Room for rent

Big_Tone_2

& :rotfl:

Well I guess I shouldn’t think of a career in espionage.;)

I have nothing in my defence your honour, except that I work for the NHS and have always been OTT.


I hope this site can tolerate me? I’ve not been kicked off one yet, although the night is young...

I never said I was normal but that wasn't in the terms and conditions, or if it was I didn’t see it




Yey! I can use links now at last!

I'm Tone/Tony or Big Tone (Some imposter knicked the one without the underscore :mad: )

I have ten digits and two eyes and I use them in that ratio.

Big Tone

ThriftyFelicity wrote: »

Well first off, you've got me totally wrong, I would in fact be just as likely to give my hubby a kidney as one of my four cats Secondly I would make a most unsuitable lodger even if unattached as I would insist that your dining room be turned into the brewing room, with all manner of homemade wine and cider in various stages of fermentation happily bubbling away, thus forcing you to have all your meals on a tray in your lap in front of the telly or alternatively to eat whilst standing in front of the kitchen sink

ThriftyFelicity wrote: »

Hmmm, engineers steel rule... biker... naked Tuesdays... Polar Bear... you are painting quite the image of yourself, Big Tone... I am picturing a somewhat hairy biker with a pocket protector who does DIY naked in the winter with all the windows open and makes sure everything is measured to the nearest 10th of a mm...

geordie_joe

Big_Tone wrote: »

Personally, I see nothing wrong with 5C, but then I'm also a biker and therefore imune to cold.

I'm like a Polar Bear, only not as big & hairy and smell nicer.:)

So why do you have your heating set to 21C

I'm a Geordie, but moved to Dorset 12 years ago. for the first 10 years I never turned my heating on, or had the windows completely closed. I always knew what the temprature in my house was, it was the same as it was outside.

Big_Tone_2

geordie_joe wrote: »

So why do you have your heating set to 21C

I hope it makes sense but I think it's a biological thing. Sometimes 21 deg feels about right and other times I am too hot at 16 deg. I know I feel the cold more if I haven't eaten.

The same with my telly; sometimes #12 sounds loud and other times I can hardly hear it at #18. To extrapolate further.. Sometimes I look in the mirror and I look young and handsome but other times I see Quasimodo looking back at me and feel like I have a good face for radio.:D

geordie_joe wrote: »

I'm a Geordie, but moved to Dorset 12 years ago. for the first 10 years I never turned my heating on, or had the windows completely closed. I always knew what the temprature in my house was, it was the same as it was outside.

I remember the opposite thing happening to me. I worked in California for two years so you can imagine what coming back here felt like...

heretolearn_2

There are so many different ways to approach this. If you are worried about privacy etc you don't have to offer a houseshare, it can be literally 'room' only. OK, you do have to let them out to go to the loo, lol.

I think adding locks etc helps with the idea of 'rooms' and not 'house'. When we bought our house it had been used as a lodging house - with every room rented out and even the living room used as a bedroom, with no communcal areas apart from kitchen. Every room had a lock on it (still does, it's a bit weird having a Yale lock on every door, but hey ho, new doors and frames not out biggest priority.).

We decided to let out 2 of the rooms and these rooms shared a bathroom. They had use of the kitchen as well. That was it. They basically 'lived' in their own room, we had no communal areas apart from kitchen, they cleaned own rooms and bathroom.

Apart from now and then bumping into one in the kitchen, we hardly knew they were there!

Pick your tenants carefully though - ours both worked long hours and were working away from their homes, so basically just wanted somewhere to stay that was cheaper than a hotel, they weren't in the mind frame of 'home'.