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23 Reasons Why My Life Is Chaos

If we had known what we know now, the sound-proofing project would have been done in week one and before we bought furniture or unpacked any boxes. Watching new plaster dry is as stimulating and progressive as watching paint dry. Having a whole room devoid of the detritus of home life means all the other rooms are over-flowing. The other rooms were sort of over-flowing anyway. It's unfathomable that all this detritus (I am being polite) could fit into the smaller dwelling we left, ... read more

It is all in the timing

Some of you may know that we replaced our entire central heating system in the early months of 2007. What none of you will know is that after I had pulled up all those nails and lifted the hardboard that lies over the floorboards (definitely not the most bizarre flooring combination in this block I can assure you!), and after the lovely men had performed noisily for an entire week... a decision was made that the hardboards would henceforth be attached to the floorboards with screws instead of ... read more

It Works!

The lovely men left a couple of hours ago and I must say I will miss them. A nicer couple of guys, father and son, you couldn't hope for. Aye well when you work at home the company is a nice wee change. Today they fitted the towel rail and finished connecting everything up, filled the system with water and tested it. WOW - these radiators are way more effective than the old ones and this is good for my toeses, the environment and our pocket. They also bricked up the old fireplace and ... read more

Heating Installation Update

Well it has been an interesting week - much less traumatic than I anticipated, but then I was a little pre-occupied with the the loss of a friend. On Monday morning we took up the rest of the hall floor: Then the lovely men came and started to get to work. They did lots of things like tying off the hot water tank - isolating it so that we could still have hot water before draining the radiator system. They removed floorboards and took out pipes and removed the old radiators and then ... read more

Preparing for the Invasion

This is a long story and it is growing... Last year the council decided that the chimney stacks on this row of flats was in need of compulsory repair. Needless to say no-one got off their bum and organised the repairs so the council went ahead. They put up lots of scaffolding, made a lot of noise and very occasionally they did some work. When they got to our chimney, they had to send in a gas fitter to disconnect our gas so they could block up the fire place. He informed us that our back ... read more