Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

michaels

What if you tied a chair to the sack barrow using a belt?

vivatifosi

wageslave wrote: »

Questions I cant answer.........
How having started painting the hall and stairs how do I reach the places a small woman with a fear of heights cant reach without splattering the dark wooden beam bits with emulsion?

Well bloomin' 'eck!!! How the devil are you? Welcome back!

My dad's a builder and he uses a ladder secured against a stair tread. However with a fear of heights.... I'd call a man with a van who can.

How's the shoe collection?

PasturesNew

wageslave wrote: »

Questions I cant answer.........
How having started painting the hall and stairs how do I reach the places a small woman with a fear of heights cant reach without splattering the dark wooden beam bits with emulsion?

We will deal with "cutting in" at a whole different date

I am seriously starting to think this whole money saving thing can be horrendously expensive

1] A broomstick and a paintbrush nailed to the end of it at an angle... then very very slowly. It's probably best if you do the edges first, before you're fed up with the job, as the rest of it's easier.

Generali

wageslave wrote: »

Questions I cant answer.........
How having started painting the hall and stairs how do I reach the places a small woman with a fear of heights cant reach without splattering the dark wooden beam bits with emulsion?

We will deal with "cutting in" at a whole different date

I am seriously starting to think this whole money saving thing can be horrendously expensive

Get thee to your local tool hire shop and get a proper stair ladder.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

What if you tied a chair to the sack barrow using a belt?

I'm wondering how much weight a plastic garden mower can support.... I'll get up early and measure up the chairs/barrow ... and find a belt.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm blushing now lir. There are lots of nice people hereabouts and the reason we work is we all help each other. I do rather like the idea of being a dame though, and there are definitely times in the wider forum that it feels like a pantomime!

I do not like it when things are copied for ridicule...but as we're talking pantomime, someone in this thread reminds me of the back end of a horse. (not me:p) or at least aswell as me.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3381166

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

.... (and you will probably tell me that's not that local)....

It's about a 40 mile round trip ... and our destination.... so would make the total trip: there/back, there/back, there/back. So 120 mile round trip for a 15-20 minute chat

vivatifosi wrote: »

Or ask the hospital if you need mobility aids. If there are problems getting to the car or into the hospital and lots of visits are planned that could work better - providing of course the house isn't on a hill and at the top of a flight of steps!

Once I get there it's fine. Tip the old out onto the pavement, while I run to get a chair .... it's this end I have a potential problem with - and won't know the situation until it's time to load up ... also, the journey etc will have taken its toll, so might have to leave the old in the car for half an hour to recover after we get home again.

For the future, with time, things are possible. It's all this last minute/didn't expect that stuff I am encountering daily that are the problem.

3-4 days ago I know the old could make the (flat) distance of 60', very slowly with only one sit down.... now I'm not so sure (the old hasn't been that far since then).

SingleSue

Well we spent several hours up at A&E today....outcome was that no bones broken but a very bad sprain. It was quite funny watching his foot and ankle area blow up even more after they had mucked about with it, although that reaction did worry them somewhat!

So, he has been told to rest and keep it elevated which means no part time job, no jumping on and off buses/trains to see his girlfriend and a bit of a begger of a start to our annual holiday (coming very soon).

Great fun though, he didn't want me to drop him off outside A&E so I found the closest parking space and he started to hop his way in until a nurse stopped him a few steps away from the car and directed me to get a wheelchair.....must have been the oddest sight, a person with a crutch on one arm and pulling a wheelchair behind her with the other!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

One important question.

''Please may I have an email address or phone number for someone I can contact if we have questions about any of this after we've taken it all in?''

re old, front passenger seat is the ideal place. Sit on something slippy, like a plastic bag, that allows you to ''swivel'' him on the seat. Get wheelchair from hopital reception...ask them, explain why, then wheelchair by car door, with brake on, then ..if you pout your arms under his, join at the back and one good heave with a very small body turn....get the wheelchair position right.

Its not dignified or particularly bonding but you can at least silently enjoy for once being in control while controlling old is in the chair and YOU are pushing;)

Good question.

Good idea with the plastic bag idea, I'll get a bin liner... but my car's too high to get them into a chair. Have to get them out first. Hanging onto the door the old would be able to step out of the car I'm guessing. And I am too small to get my arms round the old... the old's bigger than me and I have short arms... and I don't heave/I'm weak. It'd end in tears there'd be two of us flailing on the ground looking daft.

lostinrates

PN, if old can walk a bit, can you take a kitchen chair towards car with you so he can have a break as needed?