Blog - House

No, not the funniest episode ever made of Bottom.

Apparantly, they’re replacing the gas main in the road. Also, apparantly, they going to run it down the back of the row and right through the middle of my back bloody yard!!

This is going to turn into a saga I can tell. My back yard is fully paved with genuine and very expensive Yorkshire stone. If they dig it all up I can’t see them wanting to re-pave it in Yorkshire stone, it’ll cost a fortune. However, I’m not going to be accepting anything less!

Also the lane is only wide enough for one car so as soon as they start digging holes nobody is going to be able to drive up or down for weeks, and there’s nowhere else to park as it opens out onto the main road.

Sigh…

Sigh. I thought when I moved house I’d get more jobs done because I was livng here - nope! To be fair it’s nearly finished but there’s a small list of things to do that just aren’t getting done.

When I was coming round just to decorate and not living here there was nothing else to do so I got on with things; now when I see something that needs finishing off I just think sod it and go watch telly or something!

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<sigh>

So a couple of weeks ago I decided to get the kitchen ordered, which was a nice thing to do as the house is just about finished apart from a bit of carpet and the kitchen fitting. I went down to IKEA at 9pm, thinking it’d be quiet, and mercifully it was (having spent 20 minutes just trying to park there the previous Saturday I didn’t fancy going through that again!).

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Things are progessing nicely with the house! The builders have got the woodworm treatment done, replaced the rotten floorboards (which in Jeff’s words ‘disintegrated’ when he lifted them, eek!) and are cracking on with the plastering.

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The builders have started today!

I’ve been off work and round at the house with them as I was also meant to
be getting my new fridge/freezer delivered (TOUCH T3H SHINEY). Turns out
Hotpoint had it down to be delivered tomorrow though, even though the
lady confirmed that they’d been asked to deliver it today. Thanks, good job
I had a lot to be getting on with!

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Been grafting at the new house today. Got all the fitted cupboards ripped
out and most of the carpets up. The surveyor wasn’t lying when he said the
master bedroom floor had a ‘heavy infestation’ of woodworm, it’s absolutely
riddled!

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I finally got the keys to my new house on Monday! I put the offer in in the first week of October so the whole process took four and a half months - pretty ridiculous given that neither I nor the vendor were in a chain! The delays were mostly caused by the vendor and her solicitor being awkward, incompetent or both.

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