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

silvercar

We do have 3 bathrooms and a shower room for 4/5 bedrooms now which seems about right to me.

Hefty boiler to service that lot at the same time.

We have 2 bathrooms, 1 shower room and a downstairs toilet.

The main bathroom is served by the original conventional boiler, so that has a tank of hot water. The other bathroom and shower room come off the combi boiler, you notice if two people are showering at the same time; if the washing machine is also on its a problem.

silvercar

michaels,

Sent from my ...electronic gadget which I am sad enough to think gives me status even though in fact it just shows that I am easily ripped off and a bit inadequate..

Is that an ipad or something else?

Been offered the idea of a netbook or ipad. I like the ipad but typing without a delete button is tedious as is the copy+paste mechanism. ANy opinion?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

This is me.



46 countries. About half for work, half for fun.

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

Hefty boiler to service that lot at the same time.

We have 2 bathrooms, 1 shower room and a downstairs toilet.

The main bathroom is served by the original conventional boiler, so that has a tank of hot water. The other bathroom and shower room come off the combi boiler, you notice if two people are showering at the same time; if the washing machine is also on its a problem.

My parents' London house has 3 bathrooms and a downstairs loo, too. And heating (iffy, and my Mama's meaning with heating, too).

Their system has two large hot water tanks in the basement.

michaels

I only have a netbook (borrowed from work) and hate the low res screen 1000x600 approx. If I was spending ipad money I would get an ultraportable 11/12 inch laptop with a proper screen, processor and keyboard but for a fun gadget for a bit of browsing round the house an ipad/android tablet is probably what you need. I don't own anything apple but find if I want my parents ibook to speak to anything else electronic there is normally an app (paid for) that you have to buy first which annoys me.

vivatifosi

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

This is me.

46 countries. About half for work, half for fun.

If we didn't know beforehand why you live in Aberdeen, we would now:D.

I've been to 45 countries. Somehow I think the next 45 will be somewhat more difficult to rack up.

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

Hefty boiler to service that lot at the same time.

We have 2 bathrooms, 1 shower room and a downstairs toilet.

The main bathroom is served by the original conventional boiler, so that has a tank of hot water. The other bathroom and shower room come off the combi boiler, you notice if two people are showering at the same time; if the washing machine is also on its a problem.

We have one bathroom with a bath and sink in it and one toilet.

It's fun first thing in the morning! :rotfl:

PasturesNew

I was at the old's house yesterday (I've not been sharing any of the traumas with you lot but I'm there just about every day for various jobs/traumas/crises 4-6 hours/day)... the vicious draughts across your feet mean that going into the kitchen to heat up a meal is a major decision. In fact, yesterday I said I'm going to contact a Handyman service to try to get some of that draught-proofed somehow.

In the living room when the fire was serviced a few years back, the man put a vent on the wall; the following year he increased the size of the vent. The result of this is that there is a most vicious icy draught across the whole of the floor/bottom 1' of the room and you can't put your feet down at all or they'd freeze. There's really not much point putting the heating on as it seems, to me, that the vent makes all the heat escape. We try to block it off with various boxes/bits of card/old newspapers, but then I worry about the safety of it.

It needs to be sorted - if my old trips and falls (had their first this week) and ends up on the floor for hours that draught is so bitterly, icy, cold (even now) it'd finish them off.

This is the first house the olds ever had with central heating; each radiator's independent - and they never had them all on, they just turned on the radiator for the room they were in (never doing the kitchen/hall/bathroom as you are only in those briefly). My remaining old is now in a house that can't be heated properly and is draughty as f00k.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was at the old's house yesterday (I've not been sharing any of the traumas with you lot but I'm there just about every day for various jobs/traumas/crises 4-6 hours/day)... the vicious draughts across your feet mean that going into the kitchen to heat up a meal is a major decision. In fact, yesterday I said I'm going to contact a Handyman service to try to get some of that draught-proofed somehow.

Has old reconsidered her housing options? I fear you are faslling into a pattern of dealing with it which you don't want longer term and which will be hard to break. I thought location of where she went was important to be near you and a sibling, but if you are doing it all and you are more mobile/able to move longer term then maybe you can widen your search area. I think, without want to put any more pressure on you, ATM you are by default risking making a choice to be a carer long term.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Has old reconsidered her housing options? I fear you are faslling into a pattern of dealing with it which you don't want longer term and which will be hard to break. I thought location of where she went was important to be near you and a sibling, but if you are doing it all and you are more mobile/able to move longer term then maybe you can widen your search area. I think, without want to put any more pressure on you, ATM you are by default risking making a choice to be a carer long term.

Housing options are limited. Options seem to be [1] buy a sheltered place [2] wait for a council one.

[1] runs the risk that the old will also hate that after week 2 and we're no further forward and are stuck with two places
[2] is a wait of X years under the bidding system

Old is now under some emergency care at home order after a rapid assessment due to a fall the other day.

What the old wants/needs simply isn't available at the drop of a hat. The term would be "extra care" which is a defined service/option, but there is only one in the whole county, 40 miles away - and that's full and so would be down to the bidding system, but part of the bidding system is based on "local needs" so they'd lose points each time if a person within (say) 10 miles of it wanted to be there.