Shopping For Quartz Worktops Renovation Week 9 Vlog / Nishi V

Hello and welcome to renovation week 9. Nine. This is really dragging on now isn't it? Jas and I are just at a marble place like they do quartz worktops and granite and all sorts of things. We have an appointment here. It's first thing on a Monday morning but we wanted to book this appointment quite early so we can just get on with our day because Jas has the day off today. In fact restaurants are open today now to sit inside so that'd be quite good. We don't have to sit in the freezing cold or in the rain trying to grab some lunch but we've got quite a few missions to do today so first we're gonna just go into this place. We're a little bit early for our appointment. They are open though, I don't know. Oh my god this is such a difficult decision. Trust me to like the most expensive brand that has apparently been patented so nobody can copy it in the cheaper ranges. This is like such a minefield. You'd think that all marble lookalike worktops look very similar but they don't. I really don't like this thick veining here. Absolutely hate that one. There's just so much to choose from. I don't want grey obviously. I thought this one was quite nice. It's gonna be really hard to see now that the sun's come out though. Typical when you like want the sun. It's not here. Oh my god. Such a difficult choice isn't it Jess? This one was inside. It's kind of similar to this one. No. Well this one's my... No I don't like this one. This just looks like it's muddy. It looks like it's dirty all the time. That's £20. We're now in Clary's. This is like the worst shop ever for me. I get so bored in here. We're looking at some appliances that we've seen online. We're starting with fridge freezers. Then we're moving on to hubs, ovens and all the rest of it. This is like I just get so bored in here. You don't understand. It's like the worst shop ever. But it is actually really nice to see these things in person. Okay we thought we weren't gonna buy anything left because it's really pricey but just have a look at this. How cool is that slide and hide? And also, can I do it? Hold on. Look at this handle. It twists up as you pull it down. There we go. I love it. I'm obsessed with Neff. Their products are just so beautiful. Look at this. Oh my god the sun's just come out and it's like really nice and warm actually. Anyway we've just popped into, where did we go? We went to one worktop place, we went into Curry's and then we popped into Wren because it was just right next door just to hold up our worktop sample against the cabinet doors just to see the colour. Now we're gonna head towards a second worktop place and then maybe grab some lunch because it is half past one and then we're gonna head back towards the house, maybe pop into Homebase on the way to look at paint. I'm gonna ring the third worktop place who we actually went to last Saturday just to see if we can go back to him. I don't think we actually like the worktop that we chose. It's really hard to tell with a small sample but the place we went to this morning had a massive slab of it and it doesn't look that great. Also we didn't like the guy from this morning did we? No. He was like really weird. He was more interested in showing us his Instagram account and it's like really flashy office with a big like TV and he was like you kind of have to sit with your back to him and face the TV while he scrolls through his Instagram and I was like I could have just done that at home. Half the time he's on the phone to somebody else. Yeah he was like talking to us but answering calls like with his headphones and like we were like is he talking to us? Is he talking to them? But the people he was talking to were obviously like his customers and they'd had some problem with the worktop and he was like oh yeah just don't tell the builder or don't tell the customer and I was like hmm this seems a bit dodgy. Shady. He was very shady so yeah we're not gonna go with him and his prices were astronomical anyway. It was just a very weird like it was just a very weird experience wasn't it? So hopefully this third place is good. If not we're gonna go back to the first place we went to on Saturday and I don't know we're just gonna do something basically. Our lives are just so fun and interesting at the moment aren't they Jas? Yep. So we're now looking at a completely different style of worktop and I think Jas really likes this one whereas I think I like this but it looks so different in different lights. That's that one there. It's very hard to tell it's such a difficult decision because it's a permanent one that's why. Oh my god. I think this is the first one we looked at somewhere else but actually I really hate this. Success. I think we've found the place that we're going with right? We haven't necessarily found the worktop that we want but this guy was so nice. He was really helpful. He really knew his stuff. He sat down with us for ages, gave us two different quotes. It was really good. He was very helpful and also a lot cheaper. So yeah we're gonna go with them but now we need to go and find some lunch. Why am I vlogging next to a busy dual carriageway? Also one other thing that this guy said which I thought was really interesting is when you buy your slab because obviously all quartz comes in a massive slab, any offcuts the customer gets to keep and the other two places basically implied they would give us some of the offcuts from another customer's slab. So basically you pay for the slab because you want this whole stone but if there's any offcuts or leftovers they take it back which is really stupid. Like I want the offcuts. I could get like a nice chopping board or like coasters. This guy made more sense. He actually gives them valuable information that we're not. The other two didn't where he just meant if you did get an offcut to save money, let's say another from a previous customer, the variant might be different because not all the same. There might be little shade variants and we actually found that today when he's showing the samples. He showed a sample that we liked and then we went outside and then it looked different to a different slab. Yeah exactly. Even better is that we actually get to choose a slab we want so the slab doesn't... Yeah he said we can go to the supplier and actually once we've chosen the brand or whatever, the actual design, we get to pick the actual slab that's gonna go on our thing so there's no surprises. So when it turns up we're not gonna expect something different. Which is really good. Anyway he was really helpful, really liked him. I can say where we are right? Yeah. It's nowhere near where we live. It's called MBS Stonework in Southall. Thumbs up for me at the moment. Yeah the guy we spoke to was a guy called Cam, there's another lady there as well who's been emailing me. They were really helpful, really nice. So yeah I think we're definitely gonna go with them. We need to eat Jass. It's like 3 o'clock, school traffic time. I'm hungry. Just like that Jass had a wardrobe change and outfit change. We're back in the house and what are you doing with this wire? I'm completing a thing. There are two wires I can't quite imagine in here. Right. One wasn't long enough so I've now been given another one by the builder. He's basically trying to get it under the floor. I'm really not being very helpful here am I? Can you pull it? Oh that's a different way yeah. That's way more. That sort of left me miles open hasn't it? Yeah I thought the reason I went either way, the middle way, earlier. Oh that's fine, that's fine. Let's pull it. Is this what you were doing on Saturday as well? We've had to take the wire all the way out the driveway and across the street just to stretch it. Alright I'm gonna speed it more. Now pull it yeah. Pull it. Can you pull it more? And more. Shall I move it like this way a bit? This way? Shall I put it higher? You ready? Alright. Let's get down the other end. Oh this side yeah. That was uncomfortable. Get in there. That's crazy isn't it? There's no way you would have done it on your own bro. Yeah. We'd still be here tomorrow morning when you come back. It was a two man job man. I was thinking how the **** are we gonna do this on our own? That was a mission wasn't it Giles? Feeding that cable through. But I've just come upstairs for a really quick look before we leave. Because we're about to go home. No to home base. But look at this, the final wall. In the master bedroom has been plastered. It looks incredible. This room just looks amazing. I'm obsessed. I'm not really on about the colour of plaster any more. And yeah. Everything else still sort of looks the same. We're in home base looking at paint colours. And this time we have our tile with us. So this colour. London Clay is what I was looking at. And I just think it looks so nice against us. It's coming off a little bit different on camera. Isn't it Jess? Yeah it looks nice. Does it look a bit different on camera? Slightly it is. What was the other one I was looking at? Charleston Grey. That's one above it. That's too cool toned isn't it? I think London Clay is nicer. On the camera they do look different. Oh what's this one? Basica. I did also look at this G-Lux Heritage brand the other day. And this is quite a nice colour. Where's it gone? Wooded Walk. This is actually quite pricey for G-Lux. It's almost the same price as Farrow & Balls. I could just get a Farrow & Ball. Don't you think Jess? These two colours do look quite nice together don't you think? Is this a bit more cool toned? That's a good match. I don't know. I think I still prefer squeaky shoes because it's chucking it down. These two. The middle one. It's very dark though but I quite like that. It kind of gives a moody sort of vibe. Jess is doing a really good job of modelling this sofa bed. We think it's a sofa bed otherwise. I think we've just broken it. But it's a bit weird because at this end you can't shift it into the middle so nobody can actually lie down on this side. It looks far too small to be a double. I don't really understand. I like the colour. It's very cheap but the material also looks quite cheap. Anyway, I don't know why we're looking at this stuff because we really don't need soft furnishings right now. Oh my god, what a day. We've literally just got home. It's about 7.30pm. We left the house at like 9.30 in the morning and we're really tired. My eye is like really bloodshot. I don't think I've noticed this today. I don't know why this keeps happening to me. Anyway, we're going to have some dinner and do some more online shopping as per usual. It's been a very productive day, hasn't it, Jess? Very productive day. It was a day off well spent doing house stuff. It's Thursday. This is my second time at the house. I'm with Anusha. I came here earlier because we had to make a quick dash to Screwfix to pick up some HDMI cables and some ethernet cables and all that sort of fun stuff. The builders were here and we had to quickly drop them off and we've just been out for her birthday dinner actually. Sorry, you're being blinded by the lights. Aww. But I thought seeing as I've got my camera on me this time I just thought I'd show you what they've done. They've put some insulation up in the roof of the extension. This actually wasn't here before and the builder keeps telling me what a shoddy job whoever built this extension did in the past because there was no insulation and there's actually none under the concrete either which actually means that the floor might be a bit cold which is really annoying and now they can't lift all this concrete. Obviously they can but it would be like super expensive to put insulation underneath it so he's bought like the thickest one possible which is quite good for us and let's see if I can get it to focus somewhere there. So you might remember last time I was here there was all these gaps obviously here but he's put it between these joists. I now know building terminology which is very exciting for me. Oh there's watermarks on the skylights. I thought we'd bought self-cleaning skylights. It's not going to pick up on camera. Maybe it will. That's really annoying. Hopefully they've just left like the plastic on it and this skylight looks like it's leaked. Oh for God's sake. I just notice these things when I'm vlogging. That's a bit annoying. So that's something I'll have to speak to them about. It's actually really late at night. It's like almost 9pm but they left the lights on for us because obviously there's no electricity in the house so it's very bright because Jass needs to feed another wire from here round there. So you might have seen a few days ago I filmed loads of little clips of Jass and the builder crawling around on the floor feeding wires under the floorboards and around the pipes. I'm not sure if I said what they were for but that was... What were the wires for actually Jass? The ones you guys were feeding under the floorboards. That's for the Virgin Media cable. Oh right. That coaxial cable for the Virgin Media. Basically for the internet. So yeah, he's got another one to do tonight because I think they're going to box it up because this partition wall is the partition wall for the living room and that is the back of where our TV is going to go. So we want as many wires as possible hidden obviously. It's Saturday today and Jass and I have had a really productive one. Oh you're in the back of my video! We've already been to Wren Kitchens this morning for our second last appointment. Finalised a lot of the appliances and now we are in Southall. We just came to MBS. The Marble Granite Quartz and Limestone... I was going to say Worktop Place. They're just a stone place. Let me show you. So this is where we are. Basically. And now I discovered there's a Home Bargains literally one street away so I really want to go there because we don't have Home Bargains in London or so I thought. We don't have one anywhere near us. We're going to pop in so we need some plant pots to repot my peace lily and maybe another plant. Just some plastic ones. So we're going to pop in there and then maybe grab some lunch and then go to the house. How amazing do these plastered walls look? Amazing innit? They've literally just plastered this dining room. The camera literally has nothing to focus on round there so I won't swing it round too much. They still haven't done that bit yet but that's fine. OK so please ignore any mess that you can see behind me. We were actually meant to go to the house today but the builder said it's going to be really dusty because they were preparing to do the pipe work for the boiler which is happening next week so we didn't go and paint today. And yesterday's Home Bargains was really disappointing I have to say. I don't really get the hype am I allowed to say that? I know people love it. They literally had nothing in there that I wanted to buy apart from these little chocolate covered pretzels so random. But these are like peanut butter covered chocolate pretzels I think. It's a brand called Flips. I've never seen the peanut butter ones before and they were very disappointing so maybe that's why they were in there. Anyway we are just having a day of Googling and shopping online so I thought it would be a good place to end this video here because tomorrow is the start of renovation week 10 which is I can't even. I say this in every video but it's really dragging on and everyone keeps asking us when the builders are finishing off the job and I'm getting a bit sick of people asking because it's also kind of really winding me up. It was meant to be five to seven weeks and now we're at the end of week nine and it's nowhere near done. They keep saying like next week will be done, next week will be done and every time we go to the house at the end of that week we're like really? Are you going to be done? So I really hope it's soon because I just want to get things moving and like behind the scenes while I'm also vlogging this renovation my sister's getting married in a couple of months so I've been like on Whatsapp to her and her friends like we're going on her hen night and her wedding and I'm a bridesmaid I've been ordering loads of dresses trying out all this stuff and it's just, it's a lot to deal with all at once but I'm glad we've made a few decisions this week regarding the work top and hopefully the kitchen will be finalised soon and hopefully we get all the painting done soon too which is going to be super boring so yeah I just hope it ends very soon, I really hope you're enjoying these renovation videos, I know I'm not posting much other content like in terms of like food or beauty or any other lifestyle content because this is literally our lives at the moment, this is all we can think about and do and it's a lot of work and it's just a lot to do at the moment so yeah bear with me, like my regular content will be back mixed with some really fun home content when I eventually get around to that but thank you for watching and I will see you next week for renovation week 10, bye!