We camped in our place in France for ages. So I knowhow they feel but then we didn't live there all year round.Too right I will.
The awful truth is that they have been in that house about a year and they are still "camping".
My son is a DIY dufus (did not get the DIY gene) and so pays through the nose for "professionals".
He had a quote for the garden fencing and Patio that was over £10K. It has cost a lot less with me and Tom doing it.
Materials costs + Tom @ £150/day and me a £0/day. LOL.
Granddaughter's room needs a fitted wardrobe making, and then decorating and carpeting.
Their main bedroom need a total re-hash, and the garage needs turning into a man-cave/work-from-home office.
Tom won't be available again until September, and I shall be "busy" doing my own stuff.
To begin with, the kitchen was a metal shelving unit, a kettle, a toaster, a microwave, and a barbecue. We had two plastic bowls, one for washing up and one for washing ourselves!
The loo was connected to the waste with a flexi and it was flushed from the mains via a watering hose, at 7 bar!
The bedroom was a mattress on the floor. and two sleeping bags. We had no electricity for the first time we were over there, with snow on the ground, hence the generator!
Trades are a heck of a price and Tom is charging a decent rate.
Don't know why your son bought a house that needs so much work. My first wife and I made a real effort to always buy a place that needed nothing, or very little doing. We managed to buy three houses like that.
Still managed to find things to do on them!
Did far more since second marriage!
Think you either do DIY or you don't. My Dad was feckin hopeless, altho a brill decorator. Both Grandpas were engineers and one of them designed and built a "bungalow", made in sections and transported up to a spot on top of the cliffs some way from Hull. We'd call it a chalet nowadays.
It burned down, (holiday tenants) so he built another, bigger, better .....mad sod!
Look forward to a well-deserved time off!
