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Minor SHTF here this morning.
15 mins before my company is due to arrive, I went to get a guest towel from the linen cupboard in the hall and found it wet. Having emptied the linen cupboard, I have a water leak from the CH pipes which go through into the upstairs flat (leak is up there, my airing cupboard's plasterboard ceiling is now mostly slush which is all over my linen).
Fanatbulous. Am in proces of hauling out everything and triaging into sopping wet/ stained/ slightly wet/ dry. Will have to be laundering 80% of my linen in a domestic situation where I can only wash and dry one load at a time, plus have company arriving any moment, plus it's the weekend plus my upstairs neighbour doesn't actually live in her flat plus - ARRGGHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry to hear that GQ.
Do you maybe have a phone number of the housing officer with a key for upstairs? (Do council keep keys?)0 -
Argh, GQ, sympathies! Is there a local launderette that you could take your cleaned wet washing to, to use the dryer?2023: the year I get to buy a car0
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thriftwizard wrote: »Certainly something I'd do in a future home, GQ, but for now I need something mobile to sleep in when I'm doing the summer shows! The last thing you need after working a 14 hour day is to lie awake wondering if the rain's going to overwhelm the water resistance of your tent. I'm torn between a teardrop & a cheap camper van (i.e. not a VW, probably a Bongo but preferably a Toyota) but the van, though potentially more useful & versatile, comes with associated insurance & tax costs, higher maintenance, and would mean selling my economical little car in order to fit it onto the drive.
Off now to hunt up some more stock - car boot season is upon us, and there's a jumble sale in one of the well-to-do villages this afternoon too! I will be looking out for preptastic things, some of my customers are very much that way inclined.
I would opt for a tear drop in that case. They are smaller and can easily be pulled by a small car. You can get one new for a few thousand pounds and if you are good with your hands (or know someone who is) you can make one even cheaper. With the bonus of you can customise it significantly to suit your needs. With solar panels and a small mobile fridge you can have all the luxuries of home.It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.0 -
Minor SHTF here this morning.
15 mins before my company is due to arrive, I went to get a guest towel from the linen cupboard in the hall and found it wet. Having emptied the linen cupboard, I have a water leak from the CH pipes which go through into the upstairs flat (leak is up there, my airing cupboard's plasterboard ceiling is now mostly slush which is all over my linen).
Fanatbulous. Am in proces of hauling out everything and triaging into sopping wet/ stained/ slightly wet/ dry. Will have to be laundering 80% of my linen in a domestic situation where I can only wash and dry one load at a time, plus have company arriving any moment, plus it's the weekend plus my upstairs neighbour doesn't actually live in her flat plus - ARRGGHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you've managed to get on top and still manage to get spuds in ground.
(aside from anything else I imagine you'll need the surfaces occupied by chitting spuds to be able to sort stuff.)
Don't forget water will already have gone sideways and there may well be damaged ceiling beyond the confines of your linen cupboard.thriftwizard wrote: »Certainly something I'd do in a future home, GQ, but for now I need something mobile to sleep in when I'm doing the summer shows! The last thing you need after working a 14 hour day is to lie awake wondering if the rain's going to overwhelm the water resistance of your tent. I'm torn between a teardrop & a cheap camper van (i.e. not a VW, probably a Bongo but preferably a Toyota) but the van, though potentially more useful & versatile, comes with associated insurance & tax costs, higher maintenance, and would mean selling my economical little car in order to fit it onto the drive.
Off now to hunt up some more stock - car boot season is upon us, and there's a jumble sale in one of the well-to-do villages this afternoon too! I will be looking out for preptastic things, some of my customers are very much that way inclined.
Could a more modern folding caravan be a solution? Friends have one that looks like an overly compact caravan, until they park up and literally raise the roof a couple of feet - the reduced height makes for an easier tow. Though this would still fill your drive.
Hope you have a successful afternoon.0 -
It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.0
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Thanks for all your kind thoughts, lovely people.
I triaged the stuff before we went to the allotment. I think this leak started a few days ago (it is a slow leak). I came home and smelled something in my hall, a slight odour. With the wisdom of hindsight, I should have left no towel unturned until I tracked it down, but hey-ho, at least I will always be able recognise the distinct aroma of wet plasterboard.:rotfl:
Most of it went down the back of the cupboard, which is where the towels were stacked. Which means I barely have a dry towel to my name, but that most of the white linen (bedsheets) were spared. I have two white handtowels soaking in a bucket of Daz (sorry to our daz), all the coloured towels laundered (2 loads) and another load of wet but not sopping stuff which will have to wait until tomorrow now, can't do anything else until these things are dry. Place already looks like the proverbial chinese laundry, lol.
Lovely Mum has taken 3 partially-wetted bedsheets and a somewhat wet duvet cover home to her place. They've just called to say they're home now, she'll bung them thru her supersized washer and line dry them. I have told her NOT TO IRON THEM but will have to re-iterate that tomorrow to make sure she doesn't do it. it's enough of a favour she's done me already; I can get them back at Easter.
All in all, a bit of a PITA. The council doesn't have keys to anyone's home, so will have to liase with her upstairs to get the plumber in. What's leaking is pipework that connects each person's water tank to the communal system, and the leak is upstairs. I can't do anything as this isn't considered sufficient to be an out of hours emergency, so will call the council on Monday - I left her a note explaining what's going on, so if she rocks up over the weekend, she'll know what's going on.
nuatha, the water is coming down about a drop per 3 seconds and being captured in a sandwich container on the floor of the airing cupboard. I have felt all across the ceiling and there is only and area about 3 inches out from where the pipes go thru the ceiling which is actually wet. Well, most of it isn't just wet, it's dissolved and run down the pipes (and over some of my linen....grr).
Never mind wothisface and his smell of madelaines (or was it the taste?) I shall always be catapulted back to this moment by the smell of wet plasterboard............:p
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On to the proper business of the day; the spuds are all planted, 6 kg of Maris Peer second earlies in 7 rows. Have 'paid' the parents for their help with two bagfuls of leeks and a dozen onions. Cheap at half the price..................
We were up there for 2.5 hrs and it was blinking freezing with one of those lazy winds, the kind which blow through you not round you. Baltic. Typical tater planting weather, Dad reckons, from his memories of farm work back. And now I de-tatered my surfaces, I can stack linens on them, I knew there was a need for some elbow room.
:coffee: OK, I know it's the coffee icon but I shall call it tea and I also have cake. Because I'm worth it - and so are you lot, so put your own kettles on and we can share a brew-up.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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GQ no problem (use all the Daz you need)
hope you get it sorted....with regards to drought in california my sister is a real eestate agent in LA she sold her house about 8 years ago and has rented ever since and as talked about moving to north carolina..... in work tomorrow morning ... so il sign off ... take care everyone
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Commiserations over the wet linens GQ. Hope you get it all sorted and still have a relaxed weekend. At least you've got spuds to look forward to.Dor0
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Aww GQ, so sorry to hear of your drama (I'm late to the action, was unusually enough childsitting). Leaks are one of my pet hates... not leeks, leeks are good. And having to launder all of your linens at once for any reason is a PITA. Hope you're all dried out and orderly again soon.Softstuff- Officially better than 0070
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Aww GQ, so sorry to hear of your drama (I'm late to the action, was unusually enough childsitting). Leaks are one of my pet hates... not leeks, leeks are good. And having to launder all of your linens at once for any reason is a PITA. Hope you're all dried out and orderly again soon.
Thanks, pet, I've broken the back of the laundry mountain and will run another load later this morning, consider it too early on a Sunday in flats to put the washer on before 9 am. Her upstairs came in briefly about 10 pm last night so she will have seen the note and won't have a surprise when the council contact her about getting a repair man into her flat; I'll call it in at 8 am on Monday.
Have slept for 9 hours and feeling rather better than I did. Spud-planting day is a heavy day for me but it had added fun with the laundry mountain. Am not planning to do a lot today, but will spin to the allotmentino briefly, will time it to fit in with a supermarket opening at 10 am. Most of the towels are dry and can be piled on top of the wall unit in the space recently vacated by spuds. Dammit, Janet, I was so looking forward to having that space as.....well.........space.:p
Going to call Mum briefly (she will have been up for an hour and a half already) to re-iterate about NOT IRONING.
Eta: she's washed everything already bar one of the sheets which is being done now and I have insisted on the No Ironing rule. Mums rock!Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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