{"id":1136,"date":"2009-09-05T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2017-06-26T06:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T06:18:53","slug":"last-saturday-from-my-e400-budget-for-my-attic-i-spent-e354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 5th September 2009 – LAST SATURDAY, FROM MY…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"laminate<\/a>… \u20ac400 budget for my attic, I spent \u20ac354<\/p>\n

Mind you, that didn’t include the shower base that never made it as far as the cash desk so that’s about quits.<\/p>\n

Today, out of my \u20ac400 budget, I spent …. er …. \u20ac578.<\/p>\n

I did get the shower base though, so you can knock \u20ac38 off that total, but I also made an unexpected expenditure of \u20ac170 while I was at Brico Depot.<\/p>\n

I’m intending to put down on the floor some of this tongue-and-grooved laminated flooring and I had my eye on some at \u20ac5.74 per square metre, of which I shall be wanting about 28. But today, in the clearance lot was some at \u20ac3.67 per square metre. And not a miserable 4mm thickness or even a decent 6mm, but a whacking great 7mm. <\/p>\n

Now I don’t think much of the style or the colour but there’s absolutely no dispute about the quality of the stuff. And I have to do what I can to get my budget back under some sort of control, so I can live with the colour and style at this kind of price and this kind of quality. I wasn’t going to miss out.<\/p>\n

I also have the bathroom to do eventually and I was planning on tiling it, which would cost an arm and a leg. So when I saw some of this plastic tongue-and-grooving on special offer – just enough to do the bathroom and for just \u20ac56, then again in the interests of expediency and budget I wasn’t going to miss out.<\/p>\n

I don’t like the stuff, especially as it’s pink marble, and the bathroom will probably end up looking like a tart’s boudoir, but it’s not as if I’ll be spending much time in there and it will do the job as well as anything else, especially at that price.<\/p>\n

I ended up with 18mm OSB for the attic floor. That was the thickest they had and they seem to think that it will be perfect for the job. The reason why I went for OSB over chipboard is because having done the barn floor in chipboard and remembering how heavy the 2.8 x 1.4 sheets were and how I’m going to have to maul them up a ladder, the smaller and lighter 1.7 x 0.65 sheets will be much easier to handle.<\/p>\n

I made three trips around Brico Depot today – a record. On the third trip through the checkout the young girl on duty there asked me if I had a lorry. <\/p>\n

They ask you for your postcode when you go through the checkout and while I agree with Dave that it’s an invasion of privacy, it it helps bring a branch of Brico Depot closer to me then I’m all for it. The checkout girl was quite cute and when she asked me for my postcose I told her that she could have my address as long as she came round to help me fit it all. Ahh well, I have to keep trying … “You’re certainly very trying” – ed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When I finished loading up Caliburn I went back inside the shop to get a coffee. She saw me coming back and hid behind her till. Serve her right.<\/p>\n

I also spent a few bob in LIDL. I popped into the one by the bridge over the Cher at Montlucon, and they still had 7 of the 12-volt LEDs. Not any more, they don’t.<\/p>\n

And in other more ominous news, the temperature in the heat exchanger dropped to 3 degrees last night. Winter is acumen in<\/span>.<\/p>\n

-5<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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