Disaster With My Statement Tiles Renovation Week 11 / Nishi V

Hello and happy fake Monday. Yesterday was bank holiday so today is actually Tuesday and we're on renovation week 11. I'm currently standing in the guest bedroom and it's been painted, not completely. This is just the mist coat on top of the fresh plaster. I mentioned at the end of my last video that we've asked our neighbour who's a painter and decorator to do some painting for us and we've just turned up at the house and he's not here which is a bit worrying because he's meant to be working at this time but in fact this is actually my second time at the house today. I came earlier to drop off the keys for the neighbour because he will come as soon as he's finished work to start the painting and he wanted his own set of keys which is fine and also just to chat to the builders because they've been doing stuff in the bathroom. So while I was dropping off the keys the builder said to me can you get the guy to paint the downstairs toilet because the radiator is going up in it tomorrow and of course the final coat for that was in the boot of our car so we have to go and bring it but also that's the chalk wash paint that I've been talking about so I just wanted to come and see him here while he's at the house just to show him how to apply it and stuff and just see if he's familiar with it. But Joss he's definitely been today because this wasn't here earlier. This thing, the paddle mixer thing. I think maybe he's done one coat and he's waiting for it to dry. We should check the downstairs toilet. Watch your back. So the mist coat has been done in this box room. Oh it's not going to focus so he hasn't done the back bit but I think he needs to undo this cork that I've done because it's terrible. It's a really bad job. It's funny though because we asked him what he thinks of this and this is the painter decorator by the way and he said oh this is really good this is terrible and I was like yeah I did this. The builder did this so obviously he was happy with that but it's quite funny isn't it? Oh my god look my shower tray is in! I'm so happy it's black and this is where the recesses are going and I might have mentioned in another video I'm not sure because I can't really remember what I say and also I can't remember which bits I cut out of my videos but we have the knobs to turn the shower on a bit further away from where the shower head will be just so that you can turn the shower on without getting splashed once the water starts running and then you can walk in properly. So yeah that was kind of the plan and the builder was a bit like rolling his eyes when I mentioned it. I think it's a lot more work for them to obviously bring all these pipes and stuff out here rather than having them ordinarily on this back wall like most people have I guess but I just think it's quite a nice little touch just to have them a bit to the and so one other thing if I can get in here, my statement tiles were actually going to go on this back wall here but the guys that are tiling our bathroom came around a couple of days ago with the builder and they said there'll be a lot of wastage because of these two recesses and we do have enough tiles but first there'll be a lot of wastage but also it just won't look right in the recesses because of the shape of my lily pad tiles they're not square or rectangular so they suggest putting them on this back wall so unfortunately I haven't got enough which is really annoying actually because I wish the builder would have checked beforehand because these tiles actually come from Italy and I have to pay delivery on them and when I first bought them they had a 20% off sale and it's just my luck that today is the 1st of June and their 20% off sale ended yesterday literally yesterday so he called me but all the stockists are closed on bank holiday Monday in fact they're closed on Sunday and Monday so I was a bit annoyed about that so I'm definitely gonna have to order one more square meter but I'm not gonna do it until the tilers start because I said look just make sure it is one oh so I said just make sure it is one more square meter because if you say one now and then they turn around and say you need another square meter I have to pay the delivery three times if you see what I mean so that's a bit frustrating but I just don't understand where he's disappeared to also don't think I've shown you this before but this is obviously up into our loft we had originally asked for them to install a loft ladder but because the space is quite small and the hallway is virtually non-existent that's gonna be a lot of work for them to do and it's just easier for us just to not do it to be honest so we're gonna leave it as it is because I think they'd have to take off this whole ceiling and rebuild it all with a loft ladder and I mean how often do people go up into their lofts anyway I certainly won't be even the builder was saying he hates like going up on ladders and yeah I can fully sympathize because I do too in fact neither of us have been into the loft since we've had the keys and apparently there's some suitcases and stuff up there so hopefully someone's left like a big pile of cash hidden up it oh my god summer has most definitely arrived in London it is 28 degrees today it's actually my birthday today as well which I keep forgetting but I've had a very busy morning I went to get a pedicure first thing you know priorities and all that and now I'm off to the house I've actually got a car full of stuff I thought I should just come out and check vlogging but all my lights here because the electricians at the house today I've got a coat rack I've got some painting supplies I've got some stuff for the downstairs toilet a few extra tiles some light bulbs all of this fun stuff so I'm gonna have to ask the builder or the electrician to help me out I had to do three trips to the car just now to load it but yeah I'm on my way to the house I woke up with terrible skin I don't know what's going on but maybe it's a heat rash maybe it's a reaction to a new SPF that I'm using I don't know but I'm very sweaty so I'm gonna drive to the house and just see what the guy that was painting last night has done as well because I think I think we're gonna have to keep an eye on him thought my neighbor was watching me but I think we're gonna have to keep an eye on him so I'm not a hundred percent sure that he understands exactly what we want and I think it's just gonna have to be a case of us going every day just to check that he's done what he's supposed to do and make sure the builder tells me what he needs done the next day so I can tell the painter and just like communicate with everybody properly so I'm gonna go and check it out drop these bits off and I'm gonna come home. I don't know how long I'll be at the house for today but I'm very excited because I think the tiles are happening tomorrow or Friday which is great so I cannot wait to see what they look like I need to pick up a few more but I think that might be some time this week. What a productive day it's Thursday today, is it Thursday? Jess got the day off and we went to Homebase basically bought all of our paint for all the bedrooms and a bit for downstairs as well Farrah and Ball had a buy one get one half price sale on so we got really lucky with that and then we've just come to buy some more grout for the tiles we had to pop to Sainsbury's we've just done like loads of missions today and then we're gonna go to the house now see what the builders are doing and then we have to go to Tops Tiles to buy some more tiles and then go back to the house to drop them off later on but we just got a whole day full of like fun activities planned haven't we Jess? Yep yesterday was my birthday and he surprised me with a meal I literally got by the way today I got all ready and as we walked out of the flat my uncle my cousin were like parked up like just pulled up on the road and I was like what I was really confused and basically my uncle was dropping my cousin off and Jess just organized like a nice little dinner with my cousin so that was really nice and we had Italian food again second time this week but it was really good food a really fun night and we ended it with like limoncello shots so that was really good yeah and you got lucky because when they brought the cake out the end you know when the waiters bring out the cake they've got me a tiramisu yeah it wasn't even a cake but she got lucky because I know she gets mortified if it's like really embarrassing I would have been mortified but luckily there was nobody in the restaurant and it was like just really funny I wanted everyone to like you know look around at you and yeah I got very lucky with that actually I think there might have been a couple of people behind me but I didn't turn around yeah it wasn't noisy as normal you know how you expect noisy like the put you know with a massive music on that kind of stuff yeah it was good it was good it was very good anyway let's go to the house now because it's like almost 1.30 and time is ticking on we have to go and buy some more spotlight Oh and pick up my glasses at some point we've got a lot to do also popped into Sainsbury's a little bit of a food shop so hope the stuff okay so just come to the house we're about to leave and this is the color that I chose for the downstairs toilet I'm not sure that he's got the brush marks right I do really like this color and it's called warm tope it's chalk wash paint by rust-oleum tops tiles as unhelpful as ever we have to like load all these tiles into our car and we have a boot full of stuff basically we picked up some more paint we've got some more like spotlights all this stuff and it's a nightmare to be honest isn't it bloody hell our car has been weighed down by tile so many times but we just had to pick up a few more for our bathroom because we didn't buy enough last time and you know what I take back everything I've said about being cute I don't like being cute but I don't like tops tiles so much more in fact we went to being cute earlier and the lady was like semi helpful first time for everything but the women in tops tiles and the two men that work in this store they're just so rude so unhelpful and just the worst customer service haven't they the last time we went in no service yeah they've got no customer service anyway robots they really are anyway yeah I don't like tops tiles but unfortunately we were at the like unfortunately there's like a clearance outlet store in Wembley so we kind of discovered it online we've got a lot of our tiles from there just because it's a lot cheaper they have like mixed batches of tiles but hopefully it should be okay so yeah we have to travel quite a bit further out just to get them but we save a bit of money you know but they're just very annoying and because of their mistake last time they didn't explain something to me properly that you get the trims for the tiles in different widths they just told me to pick a color so I did because why would I know and I've obviously bought the wrong size it's just a mission coming all the way to Wembley as well all the time but that's on our list of things to do tomorrow yeah so the slogan should be top tiles with bottom service great marketing campaign anyway we have been on the go since we left the house at 9 a.m. oh my god okay so now it is 5 p.m. we are taking our tiles we're going back to the house for the second time dropping off the tiles and the paints and the lights and all the rest of it and hopefully meeting the painter there to just discuss a few things and then we're had a good old chat with the builder he's gone we're waiting for the painter decorator to come and I try to show you guys this earlier it's very hard because there's nothing for it to focus on again but this is the paint for our downstairs toilet in fact this is the name of it it's a rust-oleum chalk wash paint in the shade warm taupe so the first coat has to be done with a roller like normal I guess and the second coat has to be done with a brush I'm not a hundred percent satisfied that's what it's meant to look like I asked the guy just to paint just behind here which is where the radiator is gonna go because the builder wanted to put that up today he's now gonna do it tomorrow I was quite difficult to explain because I myself have never done this so it's a struggle for me to never mind for somebody that doesn't really understand me very well so I'm just gonna go through it with him again when he turns up in a bit and maybe have a go at it myself I've got a booklet which explains a bit better than the YouTube video so hopefully that's all good. I'll need to wrap this boiler up yeah yeah like that okay it's fine I'm not trying to talk you out it kind of looks like this when it's flush oh my god look these are my beautiful tiles wait yeah that's me he won't be able to do any work on the end oh look they've taken them all off because they were in the wrong pattern wow oh that's really good yeah thank you so much for that yeah thank you send you the picture oh yeah I've sent it to him downstairs yeah we're just leaving to get the builders some snacks and some drinks and oh my god we were so lucky we just went to the house now because they put the tiles on in the wrong pattern and I did have this conversation with the builder a few weeks ago but I think he'd forgotten so he felt really bad and he offered to pay for the tiles but luckily the tilers said it hadn't set yet so they managed to like pull them all off the walls and wash them down and they're gonna like put them back on but that was so lucky that we saw it when we did because I thought the builder was having me on he was like no they've done him in a star pattern I was like that's not what I wanted so yeah anyway should we just go to Sainsbury's or somewhere oh my god my tiles are in in the downstairs toilet they look really good I asked for brick effect. I'm happy with this. Yeah it's really good. Oh really cool. It's so good. Oh yeah. Wow. Hold on. It's a complete mad house in here. We've got tilers upstairs. My staff and I have got to the house. It is Saturday today. We're actually on our way to our friend's house for, not a bar but oh god we're just having drinks in his garden because he's like created a whole bar area during lockdown which is really cool but the builder has left the tilers in the house today so we just came to sort of have a look and make sure there was no like disasters like yesterday. There always was one like sometimes I don't want people's opinion I just want what I want done so that's a bit tricky. What are you laughing at? Snacks. I thought they finished the snacks off. We bought, let me show them. There's like literally no way to put my phone or my keys or anything but hold on. Oh god can I look around here without killing myself and getting dusty. We bought the builders a whole carrier bag full of snacks yesterday they asked us to get them some coke and we went a little bit overboard but there's like cookies chocolate there is some blueberry muffins in there as well also they obviously haven't finished them because that is a lot of food I guess but there was four of them in the house yesterday so anyway my tiles downstairs are looking very good but we have a lot of spares left over I don't really want to go back to Tops Tiles because I absolutely can't stand them. So annoying. But we've just got the keys back off our neighbor because we've kind of put a pause on the painting with him for now anyway because it he just needs a clear house to paint him he can't be moving this stuff around in the midst of painting it's a bit of a joke at the moment so we carry on with him maybe at some point or get somebody else in anyway tell Impostery I need to go and order some tiles. Don't tell them. I think it's arriving on Monday and yeah then we're going to go to our friends house for drinks which will be so nice because it's a really nice and sunny day oh my neighbors outside hanging up her laundry to dry oh god we own a garden still can't get over that fact you know anyway oh my god there's so much stuff here so oh my god be really careful of those they're just glass bowls my lights and so it's a bit tricky to walk around but I can't even get there can I without getting more dusty that's my vanity unit that I bought ages ago you guys might remember it from the vlog back in March maybe I don't even know but I'm really happy with the color of it I never actually opened it up to check I had a sneak little peek just to match up some tiles but I'm happy with oh bloody hell yeah we really really like this color it's like faux concrete which is which is great and yeah so in fact the builders actually get changed here every night before they go home because they've got this wall to protect them so that's all their clothes here and oh bloody it's like health and safety should not be wearing Birks in a building site like this but what was I gonna say so there's still quite a lot to do I'm kind of seeing you now I've just got this really bad feeling Sunday we're back at the house I don't think I've got much footage this week actually the builders aren't working today so Jas and I decided to take about 24 hours this weekend off from just doing house stuff because to be honest we're just kind of just waiting for the builders to hurry up and finish and we're kind of wasting our lives away just just you know doing house stuff at the moment so we thought we'd make the most of it and we've just spent the day in Windsor we just walked around the castle grounds and like all the parks along the river saw some swans we went out for drinks last night at our friend's house and we met some really fun people and a little bit hungover today actually. What's that? I don't really know what's happened yet I actually need to call the builder back in a bit but I'm not sure what's happened here so yeah anyway like I was saying oh god I can't step anywhere we went to a friend's house for dinner yesterday and I think we got there about four o'clock we were there till 1230 1 a.m. very very drunk we did Sambuca and tequila shots I've not drank like that since for years actually I haven't done shots for years have I? Well before Covid in fact that's been my second third fourth fifth drink of the year I've only had one drink prior to that this year so it was a fun night though but kind of feeling it today anyway we're just gonna check out what's going on at the house and I'll show you if there's any progress I mean doesn't really look like much does it Jas? Doesn't really look like much has happened at all. We say get in there in every video. Yeah I don't like it. It looks like it's a mess down there. Most of it's like builder's stuff really so it looks like if you think here they're just tools and things really hmm I mean every time we come to this house the bookcase has been moved I'm just so worried that they haven't lifted and they've been dragging it instead these are my coat hooks oh Jesus. The thing is the builders tell me to bring everything ASAP but it just sits here gathering dust so I don't really know why. So we've fed some cables through here. Oh is that the ones that went under the ground? No these are the ones from here. So what it is you've got HDMI cables coming from here these ones right right and they're kind of feeding from the back to here coming out so. Oh so you don't see them behind the TV basically. Yeah so technically this should be clean. So the TV's here and then you've got the stuff on that. Okay anyway we need to establish what's happened to the downstairs toilet actually because the guy did paint it but he hasn't done the corners has he? These haven't been done yet. Well this hasn't been done so it needs finishing. Hmm. But I'm not sure who's meant to finish that. There's not actually a final coat on it. It's not focusing on anything. There's no final coat on this yet. No we definitely need to do a final coat maybe two more coats. But we could do that. I want to paint the brushstrokes myself it's just the edges I need somebody else to do so let's just speak to the builder but let's go upstairs and check out my The builder just wants you to do this bit so you can put the radio and finish all the sink stuff for your toilet. Yeah. This bit can be done afterwards if you've got anything on the top. Yeah but if I'm doing it myself I prefer to paint when it's an empty shell. I know professionals don't obviously care if there's a toilet and a radiator and stuff to cover up but to me that's just more hassle. So if I'm doing it myself I'd rather just do it first I think. Oh my god my tiles are in! They look really good. Hold on Jas can I just film around here. They look so good. And the floor tiles are down but they're using the old carpet I assume to basically protect them. But this is the pièce de résistance. Look at that. What a beauty. I'm so obsessed with these. I've just filmed a couple of instastories so I can't remember if I showed you this. I think I did. Really really happy with the way this has turned out. It's a shame that we've wasted a lot of money because of their error. I'm not sure if you guys really understood what happened a few days ago but Jas and I randomly turned up at the house and the builders were here and they had two guys tiling and the builder, we were just downstairs talking and he was like oh you wanted them in like a star pattern didn't you and I was like haha you're so funny. Like we had this conversation a few weeks ago and he's like no I'm not joking. I was like what? I thought he was having me on so we were like oh my god. So we all ran upstairs and they had tiled like more than half the wall I think in the wrong pattern and I just looked horrified and straight away the builder was like you know what it's my mistake because he realized that we did have this conversation and he was like I completely forgot. And luckily they were able to like salvage most of the tiles because they hadn't like dried yet, they weren't like properly glued on so the guys basically spent the rest of the day I think like pulling them back off the walls and washing them before all the adhesive or whatever sticks to them. I don't really know how it works and they salvaged a lot of them but they have wasted a lot and so the builder did say that if they can't salvage them it's his mistake right so he'd have to pay to replace them but I think they've salvaged most of them and we're basically gonna end up paying for this mistake because let me show you. So this is all the wastage and it's and so like see this one it's been cut like the bottom bit has been cut off but if I take you back round to the bathroom so far they haven't had to cut them in that way because they've been like using halves this way if that makes any kind of sense so it's a little bit annoying because these tiles were obviously very expensive like I keep saying in comparison to something like this which is very basic and yeah I'm a little bit annoyed about that, sorry Jess! We're like trying to get past each other in the hallway, is that your 360 camera? Am I in it? Vlogging you? Okay anyway so there's a lot of wastage here there's a few whole tiles here which they're saving because I think the problem with tiles is you have to get all of them at the same time they're slightly different batches they might be different shades slightly off and that is probably what's gonna happen to us so it's really annoying I hope it's not noticeable so I'll show you for example this was a sample tile from ages ago when I ordered samples and hold on a second it may not pick up on camera so I brought this round for the tilers yesterday and he was like oh I have one extra and I was like you know what it's a slightly different shade you can really see it here this is much brighter and obviously it's the same tile same brand it's just a different batch and so that might happen with the rest of our tiles which is really annoying so he said that he probably won't use this one and hopefully the rest of the batches are the same but I'm not hopeful that it will look good and for some reason they can't start at the top because I said if you put like the different batch ones at the bottom nobody will really notice because that's not in your eyeline so yeah I'm really like peed off about that to be honest but I just have to trust that it will work and it will look good in the end because it's out of my control really you know so like we said a few days ago we've put a pause on the painting because they're obviously cutting the tiles here which creates a lot of dust and there's no point in like wasting paint wasting money and wasting time if all the dust is gonna stick in the walls but this room they're using for cutting tiles this is like their storage slash dumping ground which isn't great and I have no idea what's going on here actually but they obviously need all this space to do all the stuff that they have to do so yeah unfortunately the painting has to be paused oh actually they're in mixing the adhesive here and my beautiful Farrah and ball paints are getting very dusty oh god bloody hell anyway one thing I want you to check oh god they've still got so much work to do I thought they'd have made my bench by now but they haven't that's a little bit irritating and funnily enough even the guy that was doing the painting for us our next-door neighbor said that he could sand these doors down and paint them but he was like there's probably no point because they are really battered and I just think everyone has a point they're not lying it's true even my parents said the same thing so so yeah these doors will have to go at some point I've just realized the builders have put these back up so I don't know why but they've started to tidy up I guess that's quite a good thing anyway let me go downstairs and see what's happened there we're baffled about these oh god we're baffled about these doors I might have tried to tidy it's really hard to tell if this is having tidied or not I don't think it is oh do you know what one thing that really annoys me is all these trades people smoke in the house which you know what for now it's fine because this is just an empty shell but once we start decorating properly and stuff I don't want people smoking in the house there's also I think a guy that's been smoking in the garage and there's so many cigarette butts in there and I'm just like can you just not is it that difficult to like stand outside and smoke it's not even raining at the moment actually let me show you this is our garage look at this like it just annoys me so much why are there so many cigarette butts all over the place and like rubbish I need to clean this up there's like nowhere for the wind to blow them because it's all blocked off and it's a proper garage that's been secured now yeah but I mean it's not relaxing but they do it in their own garage probably not all of this is underlay for the carpets and bits of the carpet and that's going back in our house so I don't want this to all smell of smoke as well I mean if it's salvageable it's very dusty so this has been in the house for quite some time we think our neighbor has a cat and just is obsessed with it this cat loves our house she's not running away now she is it's the reason we've been spraying bleach here is because it's like loads of stuff growing on this awful pebble dash at the back of the house and we thought we'd try and kill it and hopefully it's all cleaned up by the time we move in I don't know that's what the builder told us to do anyway so hopefully it works and hopefully it looks good ish for pebble dash in the end I mean I don't know don't think you can ever really make pebble dash look pretty but you know okay we did a little experiment and we walked away to see if the cat would come back and it has now we're really worried there's some mice in our house in the pipes because why else would the cat be obsessed with this area do you know I mean that's really scary just let the cats run away now but it's still here because it obviously wants to come back once we've gone because this drain pipe is new it used to be on the other side this one yeah it is new yeah and this whole thing is new just because that's from that Jackson this whole thing is new because that's from the toilet okay if anyone has a cat and you could probably help us with this that's really terrifying because actually the builder was just telling us about how rats and mice can get in and somebody that's never owned a house before we're really freaked out and then last night we had the same conversation about how there was a squirrel in somebody's bedroom and it fell out of the light fitting on the ceiling so that is terrible what did you he was tapping the drainpipe thing that's the downstairs toilet and anyway we haven't got to the bottom of the cat drama I really really hope we don't have rats mice squirrels anything else that has more than two legs even things with two legs whatever that may be humans humans in this house no foxes foxes fox I foxes I think what's the plural anyway they have four legs anyway I just don't want anything living in this house apart from me Justin our plants not yet anyway not the plants that's really terrifying we get she had this conversation with our friends last night about how she had squirrels in her roof and she was renting and then one night the squirrel just fell out of the ceiling light down the lampshade and all over her room and it took her nine months to be able to get rid of the squirrels it ate all her M&S baklava oh my god owning a house is just a nightmare isn't it I bet that cat is still there that cat knows something that we don't anyway I'm gonna end this video here we're gonna go home and call it another week week 11 I want to say anyway thank you for watching and I'll see you next week for renovation week 12 13 whatever we're on thanks for watching bye