Right then, I know this is boring but how much do you reckon it would cost to get someone in to do

[Fillyjonk]

-floor sanding, 25 m sq room / 30 msq room

-paint a tall 25 m sq room

-tile 10 sq m

-redo a saggy 25 m sq ceiling

-oh and convert an entire loft

am in south wales so if any one has any marvellous suggested tradespeople that would be fantastic

I want to get a ballpark idea before I decide how to do it. God I would love to hire someone rather than doing it around 2 small kids.

no idea!

where does your laminate come ito it?!?

we need an extension so badly, I'm scared to even ask the price!

lol at laminate

I have several rooms in my house, you see

oh and am vaguely trying to justify possibly sanding, which I know will be expensive.

ach I dunno, its going to end up with me keeping the crappola carpets, I just know it...

ah c'mon

YES I know its boring

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oh ffs, really?

oh i cannot face decorating with my 2 toddlers

oh feck

We have the most hideous carpet but no floorboards underneath (just concrete and newspaper I think) and is a rented house and we are skint so we are stuck with it. If you get really eco-friendly paints then ds and dd could help you, couldn't they? Could even be fun....

a grand for the bits - ten grand the loft?

really notty

that sounds doable...

I mean not really but...

tick...have you seen the price of auro stuff? This is actually why I haven't done it up to now. I find it very hard to justify buying unecoy paints cos it really is a luxury really, having nice walls that aren't the colour of vomit

but

I have cracked. I can no longer take it. I am off to B&Q

well I am not, as I don't have a car, but by god if I did I would be off to b&q...

most trades wotk on around £120 a day not including materials but if you could a general sort off builder who could do all of it he might cut down the price a bit, tiling is roughly £15 a sq m, our loft we thought would be wuite cheap to do and the cheapest quote was £30k

No, haven't actually looked at prices. They had some interesting pigment stuff in the Green Shop in Salisbury, don't know if that more affordable. It comes as a powder. Not sure what you mix it with but will be looking into it myself soon (have HAD IT with dark-coloured walls in front room - need light and space!!!!)

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Loft Conversions between £20 - 30K as ballpark

Decorating a room, Just had three rooms done. Just painting walls, ceiling and woodwork and wooden floor was £300 plus materials. Lining the walls and then painting worked out at more like £400 per room

Floor sanding, don't know, but we did it ourselves, and though messy, only cost the hire of the sander , materials and lots of elbow grease

Replastering/repairing a ceiling would be approx £500 at least.

HTH

Look, not wishing to overly depress anybody, but paint continues to give off whatever it is that it gives off for at least 5 years.

OMG. This is making depressing reading.

I, like Fillyjonk, am on a total refurb. But as this is the ninth house I have lived in since marriage (13 years ago), PLUS the fact that it needs just about everything doing to it and we are not exactly flush, I am rapidly losing the will to live. When faced with so much, I don't know where to start, and also considered getting in decorators etc.

Anyone know a rough estimate of how much installation on a new bathroom may be? Simple bath, sink, toilet. Small bathroom, but would also need hideous and skanky green suite removing.

Pissed off because don't even own the house (goes with DH's job), but simply could NOT live in it the way it is.

oh god

hmmm

what about poster paint? is there a particular reason why people don't do their walls with poster pauint?

It wouldn't be waterproof and would probably work out more expensive than one would imagine. My grandfather once decorated his walls with printing ink - it was wet for years. Actually, I'm not sure it ever dried....

Bathroom refit, approx £5K is the most recent quote my Dad got to redo his.

lol

standard victorian terrace. probably couple of windows

we don't want to skimp really-we'll put it off rather than do it on the cheap IYKWIM

want to biuld house....

grumpy - we had bath installed, flooring changed, new toilet and basin installed (latter moved), some new tiling; damp course needed to be installed; separate shower, lighting, ceiling etc left as they were. All painted.

Whole lot cost i think 6000 3 years ago. Non-eco paint i'm afraid.

nb our local council has a 'scrapstore' where you can go and pick up paint people have left at dump. Free. This doesn't alter chemical issues but at least reduces a) cost and b) impact of manufacturing on environment. They also do tiles, wallpaper etc. Ask around, people have an amazing amount of stuff tucked away.

would agree it's worth offloading kids and doing sanding yourself, that's a 1-day job i guess [last did this 8 years ago so have forgotten how awful it is emoticon]

floor sanding, 25 m sq room / 30 msq room

Sanding and polishing, £400

paint a tall 25 m sq room

£800

tile 10 sq m

£250 + materials

redo a saggy 25 m sq ceiling

depends on the problem

oh and convert an entire loft

25-30k

Basic bathroom refurb, 2k if you know the person

4-5k if you don't know anyone and are just looking up in Yellow Pages

I am feeling the life draining away from me. Can I really live with a skanky green bathroom - it looks like it was used in 'The Young Ones' (80's TV version, not Cliff's bouncy little film)