Month: October 2019
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Plagues and Perturbations
So I appear to have entered the arena of the unwell. This is irritating because even were I in Europe, where being ill and off…
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Less than stellar progress
Today’s been hard. It’s not even November yet, and this morning we heard the whooshing noise of another self-imposed optimistic timeline whizzing past us and…
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We have floor. Well, prefloor.
Our floor is down. We’re exhausted. It’s been one long-arse weekend, which we started on Saturday with buying a small amount of self-leveling compound: Unfortunately,…
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Well, that went…
I started off today with some goop that’s meant to be not-levelling. Theoretically, it’s a substance you can get smooooth, but not level. Now, it…
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And so it was that they (nearly) had heating and hot water.
We passed our plumbing inspection for the boiler. Ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha hahahaha. (Manic laughter continues for some time). Annoyingly, after I pressure…
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Rock on you crazy plumber
Yesterday I arrived to find a confused looking driver sat in a big truck with rock in it. He was peering at our house, cars…
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The never-ending mandelbrot of a single change
So, when we made the decision to switch our boiler to one available off-the-shelf (kinda) locally (it had to be ordered from the warehouse –…
Comments Off on And we’re back to terrifyingly expensive jobs
And we’re back to terrifyingly expensive jobs
So, we’ve had a phase where we were mainly doing things that we’ve already paid for. Which has been relatively low spendy and while there’s…