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jemck at 09:29am on 06/05/2008
jemck at 09:29am on 06/05/2008Good news. Self, sons and husband went to see Iron Man in the cinema yesterday. Excellent fun, and yes, we did stay to the end of the credits. Mind you, we normally do.
Bad news. Came home to find water dripping through the ceilings of both sons' bedrooms. Turns out the fittings where the mains cold water supply goes into the attic tank have been slowly corroding and leaking. This was the day the fibreglass insulation reached saturation point and dirty, mouldy water came through the plasterboard.
Good news. We renovated our previous house ourselves, being penniless not-yet-weds. Thus husband has the tools, the skills, ptfe tape and the tin of miscellaneous bits of pipe, joints and salvaged stopcocks to deal with such crises. I played my customary part as the 'stand there, hold this, pass me that' member of the team.
Bad news. So, the grand redecorating and recarpeting plan now includes replacing and replastering two ceilings. They're still there, but will not be salvageable. And a fair amount of plumbing work will be necessary to solve underlying problems stemming from everything being done on the cheap when the house was built. Husband spent a goodly while on the phone discussing matters with one of our aikido club who happens to be a plumber. He's going to fit us in asap - for the going rate obviously. Him sorting out a dodgy tap for us as a favour is one thing. This is a whole different scale of thing.
Good news. At least we hadn't already done the grand redecorating and recarpeting.
Bad news. Finding a plasterer round here who's free in the next six months is currently nigh on impossible. All the houses that flooded last summer have now dried out sufficiently for new plastering to begin.
Good news. Um. Sure there's some somewhere. Beyond the obvious like, at least we don't live in Burma. But this morning started at 5.30 am with senior son having a catastrophic nosebleed, and another during breakfast.
(I originally typed 'over breakfast' but then my brain caught up with my typing and I got the visual - urgh)
So. An admin day today, I suspect, since I don't think the creativity thing is going to be happening overly much.
Bad news. Came home to find water dripping through the ceilings of both sons' bedrooms. Turns out the fittings where the mains cold water supply goes into the attic tank have been slowly corroding and leaking. This was the day the fibreglass insulation reached saturation point and dirty, mouldy water came through the plasterboard.
Good news. We renovated our previous house ourselves, being penniless not-yet-weds. Thus husband has the tools, the skills, ptfe tape and the tin of miscellaneous bits of pipe, joints and salvaged stopcocks to deal with such crises. I played my customary part as the 'stand there, hold this, pass me that' member of the team.
Bad news. So, the grand redecorating and recarpeting plan now includes replacing and replastering two ceilings. They're still there, but will not be salvageable. And a fair amount of plumbing work will be necessary to solve underlying problems stemming from everything being done on the cheap when the house was built. Husband spent a goodly while on the phone discussing matters with one of our aikido club who happens to be a plumber. He's going to fit us in asap - for the going rate obviously. Him sorting out a dodgy tap for us as a favour is one thing. This is a whole different scale of thing.
Good news. At least we hadn't already done the grand redecorating and recarpeting.
Bad news. Finding a plasterer round here who's free in the next six months is currently nigh on impossible. All the houses that flooded last summer have now dried out sufficiently for new plastering to begin.
Good news. Um. Sure there's some somewhere. Beyond the obvious like, at least we don't live in Burma. But this morning started at 5.30 am with senior son having a catastrophic nosebleed, and another during breakfast.
(I originally typed 'over breakfast' but then my brain caught up with my typing and I got the visual - urgh)
So. An admin day today, I suspect, since I don't think the creativity thing is going to be happening overly much.
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