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jemck at 12:10pm on 14/07/2008
jemck at 12:10pm on 14/07/2008Regular readers may recall the plumbing crisis that did for two bedroom ceilings hereabouts. This is in addition to the already knackered ceiling downstairs following a central heating crisis just after we moved in.
Regular - and indeed, infrequent - visitors will know we've been living with Mrs Previous Owner's vile decor and worse carpets since we moved in in 2001. First order of business was dealing with the kitchen/bathroom disaster areas and that was duly done over our first couple of years here. Subsequently we've twice had the cash saved to deal with all the rest of it - only for some other crisis to appear to swallow the money. Such is life.
Third time's the charm. Even allowing for the fact that hereabouts last year's floods mean that plasterers/painters/carpenters are so busy they can charge like wounded buffalo and have insurance companies blithely sign off on extortionate bills.
We have found someone we can trust to do the work for a price that we can afford - just. As long as he can start next Monday...
So this weekend just gone turned into a marathon of packing up stuff and filling the garage/bedrooms with packing boxes and furniture. The cats have been giving us stern looks, in between exploring empty shelves and drawers and investigating nooks between things.
Previous visitors will doubtless be delighted to know Junior Son's bed is now on the driveway awaiting the council's Bulky Refuse lorry. I am pleased that a neighbour has taken away most of the vile carpet for weed-suppressant duty on a new allotment.
Phase I will be downstairs, hall, stairs and landing. Phases 2 and 3 will be our bedroom plus my study and then sons' rooms. It'll be a summer of musical beds and shuffling boxes. Oh and y'know, fitting in my work around it all.
If it can be (mostly) done and dusted by the time the sons head back to school in September, it will be worth it.
Feel free to light a candle/make the appropriate intercession to your deity of choice on our behalf. Really. I mean it. Any time now would be good.
Regular - and indeed, infrequent - visitors will know we've been living with Mrs Previous Owner's vile decor and worse carpets since we moved in in 2001. First order of business was dealing with the kitchen/bathroom disaster areas and that was duly done over our first couple of years here. Subsequently we've twice had the cash saved to deal with all the rest of it - only for some other crisis to appear to swallow the money. Such is life.
Third time's the charm. Even allowing for the fact that hereabouts last year's floods mean that plasterers/painters/carpenters are so busy they can charge like wounded buffalo and have insurance companies blithely sign off on extortionate bills.
We have found someone we can trust to do the work for a price that we can afford - just. As long as he can start next Monday...
So this weekend just gone turned into a marathon of packing up stuff and filling the garage/bedrooms with packing boxes and furniture. The cats have been giving us stern looks, in between exploring empty shelves and drawers and investigating nooks between things.
Previous visitors will doubtless be delighted to know Junior Son's bed is now on the driveway awaiting the council's Bulky Refuse lorry. I am pleased that a neighbour has taken away most of the vile carpet for weed-suppressant duty on a new allotment.
Phase I will be downstairs, hall, stairs and landing. Phases 2 and 3 will be our bedroom plus my study and then sons' rooms. It'll be a summer of musical beds and shuffling boxes. Oh and y'know, fitting in my work around it all.
If it can be (mostly) done and dusted by the time the sons head back to school in September, it will be worth it.
Feel free to light a candle/make the appropriate intercession to your deity of choice on our behalf. Really. I mean it. Any time now would be good.
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