Had a mate round to price up putting a RSJ in and taking down the kitchen and dining room wall it will be about £100 to get the 7x4 RSJ cut to size and delivered and I reckon he will want £250 to £300 for doing the job then we got another £70 for the cost of a skip to dispose of the bricks and kitchen units that we will have to rip out.

Finished work at half eight last night picked Helen up and we went to ikea again , bought a wicker dog basket four candles and two rugs for one of the bedrooms went to a local Indian take away got a wicked mushroom basmati rice chicken curry poppadoms and chapattis probably not the best thing to eat at midnight just before bedtime but when the hunger pangs hit and the choice is Chinese or Indian then its usually no option although I love Chinese duck in curry sauce the bill came to £13.50 and they knocked it down to £10.80 for some reason they always do this .