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    Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Live Reveal - Thursday 12th of June at 1700BST

    Neph’s new house…

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    • Clint_DC
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      The kitchen is coming along beautifully @neph93! Funny story, one of the biggest blowouts my wife and I have had was regarding tile.  Best of luck to you!

      ATX IH Hoarder

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      • ChrisC
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        Kitchen looks good. Cellar looks, well, kinda like where a horror movie would be filmed.

        Good luck with the tiling. I utterly deferred to Julie for those decisions in our house building process, and as a result, she did not once threaten to murder me in my sleep.

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        • S
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          Wow, the house has really come a long way, Reuben! Congrats

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          • Filthy2123ozjunkieF
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            I love the cabinets Reuben. Looks great. 👍👍👍

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            • GraemeG
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              I suspect that when I get around to buying a house, the lovely Nuru will get to choose all the tiles, and I'll just say, "Yes, dear." 😃

              The house is looking good @neph93. If the cellar is to be the teenagers' domain, they probably won't notice the incomplete state. 😛

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              • ROmanR
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                Your house is looking great @neph93 . I would have fun in the basement playing with the support jacks. Just joking.

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                • steelworkerS
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                  @neph93:

                  Been a bit mental on the house front. We are moving in around 10th May, and due to the inevitable delays and Hot Ingrid exercising her divine right to change her mind, things will not be quite as planned. The main bathroom will not be finished as the tiles we had taken bloody ages to decide on were suddenly deemed «not good enough» and the only ones that work are on a six week lead time from Italy.

                  Further more I have decided that finances dictate that I do the cellar so we can use money on other things that are either beyond my capabilities or very expensive. Like the bloody Italian tiles.

                  Still, there is a lot of progress. The current state is more advanced than you’ll see here as these were taken a couple of weeks ago, but the kitchen is in and the first floor is looking like it may be livable. The second floor is coming along, while the cellar looks like something Frodo and Sam would have had a bad time in…

                  Love the kitchen, Reuben. Soapstone? Looks really good.
                  And she's right about the Italian tile. You know she's right.

                  Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                  Well, I have others.

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                  • neph93N
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                    Lack of updates here, ironically due to being up to my tits in this.

                    Firstly we had a mare with out painter who totally fucked a plasterboard ceiling, leading to arguments, compensation claims and delays. In amongst that our main contractor badly underestimated the time needed to finish the build.

                    The original moving in date was May 1st. That was obviously never going to happen so did the builders a favour and extended it by two weeks. Still no dice. So we are now holding back 80% of their fee until we have negotiated damages while giving them a couple of weeks to sort their shit out.

                    Meanwhile we are moving the contents of our current house into storage as the new owners move in on Tuesday. It is maniac af. The really bad news is that our temporary digs are just awful. Look at this view… ffs

                    While being a shitshow, there are positives everytime we visit. Rooms are pointed, ceilings installed, parkett is layed and downlights are in.






                    “Some of those that work forces
                    Are the same that burn crosses”

                    • Virginia Woolf
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                      Ah Dude that sucks hard @neph93 I hope it all get sorted out soon. Things like that happen way to often during those kind of home projects. I try very hard to help my friends here out with their home projects after hours to save them money and stress and get them moved in asap.

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                      • neph93N
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                        @Steffen:

                        Ah Dude that sucks hard @neph93 I hope it all get sorted out soon.

                        Thanks buddy. It sort of sucks, but was not entirely unexpected and seeing as our temporary digs are a rent free lakeside cabin, I can live with it [emoji1]

                        “Some of those that work forces
                        Are the same that burn crosses”

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                        • neph93N
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                          Phew…. As many have gatherd this project has turned into a bit og a nightmare over the last few weeks. We are now two months overdue on end of the first part of the project which entailed drainage of the foundation, the extension of the cellar via a supporting wall under an existing first floor extension, structural and room plan changes to the first and second floors as well as all the attendent decorating, and installing a new bathroom and kitchen.

                          There have been legitimate delays due to unforseen issues, as well as problems with the contractors. We thought the problems with the contractors had come to a head five weeks ago when we basically fired half of them, but then things got weirder. It turns out that the project manager has been embezzling his own company for a while, and ended up clearing all their accounts and selling off shit that wasn’t his. It turned out that a lot of the slow/poor work we had experienced was largely due to him too.

                          Before all this was revealed he tried to bill us enormous amounts in the promise that it would be used to finish the job in record speed. We smelt a large stinky rat and two days later he was gone after the bank stopped his attempts to sell leased machinery for about 1 million NOK. He’s in the wind now but when found is facing arrest and jail time. Due to Hot Ingrid being a accounting badass, we haven’t lost money at least.

                          When they heard this, some of the contractors pitched in together and came up with a plan to help us in. Things got moving again as a result, and hopefully we’ll be watching the Euro final in our new lounge on Sunday evening. Here’s how things are looking:

                          The foundation wall/cellar extention/drainage process:














                          “Some of those that work forces
                          Are the same that burn crosses”

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                          • neph93N
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                            In order to rescue the project I’ve taken responsibility for putting right some fuck ups so our trusted contractors could focus on other stuff. This included taking up 15m2 of floor that  someone had tried to level out by using levelling cement on top of the old flooring. There are so many things wrong with that I don’t know where start.

                            When the wall supporting the area was finished I took up the old flooring (now covered in a 4cm layer of cement), adjusted the level of the beams and installed the floor again. It was a long shit job to do alone, but it went well…









                            “Some of those that work forces
                            Are the same that burn crosses”

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                            • AppfaffA
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                              Looks fantastic! Sorry for all the headaches leading up to it 😞

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                              • neph93N
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                                We’ve had to repaint half of the walls too, and I’ve been doing the coving/skirting etc. The bathroom is also finished…




                                The cellar is my workshop currently but that is next on the list…

                                “Some of those that work forces
                                Are the same that burn crosses”

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                                • GilesG
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                                  So sorry Neph…...

                                  But it's looking brilliant.

                                  Congrats

                                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                  • neph93N
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                                    @Appfaff  @Giles thanks gents. It’s coming along so I’m just trying to take it easy, keep my head down and make a little progress each day.

                                    I have a little side project which entails pimping Ikea furniture into a permanent installation that doesn’t look like it consists of Ikea furniture [emoji1] Strangely it is keeping me sane.

                                    I find that treating myself now and again helps too  😎

                                    “Some of those that work forces
                                    Are the same that burn crosses”

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                                    • AppfaffA
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                                      Treats works equally well On adults as they do children and small animals 🙂

                                      Well played R…

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                                      • motojoboboM
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                                        Sorry to hear about those troubles with the contracting @neph93 but I’m very impressed with your resourcefulness and grit to pull it all together and end up with such a fine looking end product. That flooring and the bathroom look very nice buddy. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
                                        Look forward to pics of the final stages!!

                                        The journey is the objective.

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                                        • SeulS
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                                          Shit is coming together nicely!..

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                                          • hajdukH
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                                            Herregud Reuben…! Damn…[emoji44]

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                                            "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have" James Baldwin.

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