Tuesday 5 June 2012

The Best Laid Plans...

First I have to say that the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations have been spectacular over the weekend and Bank Holiday Monday, and I've enjoyed watching them in between the unexpected disasters of the last few days...

The first couple of days was spent boxing up the stuff in the dining room area, so it was yesterday that we started to move the existing furniture, and that was when we found the problem- damp patches and mould at the bottom of the walls and on the carpet.

Now we have a downstairs bathroom and the tiled bathroom wall adjoins the dining room wall in the corner where I was intending to move into with my desk and computer.

It turns out we had a leak in the bathroom and as a consequence part of the concrete floor in the dining room is wet and needs to dry out before we can lay the new floor covering.

The walls have lost patches of wallpaper- they came away when I wiped the walls and skirting board with hot water and disinfectant ( fortunately the wallpaper is the type you can wipe over to remove marks).

So every dry and available surface is covered by boxes at the moment. And I'm still at my desk in the living room.

Fortunately the emergency plumber came out very quickly last night and did what he could-drained the hot water, so there was no hot water to wash with this morning.

And another plumber came back this morning to complete the work and finally sort our leak out. I'm glad it wasn't as bad as it first appeared to be.

Like any older house our pipework is in Imperial, while plumbing parts now are in Metric, so you can imagine how much difficulty that creates, the supplies on hand don't fit properly...

I'm glad to say the leak has been stopped, and very shortly there will be hot water available.

As to my move into the dining room area that's temporarily on hold while the corner of the floor dries out...





3 comments:

Diane Fordham said...

Hugs Carol. I'm sure that before you know it all will be well. Maybe you will laugh about this one day... maybe, maybe not. More hugs x

Rosemary Gemmell said...

Oh dear, what an annoyong time for you, Carol - hope all is back the way you want it very soon.

The Jubilee celebrations have been absolutely wonderful!

Carolb said...

Thanks, Diane. I'm sure it will just become a vague memory when it is all finally sorted and everything is in its new place.

The Jubilee celebrations were great, and actually distracted me from all the sorting and cleaning up that had to be done, Rosemary.

Glad to say the leaks have finally stopped and the concrete is slowly drying out.

Thank you both.