take two and then the customer gets annoyed, for example. And i was like, but you just can't because some people have done this for like 30 years. Yeah. Just awesome at it. And like you said, it would take you four weekends minimum, maybe. yeah And they've done it in half a day, but with three, you're like, it's just worth it. Sometimes you've got the money, you've just got to do it. The price is the price at the end of the day. Exactly. You're happy to pay it. And like,
00:39:20
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How many jobs do you do, I know in my job, where you're like, oh this is going to be a nightmare. And you're like, oh, actually, like fine nothing went wrong or like something minor went wrong. But you know there's also those jobs where you try and do something you think is going to be simple and it's just a nightmare. So obviously, they've got price that in. and Yeah, exactly. At the end the day, if you're happy paying that price,
00:39:40
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But even happier if it's done quicker. Exactly. And that's um that's one of those jobs that actually is hard, isn't it? Yeah. Moving old like gravel boards and like yeah concrete posts and doing it concrete, mixed digging. When you see the digging of that thing, you're like, oh God. I think there is like a little screw drill thing you can get these days to help. yeah um but i was like, it's such hard work. Yeah. It's one of those things like...
00:40:04
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when we moved in here, they said, the comments said to varnish the doors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. was like, yeah, cool. I was like, said to Emily when we moved, can you do that, please? Because I've just done so much in this house. Can you please do something? She's like, yeah, no, I don't mind. Just get varnish and stuff. And I never bought her the varnish, to be fair. But B, when my painter texted me the other week saying I haven't got much work for a change, have you got anything? I was like, oh, actually, could you come and varnish the doors? And then he came here and he was like,
00:40:32
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you know you've got like i can't think the number but like 22 doors or something and i was like what have i and i was he was like yeah and it's um 22 doors so like 44 both sides i've got to do two coats so 88 coats and then was like bloody hell and it took him three days to like sand it down a bit yeah and then and i was like emily doing 88 coats if you if to say one side I was like, how on earth? That 80-acre might have taken you like 40 weeks something. It'll still going now, I think. Yeah, exactly. So it's one of those things. was like, oh, to pay my painter a bit of money as well is just well worth it. Although was shocked by the price of painting. It's mental. Yeah, yeah. £160 for a tin of varnish.
00:41:15
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Wow. I just couldn't believe it. And he was like, oh, think this is enough. was like, make it enough. Yeah. You will make enough. don't care if something's not double-coated. The guy just was so nice as well and just gave me like a massive discount as well. was just like, oh, actually, you're not an account holder, but you know, blah, blah, blah. And he's whipped it. But was like, oh, cheers, mate. Thanks. And I was like, still £160. That's crazy. So, yeah, I think sometimes you've just got to know what to do what not to do, right? Yeah. Well, we've just finished painting our banister.
00:41:44
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And then it was like looking at me, was like, it's just wood paint, like... But Bannister's quite like a hard-wearing area, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. You're constantly putting coats on there and stuff like that. So Christy looked up this stuff, and it was called um Tough Top Coat. Okay. And you basically just paint it on, and he just I thought it would go really shiny, because when you put it on, it's very shiny. No color difference. Oh. And it just like adds like ah a sort of top coat to it. Oh, like a protective sheen type thing. I was like, that's genius, isn't it? That is clever.
00:42:16
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but especially for those hard wearing areas because you know sods law and it you finish painting and then it just like starts chipping yeah and you've got two-year-old right yeah grubby hands going up there and stuff oh my mom always told me about paint oh we've got to answer an email from ah a listener at some point because she actually advised about she was asking what paints put in her kids room this is what just ring a bell yeah my mom was like you can get this white paint Especially in kitchens and stuff. If you get like cooking and a spill or something, you can actually get some of it where you just wipe rather than to touch up.
00:42:48
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like um And I was like, oh, that's a good idea. But yeah, worth it sometimes, things like that. and Yeah, definitely. But assume the varnishing of the doors is the same thing. because i think over time, like the... Even like the dirt in the air and stuff. Yeah. Our house is that dirty. I think it could just affect these doors they start to lose colour and stuff. Yeah. Unless I've just been sold a river of lies to get in three days' work, maybe. I think varnish is nice, isn't it? just sort of seals everything. Yeah, exactly. yeah And we did have grubby little fingerprints off, I think my nephews and them did as well, on the toilet door where they're obviously constantly going in and out. Yeah, of course, yeah.
00:43:23
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ah Yeah. But actually, as well, one thing to mention, I'm just seeing my little list, is actually made some money this week. Well, I was going to say, you're a bit flush at the moment, isn't you, mate? I was actually, if I'm honest, a tiny bit disappointed with the amount.
00:43:37
Speaker
Because in my head, so I take all the copper out. And then yesterday, i took all the copper out that was left from the loft. And it was a massive run of three pipes going up to... like a small water tank thing. I never know what those ones are. know if they're like a feeder tank because you've got the main big tank. Yeah, yeah. And it's like a feeder tank high up. of Okay, yeah. I don't actually know what the technical term is or whatever, but the run of it was probably like the whole width of Grand's Bungalow and then like them pointing up into the air like another three meters or so up to the tank so i whipped out all of that and i was like wow this just feels heavy it's gonna be good money good which obviously it was it so long story short it was 630 pounds nice um but just in my head i thought i might get to more like eight nine hundred yeah and then the tank that my plumber stole
00:44:24
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um would have got me over a thousand i thought so i was a little bit disappointed but i was also talking about being like making the right choice and the wrong choice and stuff but i was a little bit lazy because i rang a couple of scrap people yeah and the local one in bromley was like six pound whereas there was one in era for like six pounds 70 and then another sydenham or somewhere like that six pound 90. it's like 15 more But I literally typed it into the sat-nav and was like 50 minutes each way. yeah And that was squeezing it in today when already I had to go to like Cedarwood here dropping off and then yeah work for my brother or while in the garden room, go and get this scrap pick up Lydia. And I was like, oh, it's one of those things, isn't it? It's like I could have had maybe, I don't know, what's 15% more? 100 quid tops, maybe 90 quid more. But like how much time? I would have lost two and a bit hours probably. Yeah, plus petrol. Plus petrol and stuff. So I made the decision just to go to a local one and take a hit. And obviously 630 quid's awesome. Which is good, isn't it? Free stuff I've been ripping out.
00:45:22
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So for people don't know, like what can you take as scrap? Because I know you can't take wires, or you yeah can, but you have to strip them down. Yeah, no, no, you can. So you can take cable as well, but you can take um cable with the insulation still on, just gets you way less money because they have to put it through their little machines that strip it.
00:45:40
Speaker
I follow someone on Instagram, it's so fascinating, I'm so geeky. They literally put it through this new machine, it's amazing, it strips all the insulation off. So yeah, you get way less. I'm really bad, so really should do scrap cable because I'm rewiring houses. But sometimes it's so faffy to rip out, it's not worth the time, I don't think. But grand, again, most of it's up in the loft, so it's all there, and now it's all dead. So I feel like should spend like an hour just cutting, cutting, cutting, and actually taking it. I don't know the numbers off the top my head, but I know if you took pure copper, you'd probably get like three, four times more than like cable in a bag. Okay. But I think if you got the opportunity, and hopefully you're not doing anything illegal, like smashing up a train track or something, you should definitely bag it up and just take it because they're all over the place and you can take any metals. The obvious ones are like lead pipes, which a lot of people rip out these days because they like poison the water and stuff. Yeah, yeah. copper cable obviously copper pipes and then you get weird ones like the one that pays nothing is the cast iron one yeah which is like that roller you said you had yeah yeah it weighs like eight tons yeah even if you had like eight tons that's where you get like 40p or something yeah um our water pipes are all cast iron Ah, okay. Because I think when they looked at it, when they built the house... Or lead, cast iron or lead? So it's lead coming in and then it's cast Oh, wow.
00:47:02
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um I think when they built the house, there was like a ah shortage. So I think they just used that, which is quite weird. Oh, okay. Yeah, so I was like, nothing for that. But yeah, you take it down to these places. and um I mean, I filmed it all, so I'm going to do a YouTube video about like how I've done the whole thing, just out of it. People pique their interest. But yeah you do you totally feel like you're getting ripped off at all stages, but then it is literally free money a degree. But you hear all these stories about, you know, you bring... So today, i had so much copper. I'll show you the photo wire on here. Not very good for people listening. But they brought me like a little bin out because I had so much. It was almost like a little mini-skip.
00:47:42
Speaker
and they brought this out because I had so much and I put it all in there. Oh, cool. And then they literally got a forklift and then put that on a scale. And then the old, you know, wires towels, if they're true, which I think they probably are true, is that the scales are dodgy, obviously. yeah And then obviously he's put, I don't know how much is actually in there, and the total reading on the scale said 300 and something kilograms, which if that was seven pounder thing would be like two grand. But obviously the bin...
00:48:11
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weighs amount of cash, which I don't know how much they want. No, that's true. So there's so many opportunities for them to be dodgy if they want to be. So I'm sure there's probably a little bit of dodginess in it. And I'm sure they at least double their money, I reckon. Oh, yeah. They must do. They must do, yeah. But then they have to do all the crap to get all the clips off and all the stuff.
00:48:29
Speaker
But at the same time, 630 quid for yeah ripping some stuff out, which has probably taken me ah It combined probably one day's worth of ripping out, but over like months.
00:48:40
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um So yeah, definitely worth it. So you can just go down to these places and you just show them your ID. So that's the thing that's changed. they I think where it used to be super dodgy was it you'd get cash and it'd just be all a bit iffy. yeah Because now you have to take your driving license and it has to get paid into your account.
00:48:54
Speaker
I think that's to stop the old pikeys on the train tracks and stuff like that. As you're hacking down like 11,000 volt cables with all those nutters. That's mental, man. I think that's to stop that. So yeah, then literally I'd say wherever you live, there'd probably be one unless you're writing sticks, but definitely. I saw some like old guy in there. Um, we went to school with his daughter. family Oh really? He was like, you Nick Morris. I was like, yeah. And I he was going to say about YouTube. And he was like, oh, I'm blah, blah, blah. Dad. I was like, oh, right. Then I didn't say the YouTube. I'm like a complete knob. Oh, you you probably know me from YouTube. Yeah. My podcast. You got like a really good podcast. that No, mate. You went to school with daughter. You idiot. Yeah.
00:49:33
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And he just had random stuff, like a bit of stuff from his greenhouse and stuff like that. Interesting. He'd taken down. was so you can take anything. And the woman in front of me was there with two kids, and I heard her say, blimey, this was stuff was going to throw in the skip, and I think she got like 90 quid for it. So it's like, why not try it? Exactly. Like you say, it's something you were going throw away. So why wouldn't you just take it down there? And once, I think, I don't if I've said this already on the podcast, I was walking to the train station once and I saw load of copper pipe that someone had left, clearly for someone to take, as in, like, I can't be bothered. And I looked at and I was like, damn it, that is, like, 70 quid or something there. I was I've got to go and pick up Lydia. I can't, like, be late to pick up my daughter because I'm like a gypo with loads of, like, copper pipe on my back. Turn up at school and you're going to eat copper pipe. Yeah. I'd be like, that's not embarrassing for her at all. So, yeah, fully recommend those places, even though I'm sure...
00:50:25
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they're ripping you off Yeah, but money's money, mate. on I know. know. I asked them to film. I said, do you mind me filming point on YouTube? They're like, It looked a bit strange me, but they like, yeah, do whatever you want, mate. were probably like, we're fleecy, mate. We don't care. I see. Just knocked 100 quid off. Yeah. Yeah. But no, I recommend doing it. And it's quite satisfying driving away with some money in your pocket. Yeah, it really is, isn't it?
00:50:48
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah, the car was completely false. I don't know if Amazing. That one I've showed you on the bin, but my crappy old Peugeot was literally the whole thing was like...
00:50:59
Speaker
Fall in the back. That's why kind of thought might be more, like a grand. Yeah. But never mind. Can't complain. Did they want to take the Peugeot It's probably worth more than the Peugeot. drive it in, yeah. I think we did a We Buy Any Car a couple of, like, about a year ago. It was like $1,100 something. So probably down to, like, less than the scrap value of that.
00:51:17
Speaker
We Buy Any Car, but not this It was really shitty. Yeah. Oh, such a bad car. Such a bad car. So I think that's it for this week. So I think Rufa from tomorrow, which is awesome. And then Studwork.
00:51:31
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he thinks he'll be done the stuff at the end of next week as well. Wow. And then I can get in there and it's probably just when I start my blooming rewiring. Yeah, yeah. To be fair, I could just start doing a few weekend work, maybe like a Sunday. Yeah. Because ah as I say, it don't feel it's going to take long. So maybe...
00:51:46
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without slowing down the job, I just have to do the odd Sunday. We've got a few bank holidays coming up, so I could do that. Not this weekend, though. Not this weekend. We're on stag do. on Yeah, your brother's stag do. Maybe that's why phoneing but yeah like he's Maybe he's panicking.
00:51:58
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Maybe the wedding's off. We're still going to stag do. Yeah, exactly. Maybe mental. Tell me after this, thank you. Yeah. How much is he done? He never phones me this late. I don't know what the hell's going on. I kind of wish that we answered the phone on the podcast. I don't think he listens, sadly. Now we know my builder does. have to how can get him on board. That's it, yeah. And then next week, we've got our guest, haven't we, Doha? Yes. Very exciting next week. We've got Ellie from Renovating the Constabulary. She has...
00:52:31
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I wouldn't say this, but she is known for having the world's ugliest house. So yeah, Lincoln's most ugliest. What would you say it looks like? It's hard to say. I think the worst the house isn't ugly. It was the rendering. I think someone...
00:52:46
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think someone like, related it to, like, an old, like, rubbish cake. Yeah, like cake frosting, isn't But, like, that old layered effect you've got in, like, the old days, which I can't remember. But when I saw her Instagram, was like, it does look like that. Yeah, it does, yeah. Someone says, yeah, it does. and hopefully you're not as thick as me because when I heard constabulary, her name is Renovating the Constabulary. was like, is that religious thingy? I was like, no, it's not. What is that? was like, oh, it's an old police station.
00:53:14
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it's an old police station she's done up. So there's actually some cool history to it. So i'm looking forward to speaking with her because presumably it's had like prisoners and stuff in there. Yeah. And hopefully she got some good details for us. Definitely. And like,
00:53:25
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like buildings with that sort of history. It's just, and when you can like find out about it, it's just like, yeah, cool one definitely. I'm sorry. We need to answer email questions at one stage as well. Cause we've got a few and we just never do it. We will do an episode. so we're doing Maybe we should just do ones. We just answer loads of questions. yeah Yeah. I can annoy you with AI questions.
00:53:46
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Definitely from you, from Mick Norris. Yeah. But why is AI the best thing ever? Yeah.
00:53:54
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00:54:13
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Um, but yeah, thanks so much for listening. And, uh, especially Toby. Yeah. Especially, yeah. Shout out to Toby again. Yeah. Thanks for being the best. Um, uh, We will see you all next week. See you next week.