HAHAHAHAHAHA! WOOHOOO!!! (got the keys to a new place)
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Found my phone cable!
Hallway gains from not being boxed in, pc desk under the stairs rather than take up a whole room with computer crap (which i can quite easily do!
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Been working my way through the sheds so i can put the power back on in them (easier to run tools from a socket than a mile of extension lead) and i've had to cut out and rejoin a "few" bits ...
How not to spend the second night, solder joint popped in the living room. Landlord and workman were there by 9am the following morning. Didn't need the heating the first night, bulbs in the kitchen were enough to keep the house warm, not had decent walls in years!)
Living room was really opened up by removing the fireplace, gives us an extra 2 foot across the room.
^^ i'll get the wall bracket sorted soon, honest!
Kitchen has turned out nicely, definitely keeping the white walls, might change to a black worktop some time next year though (our original colour scheme)
Seem to have lost a few pics on the Flickr pages today, uploaded 10 pics and the first 7 vanished!
Got a few projects to be getting on with now
Hallway gains from not being boxed in, pc desk under the stairs rather than take up a whole room with computer crap (which i can quite easily do!
)
Been working my way through the sheds so i can put the power back on in them (easier to run tools from a socket than a mile of extension lead) and i've had to cut out and rejoin a "few" bits ...
How not to spend the second night, solder joint popped in the living room. Landlord and workman were there by 9am the following morning. Didn't need the heating the first night, bulbs in the kitchen were enough to keep the house warm, not had decent walls in years!)
Living room was really opened up by removing the fireplace, gives us an extra 2 foot across the room.
^^ i'll get the wall bracket sorted soon, honest!
Kitchen has turned out nicely, definitely keeping the white walls, might change to a black worktop some time next year though (our original colour scheme)
Seem to have lost a few pics on the Flickr pages today, uploaded 10 pics and the first 7 vanished!
Got a few projects to be getting on with now
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Lovely work fella you should look to buy this place when you can. How long has it taken you to do each room?
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What stops the landlord deciding to sell the property once you've done it up?
I would guess nothing. Hopefully the land lord will see all the hard work and care taken in the house and think he’s got one long term tenant. Like I said before I personally would look to buy this place from him if you can. I would hate to see all your hard work to go to someone else.
Landlord has spent god knows how much (labourers wages, etc) but our outlay was about £500 on the wood flooring, £60 on lighting (not finished yet either), £150 on paint and the rest (cooker, fridge, beds, etc) is stuff you'd need to do with an unfurnished place anyway.
Not a clue on the time taken in reality, a lot of it was just waiting for the landlords builders to show up again. I'd get a flurry of activity and lots would get done and then i wouldn't see them for a month.
What stops the landlord deciding to sell the property once you've done it up?
This subject has been touched upon "once or twice" already in this thread.
Congratulations! The before pics are quite nasty! 
My house is in a similar state, not quite so bad, but similar. We have wood paneling on several walls, an awful tiled bathroom with green suite, built in vanity unit (which incidentally is in the bath in bits at the moment after a pipe behind it burst on Tuesday night - having a new boiler fitted and it just blew water through a knackered old pipe at mains pressure), and beige carpet, 70's artexing on just about every ceiling, wood chip on every wall, dodgy wiring and an awful kitchen with next to no storage.
The best thing is we have no money to sort it out at the moment! Yay!
My house is in a similar state, not quite so bad, but similar. We have wood paneling on several walls, an awful tiled bathroom with green suite, built in vanity unit (which incidentally is in the bath in bits at the moment after a pipe behind it burst on Tuesday night - having a new boiler fitted and it just blew water through a knackered old pipe at mains pressure), and beige carpet, 70's artexing on just about every ceiling, wood chip on every wall, dodgy wiring and an awful kitchen with next to no storage.
The best thing is we have no money to sort it out at the moment! Yay!
You could always do the labourious side of it ready for when you got cash? Stripping out old rubbish you don't want, rubbing down woodwork etc?
That's the stage we're at!
And of course now she wants me to start playing with the sheds 
Heh, nice stuff but I'm not sure I'd spend that much on rented property as a tenant. My own landlord said he'd pay for decorating on the flat I just moved into and do the physical work himself (he's an engineer\builder primarily, his rental properties are a secondary thing).
Won't have cash for a while yet - a £4k boiler install/heating system overhaul put paid to that. The next thing our house needs is rerwiring really, then the decoration can begin.
That's the stage we're at!
Those sheds will be immense fun to destroy. I love sledge/club hammering/pickaxing/crow-barring things!
I recommend you purchase a Gorilla Bar pry bar from Focus - it was more useful than a sledge hammer for removing an old concrete path in my back garden.
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I cant wait to find a house in need of a bit of work to use as my project. If I get it half way as good as your job I would be happy.