my life is under a dust sheet
SO last night, about 9ish...we were told all our radiators and pipework are being ripped out at 0815 this morning. Can we move everything we own away from the walls and cover it with dust sheets.
OMFG. Angle grinders at dawn - literally.
Luckily
jonboy1 was down with me to have a mid-week Sunday ;) so he helped move stuff, but as we had to sleep in the bed, and my room doens't have much more than stuff around the walls and the bed on the floor, we piled stuff around the bed and sort of dustsheeted the bookshelfs (now wobbling delicately in the middle of the room)
This morning I had every intention of being up early and sorting the other stuff...but when my alarm went off I hit 'off' instead of 'snooze' and when I woke up it was 0658!! If I'm not at the bus stop by 0705 then I'm late for work by about 5 mins, which means I lose 15 mins pay for the day, which comes out of my overtime paid time..so is worth quite a lot to me.
I ran up the hill at about 0703 and got my bus. Having fought dust sheets and lobbed everything onto my bed and covered it.
I get home at 1900 to find chaos. Lovely rads, but pipe work over our entire flat, huge drill holes through walls, rubble everywhere, dust everywhere etc.
Now my bed is my island..the only bit of space I own. Although I found the architect's drawings and worked out that there won't be a pipe on the wall where my bookshelf is, so I moved that back for safety.
Once again my world is dust and dust sheets. unuseable kitchen, bathroom is crazy...::le sigh::
Still, soon be over. And our landlady who complained that we'd put ONE pin tack in ONE wall will die. Now we have 4 inch holes through every wall...some of them drilled in error. HUGE plaster chunks missing and solder dripped over everything plus burn marks on the paintwork. Oh, and they've discovered BIG damp in the end room too. BWAHAHAHA.
OMFG. Angle grinders at dawn - literally.
Luckily
jonboy1 was down with me to have a mid-week Sunday ;) so he helped move stuff, but as we had to sleep in the bed, and my room doens't have much more than stuff around the walls and the bed on the floor, we piled stuff around the bed and sort of dustsheeted the bookshelfs (now wobbling delicately in the middle of the room)This morning I had every intention of being up early and sorting the other stuff...but when my alarm went off I hit 'off' instead of 'snooze' and when I woke up it was 0658!! If I'm not at the bus stop by 0705 then I'm late for work by about 5 mins, which means I lose 15 mins pay for the day, which comes out of my overtime paid time..so is worth quite a lot to me.
I ran up the hill at about 0703 and got my bus. Having fought dust sheets and lobbed everything onto my bed and covered it.
I get home at 1900 to find chaos. Lovely rads, but pipe work over our entire flat, huge drill holes through walls, rubble everywhere, dust everywhere etc.
Now my bed is my island..the only bit of space I own. Although I found the architect's drawings and worked out that there won't be a pipe on the wall where my bookshelf is, so I moved that back for safety.
Once again my world is dust and dust sheets. unuseable kitchen, bathroom is crazy...::le sigh::
Still, soon be over. And our landlady who complained that we'd put ONE pin tack in ONE wall will die. Now we have 4 inch holes through every wall...some of them drilled in error. HUGE plaster chunks missing and solder dripped over everything plus burn marks on the paintwork. Oh, and they've discovered BIG damp in the end room too. BWAHAHAHA.