Hey great start Scattybird!
Another suggestion – and this is based on what I learned from the coach I worked with – is that you estimate the time it takes to do things and then add about a 40 % of error margin. Then schedule that time into concrete dates in your agenda. Perhaps you have already done this and are giving us the summary with your August 20th date but then …we all have ADD, so I’m taking a wild guess here and assuming you just picked the August 20th date sort of at random 
By way of example, here’s how my basement project will go off the top of my head:
12 hours sorting stuff in main area + 40 % = 17 hours rounded off. ANother 3 hours to take stuff out of the house to the car. Another 2 hours to take it to goodwill . SO that’s already 22 hours. May as well round that out to 25 hours. Will now need to look at my schedule and see how I can carve out those hours based on my availability a few hours at a time.
The last time I did this it took me two weeks to finish which was amazing since it had been a disaster for about a year!
And one more thing Scattybird, do you have a builder? if not ,don’t forget to factor in time to “find” one ! And to measure if you haven’t already done that. But he’ll probably want to measure, no?
Also, it’ll probably work out better if you dictate your deadline for it to be finished and build it into the contract . I’ve even seen suggestions that there is a penalty if it’s not done. Last year a few weeks before Christmas I i decided I couldn’t live with my kitchen floor a second longer ( this had been one of those 20 year indecision projects!) so scheduled two parties plus family CHristmas at my house. Then got a contractor by fluke who was available . I told him I was having parties but needed it to be done a week before the first one. I swear this guy had ADD as well so I helped him plan the timing of everything. The week ahead deadline was because I figured something would go wrong. Which it did – “it” being the fact he thought the deadline date was the date of my first party so he started to procrastinate when he found out he had a week buffer! ANyway it all got done but I was still doing touch-up painting the day of the party! So all this to say if I hadn’t planned out the time and left it to someone else I would not have had it done on time!
Anyhow now am going to take my own advice and plan stuff for real!
Oh and Tiddler – i’m also a big Fly Lady fan – Fling boogies are fabulous! DOne lots of ’em – just not enough I guess!
Have you read her bit where she says you should keep your bedroom like a hotel room? Ever since I read that it’s looked pretty good. I also do the morning “swish and swipe” in my Master bath, make my bed and tidy up the bedroom re laundry. Doing the laundry….well that depends! And can’t start the day before getting “dressed to the shoes” either. Just have not mastered the shining sink at night bit!
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