Property Snakes and Ladders; 2009

seven-day-weekend

Doozergirl wrote: »

Mmmm. Dressing Room

We'll never have a separate dining room. I get lonely cooking. How much I cook directly correlates to how much company I have in the room. No company = no dinner!

We have just been on a house exchange holiday and the house we went to had a dressing room. Bliss.

(AND a dishwasher. Even more bliss).

bluey890

lostinrates wrote: »

Thats an old question: ask a clown.

But this isn't purely misfortune- part of it lack of planning, lack of preparation and lack of knowledge: all things that could be prevented, and they have good fortun too, the luck of being chosen to get advice from a successful person, and then ignore that advice often!

, and I'm not exactly laughing - though I do like to seethe comedic in things.

What would a clown know? They're not exactly qualified pychologists.
If they are, the credit crunch is seriously starting to bite.

edit: i used the wrong word with 'fun', I should have used 'glee'.

Doozergirl

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

We have just been on a house exchange holiday and the house we went to had a dressing room. Bliss.

(AND a dishwasher. Even more bliss).

Oh I have a dishwasher! It just doesn't work. It mocks me. I've waited 14 months so far to a) get it in the house b) have it fixed. The rubber pipe that H sawed off when he got fed up when we were moving costs £100 just for the part.

lostinrates

bluey890 wrote: »

What would a clown know? They're not exactly qualified pychologists.
If they are, the credit crunch is seriously starting to bite.

But they are experts in laughter/misfortune ratio.

lostinrates

Dressing room would win over dishwasher for me.

Dining room would win over dressing room. But not if it were upstairs.

seven-day-weekend

Doozergirl wrote: »

Oh I have a dishwasher! It just doesn't work. It mocks me. I've waited 14 months so far to a) get it in the house b) have it fixed. The rubber pipe that H sawed off when he got fed up when we were moving costs £100 just for the part.

:rotfl::rotfl:

I don't have many mod cons. I've never had a dishwasher (edited to add : I now have one! September 2009!:) ) or tumble dryer. In Spain I don't even have a microwave.

I had to ask someone how to use the dishwasher in the house we stayed at ....:o

It was great. But don't you have to have a lot of crockery?!

Doozergirl

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

But don't you have to have a lot of crockery?!

Yeah but who cares when you don't have to wash up! You can get little ones too for smaller households.

dopester

Doozergirl wrote: »

Oh I have a dishwasher! It just doesn't work. It mocks me. I've waited 14 months so far to a) get it in the house b) have it fixed. The rubber pipe that H sawed off when he got fed up when we were moving costs £100 just for the part.

What kind of pipe is it? Cold/hot water inlet? Waste-water outlet? £100 for a rubber pipe sounds crazy.

No way I could live without a dishwasher. 1 week was bad enough when the last one broke. Full-load of dishes every day.. takes way too much time to do by hand and a much more hygienic clean with the dishwasher.

Doozergirl

dopester wrote: »

What kind of pipe is it? Cold/hot water inlet? Waste-water outlet? £100 for a rubber pipe sounds crazy.

No way I could live without a dishwasher. 1 week was bad enough when the last one broke. Full-load of dishes every day.. takes way too much time to do by hand and a much more hygienic clean with the dishwasher.

It's teh water inlet pipe, must be cold water. It's a Smeg which means it had an electronic thing on the end of it which regulates the water supply to it. Presumably the random black electrical wire which H said 'what's that' was the electric supply to that.

He cleverly fashioned something from copper pipe and jubilee clips about 4 months ago and all that happened was that the dishwasher constantly filled with water. And then overflowed onto the floor.

Now I'm waiting for him to turn it over and establish whether he might be able to fix this expensive part back on or whether i should find someone to do it. The last time I bought a part it was a door for Bosch washing machine. That is still in the garage three years on. £70 on parts and the washing machine is still broken. Hooray for moneysaving and DIY! :rolleyes:

Can you do it for me? Is this thread far enough off topic yet?

PasturesNew

I don't even have hot running water. Crazy design here means I have a full sized immersion heater, but an electric shower. So the shower works without the immersion being on. Now, there's no point whatsoever turning on a whole immersion heater for ... how long? ... to wash up a couple of plates and a couple of mugs, so I just boil a kettle instead. Max it ever takes if I've not done any washing up for 2 days and am out of plates and everything is 3 kettles. 1-3 kettles -v- a whole immersion heater ... it never gets turned on.

It's not a good use of space either. Immersion heater cupboard takes up more space than the inadequate double hanging cupboard. I've given up putting clothes away now, everything's draped on the airer that is permanently in the middle of the room, just 4' away from me.

Small space living: only works if you own it and can redesign it .... it's the layout that's all wrong, not the fact it's small.