reno #4 update

It’s a funny thing.  You agree to buy a place, thinking all you’ll need to do is throw around some paint, plus maybe some new light fittings.  Then you start looking a bit closer and before you know it, you’ve decided you absolutely MUST completely renovate, a la the Taj Mahal. 

This has happened in our case.  We’d decided we would replace the toilet and the bathroom cabinet.  Then we got a quote for getting the tiles resurfaced.  When SO saw the quote, he hit the roof.  As he pointed out, we could get the bathroom retiled for not much more.  So, that’s what we’re doing.  The whole bathroom is going to  be redone – new fixtures and fittings, new loo, cabinet, shower screen, hot water system, you name it, it’ll be replaced.  The whole damn lot.

Tentative costings show it’ll probably cost us in the realm of $6K, which is obviously about $5,500 more than we’d originally planned on spending.  However, as SO says, we’ll be able to depreciate it for tax purposes, so that will be a bonus.  Plus it will look nice, which will mean we can charge decent rent for it.

Anyhow, at this point in time, SO has removed all the floor tiles, which is the majority of the hard work we’ll need to do.  We’ll get there tomorrow and get into the wall tiles, which hopefully won’t take too long to remove.  The plumber is coming at 11am to fix a few things and disconnect the hot water system, then it’ll be full steam ahead organising a tiler, cabinetmaker, etc etc.  Fun times.

Heh.  We weren’t exactly planning for this to happen when we bought, that’s for sure.  Oh well, good thing we like a challenge.  I’ll make sure to take lots of photos for a before-and-after post when we’re done.