Booking for next year is a great idea but I strongly suspect my school will ask us to run holiday catch up lessons for year 11 next year so I'm reluctant to book anything.
Even more of a reason to book something now before you are asked to give up any more of your holiday time to do it!
£280 today on scaffolding.
£880 to pay on Monday for the house painter.
It hasn't been done in 25 years so if it lasts anywhere near that long I'll be too old to care (or possibly even see) if it looks like it needs doing again. :)
Expensive year.
DH agreed initially to £8k for new windows and doors. Then cancelled when a local good firm would do them for £5.5k. They've done a good job. And we decided to still spend the other £2.5k on the house.
So far we've had
New bedroom carpet, bed and wallpaper in our room.
The doors and windows.
Garage roof repaired.
Repainted cupboards and walls in the kitchen.
And a patio down by the summer house.
Most of which we've done ourselves.
Scaffolding all round house if we wanted to do it ourselves would have been £750. Paint etc £100 nearly. And our roofline goes to a very high peak on the front, so it would be three storeys high for reaching the very top.
Scaffolding just over garage and the painter coming with all the stuff and doing it all himself inc painting the built in concrete guttering and the cast iron down pipes is coming in at £1160.
It's worth the £400 to not have to do it myself and to have it done professionally. DH can't do ladders well as his false leg falls off if he tries!