Well I'm back...

[Blue]

Not that I suppose you missed me....

Had no internet connection since Monday due to the fact that I'm living in a building site. The 2 bedrooms have been the only clean rooms fully usable for the last 4 days. Got the dining room and kitchen clean and usable today so it's almost back to normal. Still got no TV, not that I really miss it. Damproofing, don't you just love it? The lounge however could be out of action for some time...

[the dodge]

love them doors blue

[Anonymous]

Oooooooh i remember that blue,in 2002 when we moved into the house we are in now, it was almost completely gutted [380 year old house] we had to strip the rest of the walls even a couple of room dividers completely strip the floors and a ceiling we lived in a tip for 21/2 years bare in mind all our possesions that we had no place for,it was a case of one room at a time and move our stuff into the finished room i laid all the flooring upstairs most downstairs a lot of the plastering skimming etc only thing we didnt do was plumbing electrics etc which were done by pros


great fun but a nightmare at the same time

[Holly]

The lounge however could be out of action for some time...

Pfft, my whole house is messier than that! We're rewiring (and by we I mean the girlfriend and a handyman friend of ours with me on clearing rubble and tea duties ) then comes structural re-inforcement in the cellar/basement/dungeon before the plastering can start ... its fun with a capital F

Anyway, nice to see you back

[db]

I've ripped out me bathroom and the landing & bathroom ceilings- must be the season for it

New bath is in & connected now thankfully, after 2 weeks of bathing in the kitchen sink

[Anonymous]

Looks...er, a mess
What you up to Blue, I was chatting to Pete pre-crash and he said you weren't at the Pod as you very busy stripping the walls?

[Dave-R]

Yep very like my first house back in 1979. I had been in for six months, had just lost my job, and then realised the "builder" who I had bought the house from had just hidden the damp under a coat of paint and new wallpaper.

My Dad had to call in a favour with a couple of guys to damp proof and plaster the whole downstairs. Cost me £60 for materials and that's all. I only had to cut off all the plaster from waist height down before they came and wallpaper after. Being skint I had to woodchip the whole lot as it was all I could afford.

It did the job though.

[Doug]

What you need is for my neighbour to move in next to you, get it done for nothing then, (posted on york site).................dont you just love it when ......

Your next door neighbour decideds to gut his house down to bare brick for a full refurb, gets Bananarama! John Wayne and Doc Holliday to do the plumbing in the bathroom, using plastic pipe connectors, then boxes the pipes in, then turn water back on.....result is hrs later

I get 2 fcuking hrs worth of niagra falls, coming in through my kitchen ceiling , stairs bottom, adjoining wall and bathroom floor, oh and the fuse box, kitchen floor etc etc .

Called for pew pew barney magrew and his mates to come break his newly fitted pvc door in to turn his stop cock off,as his kitchen had got flooded and his fuse box went bang bigtime and the half wit had gone to work, just b4 they were gunna do the deed on the door , found out where he worked and got him home sharpish.

Fortunatly my Ins has taken over and to my amazement messrs Wayne and Holliday have got Liabilty Ins, goes with out saying everything is gunna get claimed for.


Pssst Rant over

[Steve Chapman]

Terrible story , told with great wit Doug.

[Doug]

Cheers Chip, the great wit, lives next door to me lol