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To ask the fitters to stop fitting my floor today

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Ncfgjdo · 25/04/2023 05:54

So this situation is absolutely ridiculous and I am perfectly aware that my pregnancy hormones are clouding my judgement here and I'm in an incredibly fortunate position, but I could really be doing with some urgent WWYD advice as I am so stressed over this. I am 33 weeks pregnant and have moved into a complete renovation project (not ideal I realise!). The last few weeks since I got the keys I've had to make a lot of quick (expensive) decisions re the design of the house to allow me to get in to it before the baby's born. I'd thought that would be really fun and exciting, but I'm actually really starting to feel pretty stressed over the whole thing and no longer trust my own judgement. I'm becoming quite teary and doubting every decision I make. One of the major outlays has been flooring. It accounts for a significant lump sum of the budget and the fitters started work yesterday and will complete today. As soon as I saw the flooring down it looked completely different from I had thought it would from when I saw it in the shop. I did immediately mention this to the fitters but they assured me it was the correct one. I'm not blaming anyone else here but me, as I do appreciate flooring looks different in natural/ artificial light etc but I immediately hated it. It really looks nothing like I thought it would. They are about halfway done. Should I call the shop and ask them to stop and at least try to salvage some of the unused packets of flooring? (It's herringbone design and there's a LOT of it as the floor space is massive) or should I let them finish and suck it up and not lose thousands of £?) I'm so angry at myself for making the wrong choice and of course I'm not suggesting that I don't pay for the flooring or wiggle out of fitting fees etc. I also realise this is causing me way more distress than it should- my hormones are all over the place.

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Ncfgjdo · 29/04/2023 11:50

Without getting into a whole new side discussion about the order of works in the house now... I can assure you it's all in hand and correctly ordered 🤣 the agreement was for the floors to be fitted under the skirtings (clear from order confirmation paperwork). Anyway- the flooring is to come up and refitted properly. A good resolution.

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Zonder · 29/04/2023 12:00

Hope you end up with a lovely floor soon.

Saxendastarter · 29/04/2023 12:09

I too hope you end up with a lovely floor and and that when you take photos of you soon to be born baby taking first steps on it you can look and the floor in the background and smile ;-)

Roselilly36 · 29/04/2023 12:38

So pleased, OP. I am sure it will look wonderful once it’s done.

weirdoboelady · 29/04/2023 12:54

Excellent - let's hope they send some competent workpeople this time!

ReadersD1gest · 29/04/2023 12:57

Ncfgjdo · 29/04/2023 11:50

Without getting into a whole new side discussion about the order of works in the house now... I can assure you it's all in hand and correctly ordered 🤣 the agreement was for the floors to be fitted under the skirtings (clear from order confirmation paperwork). Anyway- the flooring is to come up and refitted properly. A good resolution.

Oh, I'm so glad for you. Here's hoping it all goes smoothly this time!

Popuppilot · 30/04/2023 14:49

Appreciate you giving us the closure OP.

Bambi7 · 15/05/2023 19:24

Ncfgjdo · 25/04/2023 06:05

So picture 1 is what I thought it would be like and 2 is it down- I thought it would be more of a bleached natural tone.

I think it's gorgeous and I'm very particular about these things - I'm renovating a house too.

Bambi7 · 15/05/2023 19:25

Ncfgjdo · 25/04/2023 06:05

So picture 1 is what I thought it would be like and 2 is it down- I thought it would be more of a bleached natural tone.

Picture 2 is 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

LookItsMeAgain · 16/05/2023 08:46

Ncfgjdo · 29/04/2023 11:50

Without getting into a whole new side discussion about the order of works in the house now... I can assure you it's all in hand and correctly ordered 🤣 the agreement was for the floors to be fitted under the skirtings (clear from order confirmation paperwork). Anyway- the flooring is to come up and refitted properly. A good resolution.

@Ncfgjdo - have they finished laying the new floors for you? Hopefully everything is sorted for you now and you've got the floors you asked for originally.

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