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S1 EP 16 | The £100k Bungalow Renovation - End of week 10
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Nick receives 3 plumbing quotes with a £6,000 swing, the builders go on holiday (and ask for a suspiciously large payment before they go) and Dan is eyeing up a freebie!
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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.
Weekly Catch-up: Holidays and Builders' Absence
00:00:17
Speaker
Welcome back to the DIY Guys podcast. It is week 16 and as always, I'm joined with my co-host Nick. Nick, how things? Very well, ah very well. How are you matey? Yeah, not too bad, thanks mate. Yes, it's been a A good week. We've actually had a bit of sunshine. Had a bit of sunshine. I've been on another sneaky holiday. Yeah, yeah. Didn't want to bring that up straight away, but yeah, let's go into it. I'm dreading this episode. There's nothing to talk about.
00:00:42
Speaker
Basically, I've been away. The Builder's been away. The other Builder's been away. So you can tell, um obviously it's Easter, right? Yeah. And everyone's got kids. the Both Builders have got two kids, so... One's been to Florida, which we said last week. It's a bit suspiciously asked for so much money. Yeah. Literally asked for like a massive chunk of money all of a sudden, then doesn't do a week. Has he come back? Have you checked? his He hasn't come back yet. I don't even know if he's back yet or not.
00:01:06
Speaker
How long did you go to Florida for? He could go for two weeks, couldn't you guess so, yeah. He's probably not back. there No. um But Toby, the other builder's back. So he just did um a UK... I think he did two UK breaks, somewhere like the Cotswolds and somewhere like, you know, Centrefarks or Haven or Butlins whatever. Yeah, yeah. and Perfect for kids. Yeah, perfect for kids. So, yeah, there's...
00:01:26
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what we're going to talk about. Well, has anything happened at the
Plumbing Quotes and Decisions
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bungalow at all? Well, before we left, the Toby was working on the roof. um I was doing a few things and I've been, the main thing is putting out, um getting the plumbers quote in.
00:01:42
Speaker
So my plumber is sort of semi-retiring. So I said, are you up for this job? Because for people who don't know, it's going to be quite a big job. So I think it's something like eight radiators, including the towel rows, or maybe even nine with the en suite.
00:01:56
Speaker
I was going back and forth with you the other week about whether to do the en suite as well in the bathroom. But anyway, say if we do that, it's three bedrooms with obviously radiators in, hallway and lounge with radiators in, um kitchen, utility room with radiators in and sinks and taps and whatever, yeah let alone bathrooms and en suites with showers, baths. It's a lot, isn't it? You just a describe out loud. Well, i yeah I immediately go like, that is a lot of heavy stuff. Yeah, exactly. If you're like getting on a bit.
00:02:23
Speaker
No offense to electricians, but I suppose you don't have to carry heavy sort of stuff that Whereas, yeah, like even plumbers, like you've got to carry up tight boxes of tiles and stuff like I always think that. about I've said before, even when we've interviewed the female plumber and the electrician, I was brave enough to say it to him, yeah the electrician. um I just think it's much easier electric. So the heaviest thing we have to lift is cable.
00:02:46
Speaker
You're not shoving it around everywhere. And it's just sockets and occasionally you get the odd light. But yeah what I've just described out loud makes me sort of vindicated for getting these quotes because, as I say, he's he's unfortunately not in the best of health. And I asked him to rip out these pipes in the kitchen that have been dangling from the old storage cupboard um where the immersion was and all the gas pipes and things. And he said he'd do it before I went on holiday. And that was end of February for birthday. So it's been a couple of months now or like seven, eight weeks. so I'm always transparent with people. So I said to I'm going to get these prices. And he sort of said, okay.
00:03:21
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um He's still happy to pop in and do those parts, but hasn't. So anyway, i've I've got three prices now. Okay. One through Builders Plumber, one through a plumber I've used with clients a couple of times. He was really nice. And he did my brother's kitchen as well.
00:03:35
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And then the third plumber I've never used before. My brother had heard was very good as well. Okay. And there's a six grand swing between them basically. Wow. That's quite big. I know. So i I have gone with the cheapest, but I assure you it's not just because it's the cheapest. So it's 12 grand at the bottom, 14 and a half in the middle and 18 at the top.
00:03:55
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Okay. um And you know with instinct, 18 just felt wrong. Yeah. Rewires these days, like on a big house, I'm charging sort of 10 to sort of 13, 14. Yeah. And I always think plumbing slightly more than that. And this isn't a big house. No. Everything can be run up in the loft. There's going to be so much stud work to run all your things in. The only tricky rooms...
00:04:19
Speaker
I can help with, although these people did quote without me helping, what two of them did. um I can help with the chases and stuff. They are long drops down because we've got a concrete floor. But anyway, so I think as re-plums go, if that's what it's called, it's not the most difficult job, but you just need like a few men. yeah i think someone with three or four guys will just knock it out in probably two or three days. That wouldn't surprise me. So yes, I've gone with the cheapest one because it's the builder's plumber.
00:04:48
Speaker
Oh, amazing. And working with him over in Tunbridge on a kitchen where um he's putting in the heat pump that we were talking about previously. Yeah. He's a really nice guy. um And he's actually taken off a lot of things as well. So some of the 18 and a bit quote was including stuff like radiators. Yeah. And the 12 isn't.
00:05:07
Speaker
Okay. So obviously it's not quite a fair comparison. feel like it. But I just want control over that stuff anyway. and i want to make sure that they're all like triple like rads and the nice looking ones. And I know where to get.
00:05:17
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quite cheap ones although they probably do too yeah um so he's taken off um no chasing walls or pipe drop so i've already started that yeah i'm probably 50 done no supplying radiators or radiators valves absolutely fine for me no wiring boilers or thermostats i can do that and get a wireless thermostat as well um no supplying of thermostats for the boiler no macerators or water softeners wouldn't have that anyway no hot water boiling taps wouldn't have that and no rubbish that's they never take no i've never met anyone it's funny because because i'm lucky enough to have grand skip i feel like clients sometimes like me like today i literally did a job for a client i've worked for early in the year and the last thing was a porch light and i just finally bought it and i had it all there and was like should leave it there but they were at work i was like it's much nicer for them yeah it takes no effort for me to put
Bungalow Renovation Challenges
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in my skip admittedly Just come home, there's no rubbish and there's light just off. Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, I couldn't actually turn the light on because didn't have access to the house. So hopefully the light works. Hopefully it works, yeah. exactly
00:06:20
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But I think that's quite nice to be like no rubbish. Yeah, yeah, definitely. always think when you come back to a tradesman, it's like clean. Yeah. You always think that like, okay, like and they've really taken care of this job. And care about it Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because actually the house is a bit of a tip at the moment. I've been trying to slowly start to get it together.
00:06:39
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and start tired but haven't been there enough to really tighten the builders are just outside it's not really their fault they've got some stuff there but not a lot it really is like my number of brothers thought he's got loads of his stuff that used to be in the garage yeah in the house and you know when you start a job i you've got tons of tools in't you yeah yeah i brought everything yeah you might need like a pipe wrench and stuff like that random things yeah you think oh i might need i'm getting that nice satisfactory bit now I'm starting to take them away again. Yeah. Like the wallpaper strip has gone. Nice. The plumbing stuff, which I shouldn't be anywhere in the end, has gone. So I'm getting to that nicer stage now of like, yes, I'm like taking things away again. Yeah. So I just appreciate when and people are so super tired. Yeah.
00:07:21
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Yeah, definitely. And it it just makes a hell of a difference, doesn't it? I'm walking into a room and if there's that stuff everywhere, it just feels like they don't care and they've just like tried to smash it out. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So there's been no money going out yet.
00:07:34
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I sort of need a little tally really on the chart to be like what I think I'm going to spend now. Yeah. um Because we've spent 46,000, which I said on the last one, and it hasn't changed because everyone's been away, obviously. Yeah, of course. Mentor of the Builder Charles. Can you imagine? Whilst in Florida. He calls you up near Mickey Mouse in the background. He's like, need more money. It's obviously gone to another park. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Gone to SeaWorld or something.
00:07:56
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um So it's still on 46, which is I feel like it's quite good because the Builders is going to be 50-something. Yeah. um So I've done a big bulk. done probably half the window cost as well. um so it feels like a good amount but then at the same time there's going to be big plumbing ones all the plumbing things are super expensive aren't they yeah oh actually this quote as well was um no concealed shower valves or basin taps which actually i like the concealed ones yeah there might be a little extra that i have to deal with I don't really like it all exposed you might be to do in one of the showers yeah true i think just looks nice anything yeah i think so as well yeah yeah it does and i just think for like cleaning exactly so much easier it' to like clean because
00:08:37
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Yeah, very boring. But it's like when you've got clean the bathroom, for God's sake, can you imagine trying scrub all the pipes? Yeah. That'd be horrendous. Exactly. And i don't annoyingly, I don't think it's that much ag for them either because, again, it's all in stud work. Yeah. youre just batting it out and you put at the perfect depth. and it's I don't think it's that much aggravation for them. But I get that it's more aggravation than them just pushing a pipe through them and then just dealing with it all like that. yeah And I think those sort older bathrooms with the um not concealed stuff, or like exposed things, are more traditional, like a Victorian place or whatever, which we don't have.
00:09:12
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I mean, like that's cool, but I think what what you're building, you don't want it to be too personally styled. You want it to appeal to everyone. Whereas I think a lot of people will be like, um that might be a little too out there for my bathroom. running Yeah, exactly. And because nothing's been going on this week as well, i was like, oh, should take all the pipes to the the scrap man? I was like, so stupid, because it'd be like half an hour each way. I've more to rip out.
00:09:36
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I've got to keep building it up. Just go in one. i'll just want some money to come in. Yeah, and that's it. Look at that spreadsheet all the time. But going
Communicating with Tradespeople Effectively
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to have some difficulty. um I need to get there. I think um with this plumbing price agreed now, and also, by the way, for people out there, I think everyone should do this. And it's a bit like cringe, but I told the other two plumbers that I'm not using them.
00:09:57
Speaker
yeah I think as someone who has been and priced a job before and then not heard anything back, yeah it's really nice. ah like All you have to say is what I said was, thanks so much for your time. Really appreciate your price. I'll decide to go with someone else.
00:10:10
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You don't need to say why. no don't need to say anything to do with money. So I did that and I literally had replies from both them saying, thanks, mate. Appreciate the feedback. Yeah. Sort of thing. So I always make sure i do that. can't think why I was even mentioning that. No, I just, I think that is such a a good idea because, you know, not that this plumber would be like that, but you could get like partway through and you're like, oh, I don't want to use this guy anymore. Exactly. then if you're like ringing up this other plumber again, yeah thought he's going to be like, well, why would I answer to you? You couldn't even give me the courtesy of getting back to you. Exactly, and I have so much client work coming up. That's what that's why it went into my head. yeah
00:10:46
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i I need these guys because I've just got to rewire through a friend, another one that is starting in May. need to start prioritizing things. So why was thinking that was I want to get those front two bedrooms done because they're they're wired, ceilings are boarded.
00:11:00
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It just needs the pipes to bring in in and down. So I said to the plumber, if I do those chases next week, um and I think I've done maybe 50% of them minimum, um If I do those, can you just run the pipes for that room only? You don't have to do anything. Just run them up into the loft.
00:11:15
Speaker
I can plaster. i' Not me. I'm not. I was like, whoa, here we go't go. I'm going nowhere near plastering. um I can get it plastered, and then those two rooms at the front are done, and then we can just think about other stuff yeah another time. So, yeah, because I'm starting to rewire, I think, week commencing, it's 11th Ring of Bell, something like May.
00:11:35
Speaker
Because again, I need money coming in more than money going out. So I've just got to prioritise it. I was going say, it can't be the beginning of May because you're on holiday again. With you this time. Yeah, that's true. Not in a romantic, right? No, no, exactly, yeah. We have my brother's stag, don't we? Yeah, exactly, yeah. And then just sneaking around the garbage.
00:11:53
Speaker
By the way, like to point out that I usually do work hard on this. But it um it's our 40th year and it's really been milked. I've been away with my family. I've been away some guys I used to play football with who all turned 40. We're going away later in the year as well, which is ridiculous.
00:12:07
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And then we've got my brother Stagdew in Portugal as well. Yeah, exactly. Well, it's only turned 40 once, right? I know, I know. But I'm starting to be like... Even coming back from Madrid, I'm just like, oh, I'm so tired. It takes me two days just to even out. And then we've got Chris's in two weeks and I'm a bit like, oh, I wish it was two months. Yeah. Breaking it up a bit better. Will we survive until we're 41? Yeah, and I'm just starting to panic as well about job. But um it's still...
00:12:33
Speaker
I still don't need to be in there really apart from those plumbing chasers. That is my key job, which is super easy just get a chaser digging out. So we asked for 7 centimetres or 70 mil wide and by 35 deep for the pipes. I'm pretty sure I've already done 7 centimetres. I just need to make sure it's all not. I'm so used to... two pipes. Yeah, so just be yeah in and out. Yeah, coming down, going down to each rad.
00:12:56
Speaker
Um, and then they're going to go in the live. Actually, they could do the living room one as well, but it won't be able to be plastered because we're going to go back to back because the rants are back to back walls. Oh, he actually said we can use one chase, go in, out, in, out, back up.
00:13:10
Speaker
Um, I felt conflicted by it because um it's not where I'd put the radiator, but it's the most cost-effective fire. Yeah. A long way, and it still is fine, as in, like, there's room for it. It wouldn't look weird. Yeah. But it's just, like, I'd naturally put it in this little, like, bay bit under the window. Yeah. but it'd honestly be so much more effort, and ah don't think it's going to make a difference. so and I'm selling it. Yeah, yeah. It's still going to hit the room. It's not going to affect wardrobes or anything.
00:13:37
Speaker
No. So I've just thought, what like What is your thoughts on radiators in the bay? Because I've heard like conflicting things. like a to be honest, my lounge, the radiator is in the bay and our bedroom is not.
00:13:51
Speaker
Because I've heard, because it's against an exterior wall, like the heat hits that cold and can cause some damp. Yeah, it's like cold bridging and stuff you hear about as well. I have no idea. But that's why they they used to do it that way, don't they? We still tend to put them under the windows generally, don't we? Yeah.
00:14:09
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But I think in a bedroom, it's quite nice not to be there because you put like a have like mrs Dressing Table or there. exactly what it is. It's kind of like a good spot, isn't it? And you don't want roasting. and you You might want to sock it there, yeah plug stuff in as well.
00:14:23
Speaker
So, yeah, I mean, i actually don't know the technical answer to it, but I feel like people avoid putting them near windows these days. Yeah, because you must lose quite a bit of heat. yeah then if you don't have it there, it's going to like super cold.
00:14:35
Speaker
I know. I mean, I guess... Yeah, you'd hope these days, and we've got the new windows as well, so surely when you've got double glazing stuff, it must help with all these little things. Massively, yeah. yeah, other plumbing thing-wise, you know, i was talking about, again, this is like where one really need to sit down my brother, who is like helping with the money with this and be like, yeah how much money do you have? And how much money more jobs do I need to get to finish this? And because I just keep thinking and i sort of mapped out the um extension. yeah So the extension ah on the plans was bedroom, ensuite, bathroom, utility, all in like a line. I was like, should just get rid of the ensuite? Because the ensuite and the bathroom are right next to each other. yeah i could make a bathroom bigger, have a Jack and Jill, which is like a door from the bedroom and a door from the hallway, which you can sort of lock each one, wherever you're using
00:15:20
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But I mapped it out and I ah did forget to think of wardrobes. So I was like, here's a size bed, side tables. So I forgot a bit of wardrobes. and I was even taking account the thickness of the plasterboard, plastering and but trying to work. I did it quickly.
00:15:38
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um but i i was like oh i think it can outfit actually yeah so my instinct is if you're selling it i don't see how it can't be a perk to have an ensuite even though it's right next to the bathroom it's always worth having an extra bathroom oh that's what we said didn't we and if you've got kids it means the kid can be in the bath someone else could like if you've got guests over or whatever can be yeah ensuite toilet or shower whatever yeah so i feel like that's the right call but i just got to budget it but um again, I'm thinking I've had this £12,000 price now. That includes that.
00:16:09
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yeah So I don't even know what could possibly come off if I was to go with the en suite. I don't see how it could be like three grand. It would probably be two and then all of my parts I've got to buy. So it might cost me five to six grand, which doesn't sound a lot in the grand scheme of things.
00:16:25
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So that's what I'm leaning towards now. do you think? Yeah, yeah. I agree with you. like I think there is positive and minuses for a doing each option. But the more I think about it, the more I'm like,
00:16:36
Speaker
whoever's bedroom that is, if they had a Jack and Jill bathroom, you would kind of see that as your bathroom. And if there's people around, do you want someone coming into like what would be your en suite? Probably not you It'd be nicer to have like a downstairs toilet that someone can use rather than use like a bathroom that belongs to someone, right? Yeah. And we're really lucky. Like Emily's parents stay over every couple of weeks and because they look after Lydia on the Tuesday. yeah they they live like 40 minutes away they just can't bother to deal with the traffic so they come monday night sleeping and it's actually so nice having the option even though i'm sure most people don't have guests maybe like twice a year or something yeah it's just so good having an option even though the bedroom's small but it wasn't a garage yeah just to be like we have a guest bedroom and if you're younger you'll definitely have people over but think as you get older with kids you sort of have less and less people stay yeah true also think like especially by kitchen as well like that's
00:17:32
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you'll you'll be in there like having dinner then you like might have a couple of drinks and then you'll want to use the toilet right so you'd probably
Considering an Ensuite Addition
00:17:38
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use that toilet quite a bit yeah yeah exactly so I'm gonna I'm gonna I've decided to go with it because I sort of had a bit of a wobble about money I would like just But actually getting this rewire has helped. And then I've even got another job that I do. It's just, it's actually more project management. It's not actually me doing this work. It's like this couple who want me to like organize things for them they're just so busy with their work.
00:18:00
Speaker
And they've got like a lovely house. So I've had two of those come in as well. And there was a third little job as well. So I was like, oh, actually bit of work starting to roll in as well. So I feel like I can put in more because I've put in lots at this point and it's sort of running out. Yeah. And like relying on my brother.
00:18:17
Speaker
and like future work coming in now so i'm feeling a bit more confident about like doing it properly because once in when i started my youtube channel actually and i think it was 2018 or 19 i documented this house and all we did was buy this house and it was in a really good area um right near a train station and all we did was just rip out the old stuff and put in the new stuff when it had potential to do like an ensuite in the main bedroom or go up into the loft yeah We didn't really have the money, or but we didn't also go to the bank for it or anything. yeah And people just sort of figured it out because they just looked and right move and were like, oh, this is this was for sale two years ago. It's just the same but new. And we didn't we we did appallingly bad. oh we made 13 grand for like a year and a bit's work. yeah And that's me and my brother working there for a year. yeah i could have made more doing a rewire and a bit of plasterboard or something. It was mad.
00:19:14
Speaker
um So I just feel like you've got to do it to the full potential that you can afford if you can. No tax though. So true. So true. It's embarrassingly bad. But it's better than making a loss. There must be some people that make a loss on this thing. But that was our worst ever.
00:19:28
Speaker
You're even like lying to the tax ban, like giving them money. like Yeah, yeah, it did so much better than you thought. Oh, it's such a good house. And now I think it's worth like 200 grand more than that. Yeah. Just because of how the way the world's got. Yeah, it's bit crazy, isn't it? I was going to ask you, I wondered if you got more people asking about EV chargers at the moment with everything that's going on with petrol prices.
00:19:50
Speaker
So, yeah, and actually the rewire I'm doing, I mentioned to them, do you want me to run a cable for it? And they said, oh, no, don't bother. And I was just like, oh, I just recommend you should. Just put it in, yeah. It's like £100 worth of cable, then a bit of my time. yeah Maximum half day, but I don't see how it could possibly take ah actually wear their fuse boards. Yeah, it can't won't take more than like an hour really. I was just like, I recommend you just do it. So I'm starting to put it into people even if they don't want it. Yeah. Like most people will go hybrid or electric in the next
00:20:22
Speaker
10 years, I think. You'd just be bullied into doing it. Yes, exactly. Then we'd probably get of the life. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah. And again, at Grands, I'm like, I feel like I have the responsibility that I should do it um because I can literally take a cable from the fuse board up into the loft, which is maybe two metres, to the front of the house, which is...
00:20:41
Speaker
six meters maybe yeah down in the extension and just clip it to, and then it gets dot and dabbed. So I might do 20 meters of cable for someone who buys his house to have an EV charger in. yeah And then you're like, oh, do I buy an EV charger and stuff like that? So it's there. yeah I think stuff like that is unnecessary. I feel like you just put in a nice box and label it EV charger just to show that it's there. So how much is an EV charger?
00:21:05
Speaker
The one I bought for my house is rubbish in the sense that all it does is charge the car, which obviously is what you want. yeah And it doesn't do it any slower or faster than like a Tesla one. There's just no app or anything.
00:21:16
Speaker
You literally plug it in and it works straight away. Okay. But I can monitor it through, like, I've got the Volvo anyway to see what the Volvo's charging, so it's fine. um But if you've got, like, a really rubbish electric car, maybe you'd want it to an app or something. Yeah. it was, like, 300 and something pounds, but they go up to, as you can imagine, with, like, Tesla and stuff.
00:21:36
Speaker
I think the Teslas can be, like, a grand. Wow. And you can get these huge Tesla banks as well that do, like, loads. Yeah. It's insane. But, yeah, I recommend everyone, if you're doing this sort of thing, future-proofing your house. Think about you're going to have a garden room.
00:21:49
Speaker
Think about go have garden lights front and back, maybe like a gate in the in the drive. You've just got to try and think of everything. yeah So that's why it's easy for me to say because I'm a Sparky, but just I'm definitely going run a little six mil cable out there just to put it in a box.
00:22:06
Speaker
I think you even said that to me. It's like in my house, it's really well placed where the fuse box is because it's against an external wall that you can drill out of. And then at the front of my house, there's a plug socket on that wall so you can easily drill out there. So it's interesting to hear your thought process that normal people aren't really thinking about when they're doing places out. Yeah, your one isn't a perfect place. That's why we didn't put it in. We literally just drill out, run a cable on the outside, wherever you want the thing, EV charger.
00:22:34
Speaker
Whereas Granz is easy in a sense because you can take it straight up into the loft with like no drama. But actually dropping it back down in the front is now's the time to do it before it gets dot and dabbed. Yeah. which if People don't know what dot and dabbed is. We just say these things. It's just like getting plasterboard in this gunk, basically, and just slamming on the wall and plastering it. um So I can bring it inside that. Whereas if you thought about this in six months' time when someone buys it, they'd probably have to run some horrible conduit down the side of the house. There's no side access.
00:23:04
Speaker
I've got rid of that completely for the extension. So you just have to run some horrible conduit down to an EV charger. I've always wondered, can you get a cable down like an already dot and dabbed wall? Yeah. Could you like, go around? It'd be super hard to get it on the inside of the dot i and then fish out.
00:23:22
Speaker
I'd say that'd be almost impossible. yeah yeah. You'd have to have such luck. um But yeah, you can. and It just depends how much dabbing they've done. Yeah, yeah. Was it dotting? Dotting, not dotting. Yeah. That was dotting they've done. um Yeah, it's definitely
Innovations in Solar Panel Installation
00:23:36
Speaker
possible. Sometimes,
00:23:37
Speaker
in my where we've got our chimney breast i had sockets down below and i just needed one to go up and i just literally fished it up and it actually took longer than i thought to maybe 40 centimeters yeah but it's doable you know so it's doable that's good yeah so yeah i'm gonna do that as well hopefully i don't forget that i need some writing some stuff down um but yeah other than that it's all it's all been quiet there yeah i've been pretty chilled as we're sort of speaking on electrical stuff and going oh dan you're such a geek but i sent you a link the other day to these it's becoming a really popular now for these new solar panels yeah that you can buy and i know you do have to wire them into your property um but they're like you can either have them standing in your garden you can have them hanging on a balcony there's all these different uses of them i just thought i think
00:24:28
Speaker
they range from like six to 800 pounds. And obviously you've got to get electrician and installer install the the wiring for all the power to come in. But it said something like you would get about 858 kilowatts year. Wow, that sounds like a lot. Which, yeah, was like a crazy amount, really. Because I looked at like the average that you get that someone would use in an average house. It's like 2,700 to 2,900, which you think, oh, it doesn't sound like much. But it's like...
00:24:59
Speaker
But that's like three to four months of your electricity yeah like for free. And I know they've probably pumped those numbers up a bit. But yeah if you're looking at like three months of your electric bill for free every year, for even if it lasts for 10 years, like that is a solid investment, isn't it? Yeah, that sounds really good. As you say, you if you lived there for 10, 20 years, that might be like 10 grand or something that you say. And I guess in my one, I could have it on the flat roof.
00:25:24
Speaker
Yes. Because we're doing that little, can't remember called it. Was it a man something? Yeah. Super special name. as There's a flat part of it. So maybe you could have it on there to catch the sun from all the angles all the time. Yeah. Especially it's surrounded by bungalows. You don't get any blocked like sun. Yeah. So that does sound a really logical thing. Like EV car chargers are like seven kilowatts. Yeah. um So to get like 800 out of it, it seems pretty good. Yeah. Even even if you get 500. I just thought it was really good because...
00:25:54
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you know, most people get it put in their roofs, but if you own a flat, you're like, well, maybe I don't have that option. So you could hang it on your balcony. And I know it's not the nicest thing to look at, but you know, I, I know a friend of ours has got ah a small flat and he says like to heat it and stuff is very cheap. That like five to 800 kilowatts would power probably like maybe six months. Maybe I'm being a bit generous, but oh it's a great idea. Five months a year. And you just think,
00:26:24
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for free yeah it's amazing you just buy it get someone to come and and wire it in and then that's it especially where the world's going at the moment i think electricity prices will go up because as soon as everyone goes to electric cars there's no way the government will miss a trick and be like oh no you keep saving your money you keep charging your car for six pounds yeah exactly they're just going to cotton on aren't they and tax it's therefore time for energy price will just shoot up yeah I think it's a good idea. And when I've looked into um like the proper ones you get with the government grants and stuff, it's extortionate. It literally is like 20-odd years to pay back. So someone's actually developed that, that sounds awesome. because Yeah, that's exactly the thing, because I looked at it with our our house, and I was just like,
00:27:05
Speaker
It's such an expensive outlay. Yeah. And they're like, oh, you might pay it back in 20 years. you're like oh, great. Yeah, exactly. That just doesn't appeal. yeah Yeah. And who knows if you're, like, even I love my house. I can't ever imagine moving. But if Lydia doesn't get into a good secondary school or something, we've got yeah stuff like that. So i just ah I wouldn't be willing to spend, like, 50 grand if I had it no on this, like, hunt of me living in this house. and so Unless you literally know is the one for me. I know where my kids are going in or I don't have kids or Yeah. So yeah, that sounds good. You just think for like £600 to £800, worth a punt, isn't it? You would make that back quite easily in couple of years, I guess. So did it have like a little reader type thing as well to tell you how much or like an app or something? You see how much you're making? I don't know if it had an app or anything like that. I think you can buy, so that's just like the basic package and you can probably buy those extra pieces to go with it. So I'd be surprised. Nowadays, everything's got an app, hasn't it? Yeah. I'd be surprised it didn't.
00:28:01
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But yeah, was just really intrigued to see how good these things are, how expensive it is to wire it in. ah I don't know if you know if you've done one before. or i haven't. But again, it depends on the future. Like my house,
00:28:16
Speaker
I don't regret where I put my fusible because it just makes total sense for that. It was the easiest place to put it in the build. It's really accessible. Yeah. Actually for future stuff, it can't really get too much to it. Yeah. So again, if you could get like your house, you you could run it down your side access. It wouldn't even matter if it's unattractive because there's nothing down there. Yeah.
00:28:33
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And you could run it into, I assume you just run it straight back into this meter type thing. Yeah. Then it just feeds it into the actual, I don't know how it works. I think there was like, it looked like like a little,
00:28:44
Speaker
Sounds very technical. A box that it all went into and then it then went into your fuse board. So I'm guessing it then powers whatever you're using. That's so cool. I know you can get like batteries and bits and pieces like that. I don't know how good they are for like, because obviously the hardest thing about solar, right, is you can only use it during the day. Yeah. When you've used it, it's done, isn't it? The storage is the hard part Oh, yeah. and So I've seen my brother's got a garden room. i think it's the one he's just started.
00:29:11
Speaker
And in their garage, they've got a Tesla power bank thing. And that's yeah linked up to loads of things on the flat roof, um solar things. And I was like, whoa, that's awesome. You can see this like a huge unit. And I've seen that cable run back to the fusible. yeah I've just never paid attention to like how it works. But that's probably like 100 grand.
00:29:28
Speaker
Well, I was thinking about like your brother's garden rooms because I thought, but what how perfect would that be? like I don't know how much they use. I suppose it depends what not a lot stuff they have in there. But can you imagine you have a garden room and it just pays for itself? Oh, imagine i easily do that. Some days it probably doesn't where it's like...
00:29:47
Speaker
You know, i thought I'm not up with the solar and how much light and stuff you have, but it's getting better and better and they can harness more and more power even on like cloudy days. But yeah, can you imagine like when your brother's garden rooms, it just pounds itself? Yeah, I mean, there's hardly any power coming out of We actually run a six mil cable to it because they're usually quite far away or sometimes even a 10 mil if they've got bathrooms and stuff. But um generally they don't take lot power. There's like 10 lights in their max, like three watts, a fridge, a The big thing is probably a storage heater that works off of Wi-Fi. Yeah. um But generally, there's no power. So I imagine that would totally be free. Yeah. It would hardly any wattage a year. No, exactly. And when do you use a garden room? like Most of the time, you use it the summer, right? Yeah, although a lot of people actually either have it as a home office these days or a gym. yeah So a gym, not that much. But home office, I guess you could use five times a week or three times a week yeah or whatever. But yeah, genius. I mean, it's definitely worth people looking into.
00:30:43
Speaker
Yeah. See if we can do some more digging. yeah We said we want to do a couple of different episodes, don't we? Yeah. And about just random stuff like that. So maybe we could, if anyone has any ideas for some stuff, maybe we can look into it. i Yeah. I really want to get into AI. A, because it really annoys you. And I swear you hate it. Yeah. So I want to do our little episode on that, and whether it can like impact construction and DIY to
AI's Role in Construction and DIY
00:31:04
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a degree. I don't see how can impact DIY too much without us having millions in the bank. Yeah.
00:31:09
Speaker
I think I'm guessing you could ask it questions. Yeah. So maybe it would be helpful for DIYers. Yeah. I can't really ever see it being able to take, it's not going to do a rewire, is it? No, exactly. I mean, you can get these like ones that,
00:31:26
Speaker
to lay blocks and bricks and stuff. Yeah, I've seen those. But again, it's so specific, I imagine. and and what it has to be on the world's perfect building site. Yeah. And probably just like 10 men following behind it. Yeah. I'm sure it's all right. Well, everything's probably got to be level right. The machinery must cost an absolute fortune. And then you've got to get it to where you need to use it right so i could imagine it looks cool but lot of these things just aren't financially viable like yeah you can what would you pay a bricklayer to that brick and also the irony bricklayers are bloody rapid yeah seeing these days they're just like they're sort of there's like a little competition there's like 500 bricks or something like yeah jesus you're absolutely rapid i was gonna say it's like 500 a day and don't they get like a pound of brick or something yeah i don't think you need to motivate those guys no yeah they're fine they're not slackers
00:32:09
Speaker
They're laughing these stupid little machines doing like 300 or something. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, we should get a bricky up. Yeah. Not that DIY, but we've now done the Sparky, done a plumber. Yeah. need some more trades on as well as our mix. A brick person? A brick person, oh yeah.
00:32:25
Speaker
So yeah, I just found that very interesting and just thought I'd ask you because I know you're Sparky. Well, I obviously didn't know that much, but I know a little bit. Yeah. But yeah, so I've also had a couple of things come in. So I'm being really transparent on this, not how the money I'm spending, which is starting to scare the bejesus out of me. But I've had a couple of offers, but typically I always have a project like this and then loads of client work that this could be applicable for and I've got nothing. A patio company has basically said, we'll supply all the stuff to a patio, obviously, and you just pay for the labor. Are you interested? And I'm just like, ah.
00:33:01
Speaker
damn it i need a new patio i could do my oh i could do yours if you want um they're literally so they're actually being probably shouldn't say this in they're listening but they're being quite annoying as well i'm just like oh i don't have anything meantime they're like well how much to come to like our sites and do it i'm like oh but i don't think if i do that the content will be very good have you got before shots got during shot they're like no but it'll be fine i'm like trying to help you out here yeah say i'm charging you x and i come around just film some random slabs no i was gonna So they want you to film their social content. Basically. They just want to say, these are the slab shoes. I got them from here. Yeah. They're a little small company, but I always prefer, um a I never use anyone i haven't trusted. So haven't vetted them or anything yet. Yeah. I just think it's so much more natural to be like, well, I'm doing the patio. Yeah.
00:33:45
Speaker
Here's before, here's the rip out, here's the progress and here's the final shot. I got it from this company. It just works so much better. It's got way more potential for them to get good views as well. so Yeah.
00:33:56
Speaker
Mate, if you want to do yours. Mate, I'm willing to sell out. You know that. Straight away. Okay. I mean, I don't even know. They haven't even mentioned money, but I can certainly get your square footage and go through it. Yeah, that'd be amazing. So that that at the moment is sort of a dead end for me, but maybe not for you. Maybe maybe the first perk this podcast for you. amazing. um I've got my tiles free, it seems like. So started ordering tiles and getting those. So again, we're not even at the stud work stage yet. So I'm not panicking until the builders start building stud work in that extension.
00:34:24
Speaker
which is part of the price. And then I'm like, crap, I've got to, it'd be me all going, going ho again. I've got wire, insulate, plaster balls, get it all like, and then even maybe help the plumber do some stuff by the looks of it. so Maybe I need to be your ah assistant again. I need to roll back the years and come down and drill some holes. Stuart, the other day, my car said to me, doesn't Dan owe you a day's labour as well? was like, Wait, does it do it? Does it?
00:34:50
Speaker
I've got a feeling that does ring a bell now you say it. I didn't even remember this. He was like, yeah, you did his, like, under-foreheating or something. I was like, did Yeah, yeah. was like, okay, I'm taking it. There you go, yeah. maybe can rope in. Well, there's a deal, mate.
00:35:02
Speaker
If get you the patio stuff, I wasn't sure too good with it. No, happy to help. So, yeah, I'll come in with the other one. Oh, and I've still i've still got that random um garden seat thing coming. remember that? Oh, yeah. It looks really nice. I just thought it just makes the garden a bit prettier and it's got, like, this little raised, like,
00:35:19
Speaker
bit where my gran used to sit in the sun um although some weird like rabbit and cat things made out stone that probably we have to move why did people buy these things when we moved in there was like like a massive one of those like concrete rollers oh i had one of those here as well how do you get rid of that i know it's car's not up in the bottom of my swimming pool no it's easier for me yeah yeah and i was like it must be i know car's not is no money It's so heavy, there must be money in it. I looked it up, it was like three pounds or something. couldn't even like move it. Would it break the car? Well, that's what I'm thinking. I'm like, am i' not going to be even to able to take it to the tip? Then they'll be like, oh, we're going to have to weigh your car. Yeah, exactly. What did you do with it? It's still there. still in garden. I have no idea.
00:36:02
Speaker
Christy was talking to me about it the other day and I just looked at it. for God's sake. Obviously, that's an old thing, but it must be an old person because my gran had these things. And she had this cat one.
00:36:13
Speaker
Obviously, we have a cat here. And I was like, I'll bring home. And Lydia, my daughter, would, like, my thing is cute. hide it in the garden bushes. And I showed her once. And she just gave me that, like, super weird. That, like, literally meant nothing to her. So now I've just got this weird cat thing. Well, at least I can say was a bit of a grandchild. But I did steal her bench to put in here. So like, I'm just going have to get rid of this cat thing at some point. I was like, an absolute freak.
00:36:38
Speaker
Maybe we could give it away. Anyone want it? Anyone, yeah. I'm assuming it's still down. I've like put it further and further down the garden yeah yeah as it's gone on. So, yeah, so that i'm trying to i've I've got a few things in the pipeline, hopefully to help with the money as well. We're obviously quite lucky with my YouTube channel stuff i do get these random offers, but I also get a lot of tax.
00:36:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And some some people are like, oh promote my Chinese toaster oven for like, we'll give you £4.50 in Amazon vouchers. And was like, oh my God, it burned out people's houses.
00:37:10
Speaker
So I've just got to like make sure I'm doing the, oh, sorry, there is one more. I actually have got quite a good offer, although haven't signed the contract yet. So this company who I have heard of before wants to supply me with an induction hob and an extractor fan um to promote. And even some money as a part of it as well. So it's got the best deal ever because I need to buy those and it's money coming in.
00:37:32
Speaker
But they do a super expensive one. You know, the ones that vent down. Yeah. Oh, yeah. and So I said to them, oh, I'm not being cheeky, but would you want to promote that? Because it's best one you do on the website. And I could actually easily put my induction hob on an external wall. So obviously just, for people that don't know, usually induction hob's obviously electric and then you have an extractor above it to suck up all the grease and rubbish. um So there's these ones in the, they have a little thing in the middle now and it sucks. I don't it seems to me like,
00:37:59
Speaker
Yeah. I've seen those videos where they show the lions going, which probably AI. Yeah. You're like, how legit is that? it must it must be scientifically proven at some point by someone. must do, I always think it must at least do like what, like 50%? Yeah. Which obviously isn't.
00:38:15
Speaker
It's an idea. Maybe it's more than. Yeah, yeah. um I need to look into like I say, but I'm like, I'll put it out them. Would you want to promote that? they haven't got back to me yet. They've sent me a list previously of nice ones. I was like, oh.
00:38:27
Speaker
trying to make this place look like the nuts. And also, extractor fans aren't nice. Or even even like integrated ones, you obviously have to have them raised. There's still a box on the wall, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. So i thought that might look nicer.
00:38:40
Speaker
um And once a few of these little bits start coming in, I feel like I can start planning that kitchen properly and yeah doing bits like that. It's quite cool. That is exciting, isn't it? But yeah, so I'm also, because we off feel like the last video we did, oh the last episode i was just panicking about money constantly but i'm going to get a price from the builder to do that porch properly as well know was saying yeah it's a weird hexagon was going to turn it into a rectangle i was like sure i just get rid of it or should i just keep it as a hexagon but change all the glass um and now i'm thinking now just do what your instinct tells me and again what the house opposite has done and looks lovely yeah it's all about that like so that wow factor of the ensuite and the porch and everything yeah
00:39:22
Speaker
I think you're making the best decision. Yeah. Because you so said it from the start and I do think as soon as you pull up to a house, like or even most of the time, where do you find houses? Right move. And what's the first picture? Normally the front. Yeah, exactly. So if you see something that really grabs your attention, yeah it looks really smart.
00:39:40
Speaker
And it is nice. You're actually reducing the porch in size, but it still, it will be a nice size. And um the ones opposite do look nice. And one of them went for big money, even though it's a bigger house with a bigger garden, it's kind of irrelevant. It went big money over there. And I was like, oh, okay. I mean, I feel like I've got to just copy. it I mean, I could get rid of the porch and it wouldn't look too ugly, but the porch currently has no foundations. I don't know, why can these people do this? and then We have to just go through hell to build everything. We have to dig like 50 metres deep to put like a single store extension in these days. It's gone the other way. It's gone from nothing. And you're like, this has survived like 100 years. Do you keep seeing those? Oh, this is so geeky. My Instagram must be so different from others. But I keep seeing these people moaning about um structure engineers these days. and Oh, really? Steel beams going in and stuff. I saw this house putting one like the one behind you.
00:40:29
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in the Empire State Building. It was like that for just a single store extension. And was a 10-meter steel. I think it was 500 kilograms or 600 kilograms and over half a ton.
00:40:39
Speaker
And the guy's like, he's not propping up anything. Yeah, yeah. I just don't know what's happening. Why? But yeah, obviously the porch does need foundations, but it so it means you're digging, knocking that down, digging down probably the same as the extension, which is bloody annoying. Hopefully I'm wrong about that. um Pouring concrete again, getting a digger in again.
00:40:59
Speaker
building bricks again then putting the new class in. So I think it will look really nice, but it's one those things you're like, oh, there's a porch there and I'm knocking it down, digging and putting a porch there. Another porch there, yeah. It feels stupid. Yeah, but it'll just look so much better. Yeah. Porches are underrated, you know. Yeah. think that, like,
00:41:18
Speaker
stops drafts and it and it looks so smart in the front of a lot of houses. to look How many times is it rain in England where you just need to like run from the car under something for a second yeah and just be like, okay, chill. Because we we haven't got one in our house and in the pipeline, hopefully when we sell grands for money. We can't do it now. um But yeah, we just get soaked so often, we're trying to get in the door. We're holding in Lydia, cat meowing at my feet.
00:41:43
Speaker
Trying to get the right key. Yeah, yeah. And I put balloon cable out the front of my house. There's just a cable like looped out the front of house. I've got to do it. Hopefully not live.
Optimal Timing for Selling Property
00:41:52
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Well, it technically is live, but it's a loop.
00:41:54
Speaker
Okay. But yeah, that is live. So yeah, I don't know if there's anything else. Oh, oh actually there was something. i was just like, damn it for the spreadsheet. yeah um My dad was telling me about the council stuff of the bathroom. So when the council put in the bathroom, because grandma's 94 or wherever it was, they paid for it. But there were some extras, which I don't know what they were. Dad couldn't remember.
00:42:17
Speaker
yeah um So the extras went on the bloody house when it gets sold one day. yeah You bastards. It's only 500 pounds. At the same time, i was like, oh, I didn't know about this. Like, why does it always have to be these things? So annoying, yeah. Especially 500 quid, it's about... I know, and I just got that refund from Thames Water for like 380, was it? I was like, yeah, and there's like, oh, more money. Straight back out, yeah. I was like, goddammit.
00:42:38
Speaker
But no, generally can't complain, but yeah, next week's going to be much better because build one builder's definitely back um because we're filming it, we're recording this now and he is back, and I think the other one must be back soon. I'm going to try and do those pipework runs for the plumber.
00:42:55
Speaker
So then I'm hoping the next week we're have some full bash before all my jobs kick off again. Yeah, I think you'll get solid little run in when you... Yeah, it'd be nice. Yeah, I think that's the thing. You need a bit of time to get going. And when you do, like you just cruise through it. Yeah, because we're... What is this? Week 10. End of week 10 now. Obviously not the most productive week. But yeah it's not that long really, is it? We're not even on three months yet. No. really So I'm not panicking. But I just always feel like selling a house is better...
00:43:22
Speaker
Maybe not summer because people are away, but that like September, October. Yeah. Because then no one wants to do after that because everyone sort of wants to complete by Christmas or whatever. Yeah. Unless you're lucky. Yeah. And also like knowing where that property is, is like that school is so good. Yeah. some renowned school, isn't it? Yeah. right around the corner. So if you can get people going wanting to get getting into that school.
00:43:45
Speaker
But then most people... I don't know, if I had to move for a school, I wouldn't be like trying to move before September, right? Yeah. I'd be doing it a year in advance or something. So maybe we'll hit that sort of right time. Yeah. You never know. i always hear stories about things like we should start like putting something out, like somehow telling people this would be sold. Because everyone just parks out there, parks out there, parks out there when it comes to school time. Yeah.
00:44:12
Speaker
ah you hear about people renting houses and stuff, don't you, near schools? And maybe actually someone would flag it for like someone or a relative or someone. Did I tell you, my mum once sold a house for us. No. For a friend. Oh, amazing. She was like, oh a friend's looking for a bungalow pets with me. mum was like, oh, the boys are doing one. They literally just offered us asking price. We were like, oh, okay, lovely. But we were through an estate agent, dar it so we had to pay them.
00:44:33
Speaker
I was like, geez, I sold the house and we've got to pay you. I signed the contract and everything, but I was still like, oh, well, sales are sales. Exactly, yeah. So, yeah, so i and I'm looking forward to a busy couple of weeks, but um I feel like relaxed on this one and I feel i'm going to have a moment where I start
Balancing Construction Timelines and Client Work
00:44:50
Speaker
panicking again. I'm like, okay, i've got um I need to book out like where I don't go to any other jobs. i need to I've got a kitchen one for a friend. And think once that's gone, and I've got a rewire for my carpenter, and I'm nearly done on that, maybe three days as well.
00:45:05
Speaker
And once they're gone, I really want to book out a couple of weeks and just crack on. yeah Hopefully get loads done. Screw your carpenter, frying me under the bus. i didn He's like, Dan owes you a day. How do you know that?
00:45:16
Speaker
He's going to be you're going to sell your day like of me to him. And he's just going to be working me like an old goat. Oh, but you have to remind about that patio company. I'll tell you what can plug in. Yeah, like it.
00:45:28
Speaker
This is so pathetic. We've only got like, you know, a few hundred listeners around. We're trying to plug as much free stuff as possible. Yes, that is the aim of the podcast. But yeah, then we've got a guest next week, haven't we? Back to a guest. Yeah, really looking forward to next week's guest.
00:45:43
Speaker
It's definitely going to be a good one. Yeah, and got a very simple name, haven't she? Yeah, she has. At Home With Betty. Her name is, I'm surprised by Betty. At Home. Yeah, and she's great as well. She's what we like, a big mixture of loads of DIY, loads of just skilled work, and like a bit of a funny camp, some family stuff as well.
00:46:04
Speaker
and loads of interiors and everything. yeah like Lots of like tips. If you like your DIY, she is definitely like someone you should be following. Yeah. Money saving things and where to buy things as well. Like we saw sneaky affiliate links that people like, yeah a fair play. But yeah, no it's so helpful, isn't it Yeah. To have those sort links. Like, cause how many times you look at something that someone's done, you're like, Oh, that's a nice colored paint. You're like,
00:46:28
Speaker
But you haven't told me what it is. Yeah, exactly. So you got anything else on before then? Not in the moment. We're just finishing off the stairs. So Christy, my wife, has painted the banister. So that's all looking and good. We went for like a sort of matte black colour.
00:46:43
Speaker
Oh, nice. That looks quite smart. um And then we'll be doing like under the stairs sort of storage and then we're doing the... They're finally doing the toilet. The downstairs toilet. Jesus, I threw cables in there like how many years Yeah, yeah. can't remember what hell I've done. You're actually very good because you're like, I got annoyed the day because the cable was like, I couldn't find something and then the cable in there was like tickling my ear I was like, for God's sake. But then, yeah, exactly.
00:47:14
Speaker
That's how I spent my weekend. But yeah, like you always write something there so it's all written and then like i had some i had a ladder in there moved there and you had like a full drawing of all the wiring i did like i don't remember doing that it doesn't sound like me sounds like the guy from like goodwill hunting or something like that but i just don't know how people like we spoke to that sparky before ah people must make serious notes about jobs but i just i take a lot of screenshots and then put it in my favorites on my phone and make notes and stuff but yeah how people hope people don't generally just throw those stuff then just go back and like
00:47:46
Speaker
hell have I done yet. It must be so hard for people like Owen who we've speaking to previously, it just yeah how much, how many jobs he has. Yeah. And even like getting paid with all those jobs, he must do, that's where sometimes he must do like 20 jobs a week. You've got to make sure you get paid, unless he just says, you're paying me at the end of the day. Yeah. just don't know how to do it. And same, I'll annoy my plumber because I'll be like getting him back to do it. And he's, I think he already laid some like pipes already.
00:48:14
Speaker
I'll be oh, you remember where they are. And then we'll be like, mate, that was like three years ago. No way I remember. How long has it actually been? I have no idea when we did that. couple years?
00:48:25
Speaker
Maybe two. Yeah. Maybe two years, maybe three years. yeah To be fair, it couldn't be easier from an electrical point It's just like two lights, presumably, and a switch and a fan, I say, maybe, and a fan. yeah Yeah. We didn't do the fan, though, did we?
00:48:38
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, did we? You even called out the whole... I didn't do that. You must have done that. No, you did that, yeah. Did I? Yeah. Are you sure it wasn't there already? No, it wasn't, no. Gee, I don't have a dick now. So you did that. Are sure you didn't do No, you did that, yeah. do Oh, fine, I'll take it. Oh, yeah, you said if I did it, you would ignore the day and I've got to help you out. That's it.
00:48:58
Speaker
I just don't remember doing it. It's a high corner. It's ages. but Yeah. sped I think um what was there before was an old window. So where my property was, there was like three like really small windows. i think, was it your nan's bungalow, actually, we were talking about, where you removed the cupboard off the wall? There a window. It was this this window. Basically, the builders bricked it up.
00:49:25
Speaker
Oh, so it was in block work or something? Oh, okay. I would have done that. That sounds easy. yeah I can't remember doing anything that hard of yours. Oh, okay. Well, you've got that to come then. Yeah. Yeah. So that should be like fun and games. And i'm going to try and do a lot of it myself. So it could end very badly. and could be good. And guys, keep emailing in, please. so Dan's always good at this spiel. Yeah. Yeah. please reach out, drop us an email to hello at the DIY Guys podcast or drop us a DM.
00:49:57
Speaker
Drop us a DM to the DIY Guys podcast on Instagram. Follow along, share some tips and tricks. We'll definitely keep you up to date with everything. and We'll make sure we'll add a bit more content to this. Yeah, we've had a few questions, actually, so I need to print them out and sort them because we've just been blabbing on about this. And nothing's even happened this week. No, that's not... need to make sure next week, I promise, I will answer some questions and we'll try and help some people, hopefully.
00:50:21
Speaker
maybe Maybe not next week because Betty's on. Oh, yeah. The week after. The week after. We'll definitely do you like a bit of question time show. But nice to see you, mate. Good see you too. And I'll speak to you next week.