Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
The agreed price for the new bed for the guest room was £399.
How come it is now costing £740.
How come it is now costing £740.
Wife's, how do they manage it?
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does the shop also sell shoes:smirk:
HotDogAssassin
Tour Rookie
Mattress included in the £399?
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Yes!!!! We don't get too many guests.
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MetalMickie
Guest
At that price for the bed you had better start charging those guests you do get.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Well it started out as a bed but some how an upgrade,drawers, duvet, valances, pillowcases etc were added to it.
Thank goodness for Laura Ashley, the curtains still look good.
Thank goodness for Laura Ashley, the curtains still look good.
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thecraw
Guest
My wife went to the January sales and came back having ordered a new sofa! No discussion, no hint, no nothing just a huge dent in my (well our) savings. Hence the new floor, skirting and me painting all weekend!!!!!!!
:rant:
:rant:
Andy808
Tour Winner
We went from getting a new toilet as the one we have has a cracked top on the cistern costing £150 to a whole new bathroom suite, bathroom changed around, retiled, tiling the floor and new towels etc to go in it. So far I have got the bath she wants, the toilet, hand basin and built the base for the hand basin costing 700 quid! We haven't even started on tiles and the bits I need to move everything around or taps!
And I wonder why I can't afford a nice new driver. :mmm:
And I wonder why I can't afford a nice new driver. :mmm:
WideEyedFox
Assistant Pro
Guests get the camping bed.
£30 from Argos. If they don't like it there is the floor, or they are welcome to use a B&B.
We don't get many people stay. Which is a bonus as it means you don't have to wait for them to finish in the bathroom or cook them breakfast!
£30 from Argos. If they don't like it there is the floor, or they are welcome to use a B&B.
We don't get many people stay. Which is a bonus as it means you don't have to wait for them to finish in the bathroom or cook them breakfast!
Khamelion
Tour Winner
Draw front fell off on one the kitchen draws, thought it was going to be a quick fix, but the runner s were knackered, went to B&Q to get new runners, didn;t do them as runners were no longer made, had to buy new draw, didn't fit the old unit, had to buy new unit, only to find that the previous owners of the house and bodged together a kitchen and the over was not attached to anything to keep it in place.
Needless to say from wanting a single draw front, we ended up with:-
New kitchen units
new cooker and hob and extractor
New Tiles
New floor
walls painted
new skirting
new blinds, the old ones didn't match anymore
Me and my dad did all the work but from a £15 draw repair to a £1,500 quid replacement kitchen
Needless to say from wanting a single draw front, we ended up with:-
New kitchen units
new cooker and hob and extractor
New Tiles
New floor
walls painted
new skirting
new blinds, the old ones didn't match anymore
Me and my dad did all the work but from a £15 draw repair to a £1,500 quid replacement kitchen
6inchcup
Journeyman Pro
i had a customer come in to the shop on saturday looking for a cheap bathroom job,when i told him we didn't do cheap and cheerful his wife's eyes grew bigger,after an hour she had chosen everything she would like and subject to a survey it will cost nearly £9k,the husband asked if we did stuff that looked expensive but was budget price as he only wanted to spend £3k as he wanted a motor bike with the pfi money!!! guess he isn't getting a bike then.
DappaDonDave
Journeyman Pro
My wife went to the de vere at lunch to price up a membership for me.
Appears to be one of a kind lol I am wondering what I've done wrong!
Appears to be one of a kind lol I am wondering what I've done wrong!
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Bed has arrived and it looks great.
Trouble is the duvet covers clash a bit with the headboard..........so I'm told.
My Mrs is great with money, quite careful really. It's just every now and again she has a wee spending spree
Trouble is the duvet covers clash a bit with the headboard..........so I'm told.
My Mrs is great with money, quite careful really. It's just every now and again she has a wee spending spree
Idlenorth1
Head Pro
My missus has been on maternity leave for 4 months now and her and t'internet are dangerous, even the postman has asked me how many more packages are arriving because she is working him too hard
palindromicbob
Tour Winner
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
My daughter moved into a new flat in December. We asked her what she wanted as a "house warming" present, she replied that she would like some nice new cutlery. So off Sam and I go one Sunday looking around the various shops.
Eventually, we find ourselves in "Next". No cutlery that we liked, but Sam spotted a lovely dining table. She kept going back to it.
We came home, she pulls out her laptop....she's now on the Next website.
Long and the short of it? We are now the proud owners of that lovely dining table. Together with the matching sideboard. And the matching bookcase. Of course, the dining chairs we had wouldn't go with the new table. So we have new chairs as well.
Total cost?? Somewhere just over £1,500.00.
And of course, the dining room had to be re-decorated as it "just wouldn't look right" with the new stuff.
Bloody expensive cutlery.
Eventually, we find ourselves in "Next". No cutlery that we liked, but Sam spotted a lovely dining table. She kept going back to it.
We came home, she pulls out her laptop....she's now on the Next website.
Long and the short of it? We are now the proud owners of that lovely dining table. Together with the matching sideboard. And the matching bookcase. Of course, the dining chairs we had wouldn't go with the new table. So we have new chairs as well.
Total cost?? Somewhere just over £1,500.00.
And of course, the dining room had to be re-decorated as it "just wouldn't look right" with the new stuff.
Bloody expensive cutlery.
Khamelion
Tour Winner
It normally starts with HID wanting to redecorate, that mixed with bordem and school holidays are fatal. In the past I've come home to find a wall half stripped paper all over the floor and her with her feet up watching last nights casualty.
The job inevitably gets finished by me, the last time she did this the old plaster was loose and that came off with the wall paper, so instead of justa redecorating job, me and my dad (he is a plasterer) ended up re-plastering the hall, up the stairs and the landing, the door frames then looked tatty, so painted all the walls, I replaced 4 door frames, all the skirting and back moulds, before rehanging the doors.
The job inevitably gets finished by me, the last time she did this the old plaster was loose and that came off with the wall paper, so instead of justa redecorating job, me and my dad (he is a plasterer) ended up re-plastering the hall, up the stairs and the landing, the door frames then looked tatty, so painted all the walls, I replaced 4 door frames, all the skirting and back moulds, before rehanging the doors.
MarkA
Head Pro
Hmmm now think about the last time you changed your shinys, did you stay in budget
