pay a man to come round and fit the laminate in the hallway?
Dh is going on holiday with his mates in sept for a week so it will be the perfect opportunity.
We bought the laminate nearly two years ago. It's been piled up in a corner of the dining room for two years. The hallway carpet is 20 years old, it smells of dog and has a 2ft square hole in one corner.
Dh says he will fit it but he needs to remove all the skirting boards first and sand the nasty mahogany varnish off. He wants the laminate to go under the skirting boards not up to them. He never does it, if I mention it he explodes and says he's working hard and doesn't have time.
Not true though. He's a bugger for starting stuff and not finishing. This weekend he's spent the weekend sanding and painting all the external windowsills. He's done a fab job but I'd rather he sorted out the hallway.
He won't be happy if I do it as he'll moan that the skirting boards will need painting with new laminate in situ.
Then there is the threadbare sitting room carpet that I'm not allowed to replace until he gets round to plastering under the bay window. That's been bare brick for two years with no sign of it been sorted. I'd like to get a new carpet down in there while he's away as well but no way can I empty the room of furniture on my own.