Finishing Off The Builder's Work Renovation Week 19 Vlog / Nishi V

Morning. I think we're on renovation week 19, although I have no idea. Oh, it's a very nice and sunny day. It is super early in the morning. I don't even think it's 8 a.m. Just now at the house, I'm cleaning these kitchen units with these Wonder Wipes. We actually bought a pack for ourselves because they're amazing. These are like the wipes that builders use for everything, but they're really, really good. They're just like normal anti-back wipes, but on steroids. They're great. Anyway, I'm just working these units down because the worktop people are coming this morning, which is very exciting. They are, well, fitting the worktop, obviously, and last night, Jas and I, we made such a mess in the flat. Actually, can I put you up in this cupboard? Hold on. Oh my god, how good is this? I can put you up in this cupboard. So last night, Jas and I basically unassembled a brand new desk that we have in the flat that we've never used, and we managed to unassemble it and put it in our car. We've brought it here. We've also brought one of our dining table chairs because our internet at home has officially been cut off, and the internet here started a few days ago, so we are both working from home, or he's working from home mainly, from here in a very dusty house, which will be interesting because it's like our first time essentially working from home here. I will be working, but I've got to go return some paints to Homebase, as always, check if my order's coming, because nobody ever answers the phone. I just think they don't have enough staff because of Covid or something. Then I need to do some screw fix returns. I've got the worktop people coming. I've got three deliveries. I've got an Ironmongery delivery from Ironmongery Direct, and Mara, the shelf that they're replacing, which I'll tell you about later, and my curtains from Dunelm. So there's lots happening today, so I think we're gonna be here all day, and we're gonna end up having lunch out somewhere, which is not ideal, but you know, whatever. These things have to be done. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing here, so I'm just sort of cleaning up, just so that the worktop doesn't go on top of these dusty units, you know. So yeah, I will try and film the worktop people. I have no idea how they're gonna bring a massive piece of stone in, especially this corner unit. Especially this corner unit, because my main concern was that I didn't want a join in the worktop, otherwise it would have been easier for them to bring in two pieces. But I just wanted one whole piece, because I'm very fussy like that. I was, I'm a bit annoyed, I wanted this whole windowsill painting and cleaned before the worktop came in, but the builders haven't been here because they're pretty much done. I'm gonna be working from the new house today, and we just set up the table and the chair, and as you can see it's nothing else here. It needs a new carpet, but it's quite handy because I've got my laptop, and this portable monitor is very handy indeed. It's a little thin little thing that you can put into your rucksack and just powers up from the Ethernet port, sorry, the USB port. There we are, I'm ready to go, start my day. There's Nishi in her natural habitat, eating strawberries. I'm obsessed with strawberries again, like could this pot be any bigger? Woah, you got enough there? I haven't had breakfast yet, I'm gonna have breakfast because it's 10.30, then I'm gonna do some painting, and then hopefully we can have lunch in like a couple of hours. And then I'll go off on my missions to home base and screwfix. Yep, oh and another thing, this is the last time you're gonna see these like this right? Because the worktop people are coming in today. Oh my god yes, I haven't even vlogged the kitchen! Yeah, so that's not gonna look like that anymore. Well, like a shell. You're gonna have this covered obviously with a worktop, and where you're sitting with a worktop, because it's gonna be a square right? Not the L shape, so it's gonna be a big square. Rectangle. Rectangle, yeah sorry. And this is the big seating area. Right, I'll let you in. It's so cold, my teeth hurt. Yeah, because these were in a little cool box weren't they? In a cool bag, yeah. Oh, I don't like cold fruit, I don't like cold fruit. Don't worry, you can have your little coffee in here as well. In the thermos. Oh my god, I've just been talking to myself for two minutes and I think I forgot to press record. More like five minutes. Oh my god, I'm so tired, I'm not with it today. I've got the world's worst iced coffee. We went to a local, can you get a selfie please? We went to a local cafe, their salads are so nice, but their coffee, iced coffee, is just pure milk, it's gross. I feel like I need an actual coffee after this coffee. Anyway, we went out for lunch, I'm trying to summarise everything I said in my previous clip that didn't record. We went out for lunch, we chanced it, because the workshop people said they'd be here late morning. So we went out at 12 o'clock, and then I thought, let me just call them after I've eaten to be like, hello, are you still coming? And apparently the guys that were bringing the stone, that are meant to be bringing the stone, turned up late to work or something. So he was like, we'll be there between 2 and 2.30, so I quickly rushed to Homebase, didn't go to Screwfix or B&M or anywhere. Are they here? So it's quarter to three, they're still not here. And it's really annoying, because while I was in Homebase, my kitchen fitter called me, he's sending a guy tomorrow. But he called me because he was like, has your worktop been fitted? Because if it has, he's going to send a guy for half a day today. And I was like, not yet. And he was like, well, he's just going to get in their way. It's very annoying that this wasn't done first thing. And also I was kind of hoping to just be home this afternoon, because I fancy an afternoon nap. We've been here since like 7.30 or something. And we've been up since 6am. And it's just tiring. You were probably, we got here late as well. Yeah, we got here later than expected, because we were supposed to install the table, weren't we? Put the table together. We have to get here before Jas starts work, to assemble a desk and bring everything in from the car. And I've just been driving around. If I'd have known they were going to be late, I wouldn't have rushed back from home base, because I could have gone to Screwfix, which is not far, and B&M, which is not far. I look so grumpy. I've got like bags. Is this a bag? Is this what they call bags under your eyes? Why is this puffy? Jas, look at my face. What is this? So when my sister gets married soon, I can't have a disgusting face. What is this? I don't know, maybe like a sleep? I don't have bags. I have dark circles. I'm the queen of dark circles, but what is this? No, seriously, what is it? I know what you mean. I don't know. Anyway, stop. If anyone wanted to know what it's like being married to Jas, say what you just said to me. You've got more bags than Santa Claus. See, some husbands are so nice, and complimentary, and so like, you look beautiful today. You look very beautiful today. Oh yes, sarcasm more like. Oh my god. This looks so nice. They're now going to bring this big piece of stain in for the island. I think they're wheeling it in. I don't know what this is. I think they wheel it in on this. It's really heavy. Look at all our empty Farrow & Ball paints there. So they've cordoned off this portion of the worktop because they actually polished the wrong side. This bit's unpolished. That bit is polished, but that's going to be hidden on top of the unit, so they're supposed to polish this side because that's where you sit back there. So they've created this really funny little cordon, and it's quite good because they've taped up the gaps, I guess, here to stop all the dust and stuff. Which is quite good. No, super jumbo slab. We couldn't get jumbo. I don't know if you guys remember, but we had a really fat IKEA shelf that was like this thick. In fact, you can see where the silicon ended. The guys just removed it. They created a shelf for me out of some of our offcuts, and they've polished these two edges. These two didn't need to be. And they're going to silicon it on, and I think it's hard to tell because of the sun, but I think it looks so much better than that ugly IKEA wooden shelf. It kind of matches this. Similar, but the walls aren't straight, so I hope this is okay. We'll find out in a bit, but my battery's going to die. So, yeah, thought I'd quickly show you this now. It just looks so, so good. Really impressed with that. The worktop has been fitted! That's one more thing I can tick off the list, which is so exciting. They did a really good job. They were, the two guys, when the boss was here, who's like really nice, but the two guys were so funny. They were just constantly taking the piss out of one another. One was bossing the other one around, but he took it all in good humour. It was very obvious who the main guy was, and who the little helper dude was. Anyway, they were really good. I'm so pleased with my worktop. They even fitted my shelf on top of the toilet that I've probably spoken about in multiple videos, so I'm very glad that that awful, in fact, I haven't even looked at it yet. I'm going to go and have a look in a minute. I'm very glad that the awful IKEA shelf has gone. Jas has just gone out to try out a local barber for the first time, and I thought I'd use this opportunity to do a little bit of work, and also have my turn sitting at the desk. Do you know what I mean? We've bought this desk, he's been sat at it all day, so he cleared his stuff out at like 5.30, and now it's my time to do a bit of work, and I'm basically home alone. Very exciting. The whole of the back patio door is open. I should probably go and shut that, but anyway, whatever. Let me show you my setup. It's so nice and breezy from this window. Oh, I love it. I've got a big bottle of water, because I actually forgot to bring some water from home. I don't always buy bottled water. I've edited my video, which is great. I had to film the ending because I forgot about that. Got my phone, charger, and a thermos full of coffee that we bought this morning to share. I'm now just looking out the window at all these cats, because I think my neighbours either side have a cat, and I just from the corner of my eye saw a cat jump over the fence of one of the people that live across the road, who I've never seen or met. I was saying to Jasso for lunch, I'm very glad that none of our immediate neighbours, touch wood, own a dog, because I'm just not a dog person. Cats I can tolerate as long as they just stop pooing in my garden, like the amount of times, I'm pretty sure it's cat poo, I don't know if it's cat or fox poo, I don't know, but I just wish things would stop pooing in my garden, but dogs wow. Sorry, can I just go off on a really quick tangent, I'm sorry it's such a boring story. I feel like I've not spoken to anyone for like, two years. We saw a house that we really liked before this one, in fact it's about four or five streets away, and I don't know why we liked it, we didn't know what we were doing, so glad we didn't buy it, but it was a terraced house, and one day, when we went to do our second viewing, as we were leaving, the woman next door came out with five dogs, these dogs were like, bigger than her, they were like six foot humans, but on all fours, and I was just like, Jas if we move in here, I'm gonna have to like, I can't just walk out of my house freely, I have to make sure I time it so that she's not there with her dogs, and could you imagine them barking all night, like, if this is what happens, like in unison, five dogs, I'm just very grateful that these people all have cats. Anyway, that was a, oh god, people are watching me vlog, okay, I can't be weird in front of new neighbours, not yet anyway. Okay, I'm gonna go now, I'm just gonna go. Oh, hay fever is kicking my ass today, Jas is doing a really good job of painting, I'm doing the skirting, got Kate from Fitters in, this is actually my second coat here, and I've done the, oh you're not gonna be able to see, I've actually propped this door open, I've done the first coat on this door frame, I need to finish off the skirting in this room, and we still haven't had lunch, I think it's like half two or something. I'll film you! I'll film you first! Any of them, yeah? Oh, hold this, yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's it, just push it in. Oh no, no, no, this one here, just carry it and push it in. Hang on, hang on, hang on, let's do it properly, isn't it? Come and stand over here, or let me stand over here. I'm not left handed! Is it? Don't worry. Oh, that might come aside a bit. That's it, push it. That was so much fun! Now I see why you like doing this! Have you given any more thought to your YouTube channel? Today's Monday, I actually forgot to end my video yesterday, because it's been such a hectic four days. Honestly, like, it's been such a blur, Jas and I have been here at the house for about ten, twelve hours pretty much, for the past few days, and we're running on virtually no sleep, and just eating crap, because we have to grab stuff on the go, or rely on very kind family members to just come and deliver us some food or cook for us, which is really nice, obviously. So, I don't even know what I've showed you, I have no idea what this video is about, but I need to end it, because today is Monday, like I said, and I'm going to start a new one. So yeah, let me just quickly show you the kitchen, because it's pretty much done. Hold on. I mean, I say it's done, but this is what the kitchen currently looks like. They need to come back and fix a few things, they basically forgot that I had an integrated bin, and so they haven't installed it, so I've had to order a replacement cabinet door, because that one would pull out this way, and yeah, I will give you a proper tour once it's all done, but we finally picked up all the cardboard yesterday, we've kept a couple of bits here, we're going to go buy a broom now to sweep up, because it is super dusty, and once again, there is lots happening this week, so yeah, keep an eye out for the next video, and hopefully this time next week, I'll be free of builders, and the house will be clean. In fact, the house will most definitely be cleaner. So, thank you for watching, and I will see you next week with a super exciting video. Bye!