Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

Parquet floor... We have a lot of it up at the bungalow but want to lay underfloor heating so it has to come up. Anyone have a view on whether it's worth relaying? At £70 per metre square for flooring plus labour, as we've rather a lit of floor, I'm thinking the sums may add up.

I like parquet. Can you match it with new /reclaimed stuff to have same or similar throughout where you extend and make changes?

Its easy to take care of, sands back, is safe and warm under foot for you wee ones....what is ypu alternative choice rozee?

Itismehonest

rozeepozee wrote: »

Parquet floor... We have a lot of it up at the bungalow but want to lay underfloor heating so it has to come up. Anyone have a view on whether it's worth relaying? At £70 per metre square for flooring plus labour, as we've rather a lit of floor, I'm thinking the sums may add up.

As long as it's retained its' shape you should be OK. If any have lifted, warped or swollen, I hear it can be a nightmare to get back.

rozeepozee

lostinrates wrote: »

I like parquet. Can you match it with new /reclaimed stuff to have same or similar throughout where you extend and make changes?

Its easy to take care of, sands back, is safe and warm under foot for you wee ones....what is ypu alternative choice rozee?

Itismehonest wrote: »

As long as it's retained its' shape you should be OK. If any have lifted, warped or swollen, I hear it can be a nightmare to get back.

There is a corner or two that's suffering from damp, but there's so much of the floor (at least in the hallway and the lounge and we've not looked under anyother carpets), I'm hoping there would be enough, allowing for wasteage for one large room. It'd still need to be lifted and relayed though so it's a case of how practical it is to renovate and relay. I imagine quite time consuming! But then, we haven't got anything better to do :}

I'm buying up Cardigan's charity secondhand stock of home decorating mags! I like rustic but not chintzy. I'm not sure it has a name. I'm quite minimalist - fortunately as we probably won't have the money to stretch to too much decor. I had my heart set on a super priced ex display kitchen but as we're unlikely to need many wall units (the plan is for a huge corner window in the kitchen area) and most display kitchens have lots of those, I think we're unlikely to find something suitable. Anyway, affording a kitchen may be a distant dream atm!

Reckon there's about24 sq metres of floor in the room we'd want to use it - around £1700 in flooring if we go new :eek:

lostinrates

Will it never end? Now my snowballs are in trouble. One girl dead, the other keeling over. The boys are fine.......have put alive girl inside in the dark and quiet and will hope...

I just can't work out what is wrong. The one still alive looks........drunk. fine this morning, and indeed earlier this afternoon.

Itismehonest

rozeepozee wrote: »

There is a corner or two that's suffering from damp, but there's so much of the floor (at least in the hallway and the lounge and we've not looked under anyother carpets), I'm hoping there would be enough, allowing for wasteage for one large room. It'd still need to be lifted and relayed though so it's a case of how practical it is to renovate and relay. I imagine quite time consuming! But then, we haven't got anything better to do :}

If you are laying the floor in a much smaller area than the original then it should be possible, rozee.
Don't forget, though, that depending upon how cleanly the individual blocks lift you may have to spend time cleaning, gently sanding the reverse sides, too, for a clean side to lay.
I'd be tempted to see if there's an area which you could 'jig-saw' into another place - number the pieces then lift & try seeing how they go back together in the same order.
If it's a nightmare to do in a small area then you'll know not to try it on a larger scale.

rozeepozee wrote: »

I'm buying up Cardigan's charity secondhand stock of home decorating mags! I like rustic but not chintzy. I'm not sure it has a name. I'm quite minimalist - fortunately as we probably won't have the money to stretch to too much decor. I had my heart set on a super priced ex display kitchen but as we're unlikely to need many wall units (the plan is for a huge corner window in the kitchen area) and most display kitchens have lots of those, I think we're unlikely to find something suitable. Anyway, affording a kitchen may be a distant dream atm!

We have no wall cupboards at all.
There's a dresser & one large plate rack !!! integral small shelves but nothing else for storage on the walls.
Everything is packed away in low cupboards, baskets in slots or in the pantry all of which were built by our builders/carpenters - nothing has to be restricted by standard sizes which is often th case with more fitted kitchens.
Wall cupboards aren't really necessary.

Edit: Teehee - I got censored for writing the normal version of plate rack come integral .........
The censorship on here can be prudish to the extreme :rotfl:

ukmaggie45

Rozee, I keep watching second hand kitchens in case we see one right for our old home. I don't know where you're looking, but this is the place I am signed up to for emails when they get new stuff. It's all over the country, but most stuff I fancy looking at is in London which is a bit awkward though not necessarily impossble. (I'm in Liverpool)

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Will it never end? Now my snowballs are in trouble. One girl dead, the other keeling over. The boys are fine.......have put alive girl inside in the dark and quiet and will hope...

I just can't work out what is wrong. The one still alive looks........drunk. fine this morning, and indeed earlier this afternoon.

If it's just the ladies I'd say, logically, it's likely to be either something going wrong on the egg formation/laying side or.......... it's down to some overly excited men. I've known hens who were almost killed by amorous cockerels. They can die if they're subject to too much male attention.
Normally, though, you see some evidence for that like real uproar as the hens try to get away from the rampant males or, at the very least, very sorry looking hens with absolutely bald necks who are wobbly on their legs.
I've been trying to word this very carefully but, b*gger it, what I'm trying to say is do you think they may be shagged out? :rotfl:

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

If it's just the ladies I'd say, logically, it's likely to be either something going wrong on the egg formation/laying side or.......... it's down to some overly excited men. I've known hens who were almost killed by amorous cockerels. They can die if they're subject to too much male attention.
Normally, though, you see some evidence for that like real uproar as the hens try to get away from the rampant males or, at the very least, very sorry looking hens with absolutely bald necks who are wobbly on their legs.
I've been trying to word this very carefully but, b*gger it, what I'm trying to say is do you think they may be shagged out? :rotfl:

No! Never seen em at it, no feather wear either.

Davesnave

RAS, wherever you are, I got the sharks and all your detailed info, safe & sound! :j:beer:

Many thanks....at least I have the space to give them freedom to explore & expand!:D DW was very interested, and we do need things that keep well.

For the rest of you, these sharks don't look like fish or swim. For many, they'd probably be a bit more than you'd want on your plot, like pumpkins.

Davesnave

I'm not much use on hen disorders, but staggering suggests an ear/balance problem. Unless caused by a disease or parasite it wouldn't affect more than one at a time, and as deterioration has been so rapid, that points to a disease.

But what?