The entire flat im living in is getting a huge make-over.
It's going to be noisy coming months, but on the good side of that is:
- brand new central heating system, but no more sharing with 8 other floors and paying a yearly fee of 380 euro's just for the rent and whatnot of the boilers in the basement of the flat, just 5 bucks a month for my own personal one.
It's a pain to have it all installed since all the radiators will have to be replaced aswell. So everything. and I mean EVERYTHING has to be moved out of the way. Once that is done it will save me at least 500,- a year since im pretty much never cold and I probably wont need heating because of the next point.
- New window and door frames on the front a back side of the appartment...including 2 very decent and heavy new doors and new glass which is almost an inch thick. So more isolation from the world outside...and the other way around. We dont even have half an inch at the moment.
- A new kitchen, and they will repaint the entire place for me aswell. I can even have the other rooms painted if I want, but that wont be necessary. Dont want an extra day of people in my house, and then get high of the paint smell for two weeks.
- Off course the pipes running though the floors for the heating i have now will be removed, so that means more space and I can finally build that extra wall. But more on that in a sec.
- The best point is......It wont cost me a thing. Renting has it's good sides. In september i'll be living here 3 years. So not bad at all to get a free make-over. Also the total monthly fee for living here will go down with 80 euro since that is what im paying for that bloody shared heating crap im not even using.
They have started this week, which was very noticeable since this huge crane had appeared when I got home earlier today. He took my parking spot....the nerve!
And here a pic of the old and rotty window frames + crappy doors and windows that leak an immense amount of air.
At times my floor in the hall was frozen behind the front door. It's that bad.
After they are done in my place in week 22 (end of may), which should be about 3 or 4 days (they do 3 to 4 appartments a week at once, and there are 56 total so I have to wait my turn) I got my own plans.
I have a lot of stuff and it's all going into boxes since I really dont like construction workers running around my things and get any ideas (you never know) or damage anything. Took that week off from work aswell. I want to be there to keep an eye on things.
Anyway...when they are done I'll be redecorating the place. Been planning for a few weeks now to get the right materials and whatnot. The plans are to move my 'museum' as someone on here calls it :P to the biggest room and build a floating floor and 2 walls in the living room so that I can watch movies and play my games on a higher volume then now, and the room acoustics need some work aswell once im done.
It's a costly process but I have enough saved up and wont be buying anything the coming 2 months...for a change...if i can resist. The only thing I'm getting is my 3 different editions of ' The Last Of Us'
For now I have to be patient and look around more on the interwebz for prices and materials. Luckily I buy a lot of the stuff through work, which saves me a very large amount of money.
More updates eventually will pop up on here. I'll be taking a lot of pictures. just 6 more weeks.
Enjoy your weekends people!