My running list of things to do – will no doubt get longer as well as shorter. I started off trying to make a list of things I need to do immediately but it ended up being an overall task list and none of the stuff that I need to do this week made it – typical!
Outside
- Install outside light (front)
- Install outside light (back)
- Install outside socket (front)
- Install outside socket (back)
- Move outside tap
- Paint house
- Install chimney cowls
- Do something about the cracked roof tiles
- Clear gutters
- Clear moss from top of porch overhang thing
- Replace lead supply pipe
Garden
- Get planning permission for driveway ✓
- Protect tree ✓
- Knock down wall ✓ (prep ✓)
- Build new pillars ✓
- Dig out driveway ✓
- Install driveway (half done)
- Empty and get rid of shed ✓
- Buy and put up new shed
- Build fence
- Treat gate
- Get new oil tank? Remove all oil tank ✓
- Fix cracked path
- Build new path around extension
- Remove compost heap ✓
- Move all the existing trees and bushes around
- Build bin store
- Remove ‘rockery’
- Do something with all the leaves
- Remove coal bunker
- Breakup cement platform?
Hall
- Remove wallpaper✓
- Remove ceiling paint✓
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Strip woodwork
- Strip bannister
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Flooring
- Move telephone / ADSL point
- Build storage understairs
- Remove angled wall / coat cupboard ✓
- Replace front door
- Remove vestibule door ✓
- Add power point
- Add smoke detector
- Replace radiator
- Get new switchboard ✓
- Get electricity meter changed✓
- Get doorbell
WC
- Get building regs approval ✓
- Create downstairs WC
- Install toilet
- Install sink
- Install extractor fan
- Flooring
- Install towel rail
- Install toilet roll holder
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Tiling
- Lighting
- Install shaver point
Kitchen / Dining room
- Remove wallpaper
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Remove boxing (75%)
- Remove half wall
- Strip woodwork
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Remove extra pipes
- Rip out kitchen cabinets ✓
- Get range checked out / swept✓
- Replace broken hearth tiles
- Replace grate ✓
- Strip mantelpiece ✓
- Paint mantelpiece ✓
- Strip range ✓
- Blacken range ✓
- Remove back boiler + block up hole
- Pull up vinyl floor tiles✓
- Fix broken floorboards
- Do something with cement tiled floor
- Do something with rest of flooring
- Lighting
- Curtains
- Rewire
- Replace radiator
- Get building regs approval ✓
- Move door into kitchen (lintel in load bearing wall) ✓
Extension
- Get planning permission ✓
- Get building regs approval ✓
- RSJ
- Build extension
- Replace boiler
- New kitchen
- Paint walls, ceiling, woodwork
- Flooring
- Tiling
- Electrics
- Plumb washing machine, dishwasher, sink
- Install tumbledryer
- Curtains
- Install radiator
Living room
- Remove wallpaper ✓
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Strip woodwork
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Flooring
- Lighting
- Curtains?
- Rewire
- Get chimney checked out / swept ✓
- Add wood burning stove (half done) ✓
- Change mantle piece
- Fix seal in French doors / Replace French doors with window
- Replace radiator with vertical one / Install new radiator under window
- Replace door
Stairs
- Remove wallpaper✓
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Strip woodwork
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Reinstate dado rail (maybe)
- Install new light
- Flooring
- Fix handrails
Bedroom One
- Remove wallpaper✓
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Strip woodwork
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Flooring
- Lighting
- Curtains
- Rewire (first fix ✓)
- Remove built in cupboard ✓
- Install built in wardrobe
- Replace radiator
- Fix broken floorboards
- Replace door
Bedroom Two
- Remove wallpaper✓
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Strip woodwork
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Flooring
- Lighting
- Curtains
- Rewire (first fix ✓)
- Replace radiator
- Replace door
Bedroom Three
- Remove wallpaper✓
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Strip woodwork
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Flooring
- Curtains
- Rewire (first fix ✓)
- Replace radiator
- Add cupboard to alcove (maybe)
- Fix broken floorboard
- Replace door
Bathroom
- Get building regs approval ✓
- Remove wallpaper ✓
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Remove dividing wall between bathroom and toilet ✓
- Replace bath (currently has cigarette burn)
- Replace sink or hang it (pedestal is cracked)
- Replace toilet
- Remove electric over bath shower
- Remove radiator
- Block up toilet door
- Replace door
- Install separate shower (lintel in load bearing wall)
- Tiling
- Install towel rail
- Replace toilet
- Sort out missing floorboards / damp
- Create some bathroom storage
- Hang mirror
- Hang toilet roll and hand towel holders
- Lighting
- Install shaver point
- Install extractor fan / shower light
Upstairs Landing
- Remove wallpaper✓
- ‘Make good’ walls
- Strip woodwork
- Paint walls
- Paint ceiling
- Paint woodwork
- Flooring
- Rewire
- Remove immersion heater ✓
- Remove hot water cylinder and cupboard
- Add smoke detector
Loft
- Remove previous occupant’s junk✓
- Increase hatch size✓
- Install ladder✓
- Remove cold water tank
- Insulate
- Board for storage
- Add light and sockets
People
- Engage an architect / CAD technician ✓
- Engage a stonemason ✓
- Engage a landscaper ✓
- Engage a builder ✓
- Engage a plumber ✓
- Engage an electrician ✓
- Engage a plasterer ✓
- Engage a joiner ✓
- Engage a windows installer ✓
- Engage a carpet / flooring installer ✓