First-time house renovation

andrew-b

TomsMom wrote: »

Too much to seal the gap with silicone, to small to cut silly bits of tile successfully. So now he's hacking off the new plaster the builders did on the windowsill to take it down to just one tile high.

I had a similar dilemna with our windowsill - i carefully cut half inch slithers of tile all the way long with my electric cutter.. Could you not just fit a bit of beading to the bottom of the overlap of the sill? I'm probably too late now though!

TomsMom wrote: »

OH and I just came back from getting a bit of shopping. Walked into local Co-op's car park and I promptly tripped on a paving slab that was higher than the others and went flying. Cut my foot, grazed my hands and am going to have one almighty bruise on my thigh. Luckily no ripped clothes and nothing broken. Went in and reported it. Told them I wouldn't sue but was very worried that it could have been a little old lady who could have broken her hip.

Ouch bet that hurt!! Put a cold flannel on the bruise or the emergency bag of frozen peas (vital in any household first aid kit!). Good on you for reporting it though. It's so embarrassing when you fall over like that ..and i should know as i've notched up more experience in trips than Thomas Cook!

OH used to be a Co-Op supervisor for a good few years..she says co-op might not be the one's who own the car park so it might not be co-op who are directly responsible for it.

Andy

andrew-b

Shimmy, would it be possible to move the cylinder up into the loft? The cold feed tank would need to be above it - unless i suppose you had an unvented cylinder fitted.

Andy

TomsMom

andrew-b wrote: »

I had a similar dilemna with our windowsill - i carefully cut half inch slithers of tile all the way long with my electric cutter.. Could you not just fit a bit of beading to the bottom of the overlap of the sill? I'm probably too late now though!

Andy - by the time I'd finished typing the message the plaster was off, OH was mixing up mortar and it's all been smoothed off and drying nicely now. The rest of the tiles are finished, grouted and he's fixing the sockets back on right now. I have to admit, it does look nice now it's all grouted. When he's finished the windowsill tomorrow, I'll have a good clean up, put my bits and pieces back on the shelf and take some photos for the blog. I bought some black vases and put black and cream silk gerberas in for a modern touch - they might not look right now, we'll see. If not they didn't break the bank as they were from Dunelm's sale, vases £2 each, gerberas 35p each!

Ouch bet that hurt!! Put a cold flannel on the bruise or the emergency bag of frozen peas (vital in any household first aid kit!). Good on you for reporting it though. It's so embarrassing when you fall over like that ..and i should know as i've notched up more experience in trips than Thomas Cook!

Only thing hurting now is the cut on my foot, it's quite sore so shoes off for the rest of the day I think.

OH used to be a Co-Op supervisor for a good few years..she says co-op might not be the one's who own the car park so it might not be co-op who are directly responsible for it.

Duty manager wasn't sure who owns the pavement but he thinks it could be Co-op as he reckons they own the car park. I'm not worried, it's been reported and he'll pass it on. Nothing's broken, I'm just more concerned that it could have been my 90 year old aunt or some other poor soul who might not recover from such a fall. If they get in touch and say it isn't their responsibility then I'll let the council know.

latecomer

TomsMom wrote: »

Told them I wouldn't sue but was very worried that it could have been a little old lady who could have broken her hip.

Nice to see that not everyone immediately screams compensation when something like that happens. Good on you TM and hope the bruises heal quickly

I didn't do much yesterday apart from some paint stripping but i'm going to try and grout the new tiling around the toilet ready for the weekend when we'll hopefully get the new toilet in. Also want to get the floor tiles grouted around the bath to prevent any water getting underneath the tiles. As we are using ivory grout we dont want to grout all the floor tiles until we've finished tiling the walls as the adhesive is dark grey and hence we dont want it on the ivory grout

We also test drove the new bath last night and I've got to say it was a great feeling to get properly clean in our own home. So good in fact we both had another quick one this morning and we dont generally like baths. Hoping to get the shower screen fitted over the weekend too so we should be able to have showers by early next week. :j

Shimmyhill

Canucklehead wrote: »

Hi...I assumed it was an MSE thing my mistake but the advice is still relevant in part.

Canucklehead

Indeed, i should read the site again - mse tactics are failing here ! We have moved some rads ourselves and i have got some inhibitor to go in when its all done. The thoughts of a new boiler are two-fold : 1) The boiler is floorstanding in the kitchen and not pretty/taking up where a cupboard could go 2) the hot water tank is in 3rd bedroom and taking up lots of space (smallest room)

Replacing with a combi would free up space in the bedroom and kitchen, also would be more efficient (YAY MSE ) while the boiler was fitted 4 years ago its not a condensing boiler and D rated i think. As i understand it would also lose tanks and lots of the pipe work in the loft (may extend into loft in future)

However getting rid of a perfectly good boiler (i have had it serviced and will every year) does feel wrong so it is defi an idea rather than plan at the moment.

Shimmyhill

andrew-b wrote: »

Shimmy, would it be possible to move the cylinder up into the loft? The cold feed tank would need to be above it - unless i suppose you had an unvented cylinder fitted.

Andy

This is an idea we have had, im not sure i like the idea of hot water being above a room - i know this is me over-worrying about things !!!

We plan to get a plumber in to cost out all the options !

jamtart6

get a combi boiler if your budget can cover it, it will save messing in the long term Can you not sell the old one? Ours was on its last legs, but we decided to do all of it now before we decorated and decided later to do it. Didn't really need new skirting boards but decided to do them now before I changed my mind in a few years

leon103

Hi
Does anyone know the value of an old copper water tank? I think it's a single and not double...

thanks
Andrea

jimbugalee

We're going to weigh ours in soon leon and expecting about £30 for it and some bits of copper pipe. Don't really have any idea but copper has gone up in the last month.

jimbugalee

Oooh everyone I'm so pleased with my latest purchase. Check this out:

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.901-3210.aspx

Ty to MSE for pointing me in the direction of the sale! Garden furniture isn't top of our priorities but I couldn't resist at that price. I also ordered a nice stone parasol for £4.80 and some seat pads for the same. It does make the total just over £50 with delivery (eeeek) but I still thought that was good so just went for it!