At this rate, I'll be staying at the aviary for longer. Sob.. Ugh. The work is going slowly, the main walls of these old (1889) houses are incredibly thick, it is taking ages to get through into the sitting room for, as she's just told Melford, that room was the original vault of the house.
The doorway and window (which is the only window in the entire house which has bars on it) are both edged in solid steel. He thought, he told her just now, that she was exaggerating, until he tried to drill through it and came across a thick metal sheet.
Then he noticed that the top and base door plates are made of solid steel! He's had to drill through a concrete wall at an angle of 45 degrees to get past it. Poor man, it is filthy, hard work and he won't be finished tonight, that's for sure.
He's planning to come back tomorrow, he has done the hall pipework and hung that radiator, the smaller radiator which is for the bathroom is next, the sitting room one is now in place, this will leave the bedroom one to be hung tomorrow, he did the pipe work this morning before Richard came at 2.00pm and moved the electrical socket.
What bliss is will be to have a warm bathroom again. On Monday she has to be elsewhere, so they'll be back here on Tuesday and Wednesday as there's a lot of carpentry work to be done, let alone the painting.
Please, oh pretty please, let her still have the old paint pots to give her the correct numbers for the paint that's needed in the hall, sitting room and our bedroom. In the bathroom she's stipulated white, for when she's feeling stronger, she'll paint the rest of the room as well.
The big old boiler has to be broken down into pieces and taken away, think huge and really heavy! The massive old flue, which disppears behind the kitchen wall and up the original chimney might be made of asbestos, so this will remain in situ and be boxed in.
That bathroom carpet has to be replaced, when they've got the old boiler out, the big unit in that room will be taken apart into two pieces and put in there, then she'll be able to get a new floor covering laid, on Monday, she'll go to the flooring places on North End Road and price up new flooring, the bill will go to the freeholder's office, for there'll be NO trouble as she's got photographic evidence of the damage.
When the new flooring is down, she'll move a chest of drawers into the space left by the unit. I'll no longer have my shelf on which to play on any longer, unless I canoodle with Mighty Wizard and get him to put a shelf up there for me.
It would be a special shelf just for Wallaby and me, for no one else goes up there. I threw the empty safety kit box down a long time ago and I know its' left the house because she gave it to Wizard for when he's working on site.
Do you have a safety kit in your house? They don't have to be in a special box, you just need a box or a place where you keep stuff incase you have an accident in your home. Bandages, ointment, eye wash, disinfectant, sharp scissors, plasters, tweezers, arnica, rescue remedy.
Onwards.. Dear Readers.. Onwards. 'IT' will, eventually be finished, everything will be put away. As she's just written to MaryLou, it took her over a week to dismantle everything so it will certainly take as long as that plus a bit to put it all away again.
Wizard will rack out the secret hiding place and put up shelves where the old boiler was for her gardening equipment, as you know she starts lots of seeds off at home and the propagating boxes and other equipment have to be stored somewhere along with pots and tools.
The new shelf unit in the bedroom will have shelves put up, she'll dust and put back her porcelain treasures and slowly but surely our home will appear out of this chaos.. aka 'Can't-have-anyone-over-syndrome'!
It will just take time. Oi vey.. just time.
GeeGee Parrot.
October 31st, 2015.
Post Script. Tonight is All Hallows' Eve.. aka.. the eve of All Saints' Day November 1st.
The doorway and window (which is the only window in the entire house which has bars on it) are both edged in solid steel. He thought, he told her just now, that she was exaggerating, until he tried to drill through it and came across a thick metal sheet.
Then he noticed that the top and base door plates are made of solid steel! He's had to drill through a concrete wall at an angle of 45 degrees to get past it. Poor man, it is filthy, hard work and he won't be finished tonight, that's for sure.
He's planning to come back tomorrow, he has done the hall pipework and hung that radiator, the smaller radiator which is for the bathroom is next, the sitting room one is now in place, this will leave the bedroom one to be hung tomorrow, he did the pipe work this morning before Richard came at 2.00pm and moved the electrical socket.
What bliss is will be to have a warm bathroom again. On Monday she has to be elsewhere, so they'll be back here on Tuesday and Wednesday as there's a lot of carpentry work to be done, let alone the painting.
Please, oh pretty please, let her still have the old paint pots to give her the correct numbers for the paint that's needed in the hall, sitting room and our bedroom. In the bathroom she's stipulated white, for when she's feeling stronger, she'll paint the rest of the room as well.
The big old boiler has to be broken down into pieces and taken away, think huge and really heavy! The massive old flue, which disppears behind the kitchen wall and up the original chimney might be made of asbestos, so this will remain in situ and be boxed in.
That bathroom carpet has to be replaced, when they've got the old boiler out, the big unit in that room will be taken apart into two pieces and put in there, then she'll be able to get a new floor covering laid, on Monday, she'll go to the flooring places on North End Road and price up new flooring, the bill will go to the freeholder's office, for there'll be NO trouble as she's got photographic evidence of the damage.
When the new flooring is down, she'll move a chest of drawers into the space left by the unit. I'll no longer have my shelf on which to play on any longer, unless I canoodle with Mighty Wizard and get him to put a shelf up there for me.
It would be a special shelf just for Wallaby and me, for no one else goes up there. I threw the empty safety kit box down a long time ago and I know its' left the house because she gave it to Wizard for when he's working on site.
Do you have a safety kit in your house? They don't have to be in a special box, you just need a box or a place where you keep stuff incase you have an accident in your home. Bandages, ointment, eye wash, disinfectant, sharp scissors, plasters, tweezers, arnica, rescue remedy.
Onwards.. Dear Readers.. Onwards. 'IT' will, eventually be finished, everything will be put away. As she's just written to MaryLou, it took her over a week to dismantle everything so it will certainly take as long as that plus a bit to put it all away again.
Wizard will rack out the secret hiding place and put up shelves where the old boiler was for her gardening equipment, as you know she starts lots of seeds off at home and the propagating boxes and other equipment have to be stored somewhere along with pots and tools.
The new shelf unit in the bedroom will have shelves put up, she'll dust and put back her porcelain treasures and slowly but surely our home will appear out of this chaos.. aka 'Can't-have-anyone-over-syndrome'!
It will just take time. Oi vey.. just time.
GeeGee Parrot.
October 31st, 2015.
Post Script. Tonight is All Hallows' Eve.. aka.. the eve of All Saints' Day November 1st.
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