Weekly Flylady Thread 1st August 2011

toottifrootti

Mrs aj how satisfied are you with your current suppliers - if you are then why not ring them and ask them to take it over? good luck with the tattoo!

short_bird

ajmoney wrote: »

Done! Trying desperately to sort utilities etc for the move but the address doesn't exist for me to do any comparisons :mad: rang the site office to find out which company the gas and electricity are currently with and they are taking ages to get back to me, it can't be that difficult! Does anyoe have any advice on how we choose which utility company to go with? We are moving into a new house so it will just be what the building company use at the moment.

AJ: whatever you do, make sure that you have:

• the plot number,
• the name of the builders and the name of the development
• Any partial postcode the builders may have used
• the meter serial numbers as well as
• the meter readings for the day you move in.
• Take very careful notes of who you speak to and when you speak to the utilities and make sure you give them all that info.

What used to happen was that new properties got listed by plot number and name of builders or development: if there was any mistake in reassigning the plot number to the house number, you may end up paying someone else's bill:eek:
Not a good thing if they aren't :money:

I know it looks like a pain in the neck but it's also covering your [STRIKE]ar[/STRIKE] bottom. If the companies make a mess of the billing of the new estate, you can prove you've done the best you can to enable them to bill you if things go pearshaped.

One other thing: take the meter serial number as well as readings for the old house as well on the day you hand the keys back.

You could go with a comparison service but so many of them need to know consumption which is a bit of a dark art when you haven't moved in:D

Flying very slowly due to the heat earlier in the week and the humidity today!

MrsChaos

Hugs, holly. Keeping fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Thanks, LW. Spoons caught and will be put to good use in a minute.

I've just finished filling in OH's employment and support allowance claim. Not normally bad with forms, but this one's a nightmare. I just need the doctor's details now and then he can sign it tonight and I'll post it on the way home. :T

Apparently some stupid person has started a rumour that OH has died. If I find out who it was I shall give him/her a piece of my mind. I suppose the text message with a request for 'going home' clothes came from the twilight zone, then...

Going to make a cuppa and then play some more with my laundry. I can't remember the last time I was so ineffective.

hollyh

Thanks Toots.

My landlord isn't going to just kick us out straight away because he hasn't given me 2 months notice, he does apprieciate it's not the easiest thing in the world to find somewhere else.. My tenancy's coming to an end anyway but i thought it would just be a simple renew.

In the worst case senario we could move in with OH but that would have to be the last resort. I'd be single if it was for more than a week. :rotfl:

The boys would be in the same schools, Ds1 is worried about the kids in his school now bullying him on the way home. Now he walks with a big group of friends but he wouldn't be able to if we lived in the town he'd have to walk on his own.

I think i am going to have to compromise a bit, i'm not going to be able to have it all.

The house in this village that's almost gone i will find out tomorrow if it's gone through or not so not too long to wait.

I'm off to put more washing on now and write my packing list. I can't wait for holiday now. :cool:

ajmoney

greent, toots, short_bird Thanks for your help, feeling very confused about everything but I have found out who the current supplier is so that is a start. Gas and electricity are the things I have been very bad at price matching in this house so want to put it right, I can't make a fair comparison even going off this house because we aren't on the best one for us at the moment. I am going to use our details for here to see which would work out best at this address and maybe use that (I vaguely remember it is the same company at the new house that comes up best).

Anyway I gave up on that and started looking for a phone provider and have made matters worse. There is no line so we need to get one connected, we are considering getting sky installed (never had i but DH is desperate for it) so would just need to sort line rental but I need to check this before I ring our phone company to cancel. I would love cable but they don't have it here.

20somethinghousewife

Living room, hall and stairs!
Wipe marks from large sofa
Vacuum under furniture (re-home giant beanbag)
*Clean windows*
See if I can clean the curtains

Kitchen
Wipe all the small appliances
Wipe over large appliances and unit doors.. make sure insides are clean too
Clean filters and door seals of large appliances
Clean windows and windowsill

Bathrooms
Clean the baths, *loos* (1/3), showers, sinks etc
Clean the tiles and shine the mirrors! (1/3)
Clean out bins
Clean windows as necessary and wipe around windows and sills
Wipe over paintwork, doors and walls
Clean blinds x2

Spare Room
Strip beds, replace with clean bedding
Sort stuff in drawers and wardrobe
Vacuum the floor
Wipe the blind if needed
Wipe the paintwork/walls etc if needed
Wash the windows if needed

The Bedroom and the landing!
Strip bed and remake with clean bedding
Sort a box of stuff from your room.. any box!
Sort clothes storage area.. make it neat.. can anything be flung?
Vacuum the floors
Wipe blind if needed
Wash the windows if needed
Clean woodwork, Skirting boards, window frames, door frames, walls etc
Do some tidying!

Misc.
Sort through the airing cupboard.. can I fling anything?
Weeding in garden
Wipe the radiator, skirtings and window & door frames in spare room
*Wipe over ALL the upstairs doors*
*Dust & De-web all rooms*

hollyh

I've just taken Ds1 to his friends house in the next village and had a sneaky peek at the house i'm going to view tomorrow.

The garden isn't huge but it's not teeny tiny, the house looks beautiful from the outside. I'm just hoping the bedrooms aren't teeny tiny.

toottifrootti

aj - I had no line when I moved here so I went with virgin - broadband is fibre optic - no new line fee because I took a bigger package that was offer so have paid the same as i would have normally for 3 months and now downgraded my package when the offer period ended - does that make sense? (in other words saved the cost of connection!!)

everything crossed for you holly that would be a reasonable compromise

ajmoney

toottifrootti wrote: »

aj - I had no line when I moved here so I went with virgin - broadband is fibre optic - no new line fee because I took a bigger package that was offer so have paid the same as i would have normally for 3 months and now downgraded my package when the offer period ended - does that make sense? (in other words saved the cost of connection!!)

We want tv as well and virgin don't have the tv option here. DH is on the phone to sky at the moment to see what they can do. I have a dongle for now anyway when we move.

serena

:bdaycake: Happy birthday to squeak, and SSL!!


:bdaycake: and to my DS1, 21 today!!

It's been raining steadily here for hours. I'm totally lacking in motivation, so have done the barest minimum. Will catch up tomorrow.