[Closed] I need a refuge...

u ok Hun?

New car?

#humblebrag

Book yourself a spa weekend to rebalance your chakras.

It could be worse... you could be expected to do the decorating!

Alpkit have a sale on. Buy yourself a bivvy bag and camp out in the woods. 🙂

Highly recommended .

I hope you're adding polyurethane backed plasterboard to the walls to insulate before decorating, be a pity not to as you are so keen on doing your bit in the battle against climatic change.

We are renovating an early Georgian Terrace, we have no back to the house, the roof on the rear is missing in prep for new joists, we have no stairs except an hydraulic lift, no kitchen, no bathroom, a front room full of builders tools and windows and felt and insulation, we have a roofer who tried desperately to rip us off, we have planning issues with two party walls, we have an architect who thinks colouring in with crayon a more profitable business model than producing accurate drawings, we have an access issue with two skips, we have a garden full of bricks that need repurposing and the mortar taking off, we have tarpaulins flapping about like large sails in any wind speed greater than 5knts, we have 8 builders on site who eat bacon every 15mins, we have hole where fireplaces used to be, we have a downstairs loo in the middle of what once was the old dining area.. it’s open and people can see you having a shit.

There are times in life when you should step back a realise “my life ain’t too bad”

...prep for the Decorators who start work for two weeks....

...I’ll have to try and work with 3 blokes constantly asking questions.

"Oi, mate, did you say fluffy bunny pink or Putin's chest pink for the bathroom?"

You should just get the Audi and have done with it.

I should have known better... 🙂

Sounds horrific Bikebuoy.....all I can say is, one day you’ll look back at it all and laugh!  (Hopefully!)

kryton, you need some real world problems to give you a bit of perspective!

I should have known better…

That would have been so disappointing. But think of the decorators as new friends. You could go riding together and stuff. It'll be fun 🙂

ps: the copy-and-paste smiley glitch is still there. Doesn't that make the world seem like a better place?

Nah, we’re fine.. in fact it’s hilarious organising the stuff to site, watching he insides being ripped out, being aghast at the rear of the building being ripped down and held up with massive steel props, then the funniest bit of all was..

I spend most of my Christmas holiday taking off the wallpaper with a steamer, so the stuff had been on since the 80’s and it came off in bits.. as you’d expect. It was bloody cold in there, I was dressed in 5 layers and a mask and armed with a steamer.. took me nearly three weeks to get all the paper off.. bloody hard work..

Then.. well the builders walked in and said “why bother, we will be ripping all the plaster and lath and plaster off all walls anyway.. !

Oh.

How.

I.

Laughed.

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How.

I.

Laughed.

Sorry mate, I just wanted to see how that looked when pasted 🙁

I like this glitch

It's a glitch that is way more dramatic than I could have produced, thats for sure..

The back of our house is missing as they've knocked through to the new extension.  Apparently the house is freezing and there's s##t everywhere.

I say apparently as I'm working away from home and it'll all be finished by the time I get back.  My Wife did not appreciate me pointing this out.

This thread is ace on so many fronts.

Homes-under-the-hammer-one-up-man-ship

The handy guide to sofa dens (my style exactly unless we're going double sofa)

Genetically modified emojis

The paper-stripping gag

Drac's trite facebook response

It’s a glitch that is way more dramatic than I could have produced, thats for sure..

I thought it was more in proportion to your situation 🙂  You have my sympathy btw, we had three months of constant building work when we first moved in here. Nothing quite as structural as your stuff, but the whole living around debris, building materials, builders, dust, more dust and the endless cups of tea grinds you down. It'll be worth it in the end though. He said glibly...

Drac’s trite facebook response

Please send me the STW T&C's, I didn't give any permission for my content to be shared in FB and surely two months from the target date STW would be practising no defaulting to consent.

I think everyone should go through some sort of renovation work at home.. at some point during your life.. It kinda puts other stuff into

Oh dear, poor Kryton, sounds like he's got the decorators in.

We've finally said goodbye to the builder, plumbers, electrician, windows men, etc after six months of them.  The only rooms that weren't touched were the two bedrooms, but one of those was stacked floor to (almost) ceiling with all our crap.  We are still cleaning up brick dust, and doing the decorating ourselves.  The plus factor for us is that we don't have to go to work 🙂

A guide to communicating with working class tradespersons, STW style

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q9tb1/episodes/player

Bikebuoy, a suggestion for you. Go to builder's merchant, buy a scutch & spare blades, get into garden and clean the bricks. Wear glove on hand holding the brick. Stack cleaned bricks on pallets.

You'll get filthy but it's therapeutic.

Ask your builder to price you for cleaning bricks - that should be an incentive to do it yourself; you'll probably do it to a higher standard as well.

Shoulda read "Drac’s trite facebook-styleee response"

But mebbe it's all over Facebook too! This is important shit you know.

So you can afford to have your house professionally redecorated, and are doing so after which you will have a lovely nicely done out house, and you are on here complaining?

Seriously, have a word with yourself. FFS.

So you can afford to have your house professionally redecorated, and are doing so after which you will have a lovely nicely done out house, and you are on here complaining?

Seriously, have a word with yourself. FFS.

Quite right Moley, but the whole of the last sentence should have been in capitals I believe?

Anyways....he's not being serious, he's just showing off!

**** me, I'm so sorry for getting the decorators in and speaking about it, which appears now to be crime of the century.

Some of us work hard to find the money because we've nether the time nor skill to do some things, thats why tradespeople exist Molgrips.  You won't be seeing my pad on Grand Designs trust me.  e.g.  If we could all lay floors DD would be out of business wouldn't he?

Spiritual Home?

How can you detox in a toxic environment, as a wise woman with a silly name once tweeted?

Thanks for the tips on the bricks 👍

I definitely need therapy 😜🤠🤡

I’m so sorry for getting the decorators in and speaking about it,

No need to apologise. This kind of thing should no longer be taboo.

**** me, I’m so sorry for getting the decorators in and speaking about it, which appears now to be crime of the century.

Some of us work hard to find the money because we’ve nether the time nor skill to do some things, thats why tradespeople exist Molgrips.  You won’t be seeing my pad on Grand Designs trust me.  e.g.  If we could all lay floors DD would be out of business wouldn’t he?

This is STW, now where else would you go to get the piss taken?

Kryton is the king of the humblebrag to be fair.

Difficult to focus on your next car buying* thread when the tradesmen are making such a mess!

*well, you know, not actually “buying”

 You won’t be seeing my pad on Grand Designs trust me

Pfft! We eagerly await your 'what windows to import from Germany?' thread, and for Mrs Krypton to immediately be up the duff 😀

Pfft! We eagerly await your ‘what windows to import from Germany?’ thread

#passivaggressivehaus

Kryton is the king of the humblebrag to be fair.

Yeah, some walls are being painted, whoop, look at me doesn't that make me, er....  normal.    There must be some reet poor people in here if you think painting some walls is somehow upper middle class/indicative of wealth/ southern.

Its OK, my man cave isn't as posh as most:

Yeah, some walls are being painted, whoop, look at me doesn’t that make me, er….  normal

You're right. Hardly worth making a fuss over is it?

He says 'painted' but have you seen his ceiling?

I know a fair few people who could not afford to have decorators in to paint their walls so yes it is a bit middle class, indicative of wealth

You’re right. Hardly worth making a fuss over is it?

Its not so much the work, its the contents of upstairs being downstairs for two weeks akin to this:

haha...humbebrag, not heard that before!

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You’re right. Hardly worth making a fuss over is it?

Don't try and worm your way out of it, you mentioned carpets too!  😮

you mentioned carpets too!

I know I know, we're having a carpet! YAAAAS I've made it to upper middle class!

Its OK, my man cave isn’t as posh as most:

meh, at least you have a mancave.

#fouryorkshiremen

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Some of us work hard to find the money because we’ve nether the time nor skill to do some things, thats why tradespeople exist Molgrips.

I wasn't taking the mick out of you paying a tradesperson.  No problem with that.  I'm saying something good is happening to you, you should be happy about it.

Woodwork has needed doing for about 7 years in our house, and the carpet's totally ****ed.  And yet, there it still is. If it gets painted, it'll be me that has to do it, and I ****ing hate painting.  In fact I hate DIY.

Basically, count your blessings.  You could be having mess everywhere and having to spend your own evenings doing it to boot.

#passivaggressivehaus

Oh, very well done!

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Annnnd we’re done.   I should have known better than to schedule this at the end of 4 months winter training and at the end of a sales quarter, but looking good now.  Time to spend the weekend putting the upstairs contents back where they belong and de-stressing

Its been tricky.  Although the painter and decorator ultimately came good, he spent 10 days moaning and huffing around the house calling my name every 15 mins for a decision,  it began to wear thin.  Got worse when yesterday the carpet was laid - very well and quickly by a local family owned place - and the doors wouldn’t open.  To be fair he came back and planed them, but not before moaning about it which tipped Mrs K over the edge and he suffered the wrath.

I spent yesterday in a local social services refuge, and as said above it sometime pays to realise how lucky we are that our definition of a moment of pain is actually quite minor compared to some peoples daily issues.

Bikebouy, I hope everything’s going forward/well for you.