MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch
Project du weekend was replacing the kitchen floor in one of our Georgian flats in Edinburgh. What we feared were boards in dire need of replacement were in fact in very good condition. Resanding and varnishing would have revived their appearance, though some old repairs were failing and some tongues and groves had split. It looked passable through Spittalfields coloured spectacles.
Lifting the first few rendered them useless and irreplaceable, so we carried on. I doubt their replacements will last the two hundred or so years of the originals, indeed the trees they were sawn from would likely have been a couple of hundred years old too. What have we done? Vandalism worthy of the Tower.
I hope we can stain and varnish the new boards to creatively antique their appearance.
There's been a few relationships, rebuild projects and toblerone bars
On the plus side, you now have a load of kindling / making more arty garden buildings material.
Paying into my fire service pension
On the plus side, you now have a load of kindling / making more arty garden buildings material.
The flat has great old Victorian Norwegian wood burner in it, I'll try and remember to take a picture of it. I cut the old boards up so the guys can use it for kindling. It's tough finding firewood in the city.
yes, frequently. The issue is reaching the point where you realise it's another of those projects, and you have to decide to 'make good' or push on to the whole thing.
Most recent was over christmas; one such project was to put new sealant on a run of the worktop in the kitchen. I thought no more than an hour to strip out the decayed run and replace it, and scheduled it for an evening after the kids were in bed so i could open all the windows to disperse the acetic smell. But as I pulled more out, more came with it until I had to decide to bodge it or do it properly. So properly it was, ie: keeping on with it until about half two in the morning.
Looks good now though.
I regret the whole big hitter thing.
Was taking a dump when City Link rocked up this morning, does that count?
Did the same with a 1910 flat in paisley, nowhere had matching boards (thickness, can't remember exact sizes 12years ago). Cut all boards into 30cm lengths then split with axe only to find out they smoked like hell when in the chiminea, great for midge but not much else.
karma will get you, a tree will likely fall on your car when the winds come...
following a professional football club 🙁
MOT
joining STW.
I regret the whole big hitter thing.
seriously? or is that a joke that you've now got to explain 🙂
Riding a bike with knobbly types. Cost me thousands.
There's been a few ...toblerone bars
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So true
I've just realised my original response made no grammatical sense.
I'll make a correction.....pootles. ;o)
Paying into my fire service pension
how long to go? You been totted?
A fight in a kebab shop that involved three of us getting a cab to "do them in their own beds" aah the heady days of Leicester uni and thinking we were hard till we got dropped off in the middle of highfields! Idiots!
Bruneep got 16 years in just had new forecast , lost 80k lump 85 quid a month gonna cost 3.2% minimum more and I've to do an extra 7 years 🙁
7yrs to go
All the bloody time!
Victorian Norwegian wood burner
I can't help thinking there's a song in there, somewhere...
My current job.
Just after I left my old job they all got a massive payrise. And started doing a different project, which would have made my old job enjoyable.
I now hate coming to work.
😐
There are god places down in Leith that sell old and reclaimed boards.. EASY etc etc... but hey may be no better than the ones you have just removed... good luck..
Is that you have 7 years to go mate, if so lucky lad. Just think every day you have left I've got extra to do :'( looking at getting out of the scheme to be honest but they have it tied up pretty tight for accessing it
I'll email you later.
Helping someone out on a web project - suckered into it with a plea that he didn't know much and wanted some advice and help, seems he has become an oracle overnight and wants it all doing his way in spite of being shown why it won't work repeatedly.
If no one else was depending upon this project I would tell him to stuff it.
Ok mate, and sorry for the hijack of sorts 😉
I once volunteered to assemble some bedroom furniture for one of the wifes work colleagues. When I got there she had actually ordered a DIY fitted bedroom...complete with lots of missing / incompatible parts.
Took forever, but got there in the end.
(She is partially disabled, & had been ripped off a few times by various tradesman, so I didnt mind helping her out. Especially as she works full time & struggles to buy her own place, but at the time I wished I hadnt got involved). 🙁
Things I wish I'd never started usually Involve someone else's unfinished motorbike restoration, I've made it to 53 relatively unscathed but I'm yet to learn to leave other people's disaterous rebuilds well alone.
Wish I hadn't started back at work this year. I thought things were bad last year but this week has proved just how wrong I was. With each passing day it just gets worse and worse. Hopefully only about 14 months to go until I can retire.