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Butti's Journey: A matter of loaf and death

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  • Butti
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    ZTD wrote: »


    It'll be fine - and at least you now have a quiet place to work.



    I'm not working from there Z. Will take too long to set up the computer desk and get all my stuff over there!

    Have got details of timber floor insulation and details of Virgin broadband.....and I'm off again!
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  • Butti
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    edited 11 January 2015 at 2:32PM
    Coursework wise I get a sense of impending doom / mission impossible :eek::eek::eek: but at the end of the day I can go back to my house and plan what to do with a 1970's wooden staircase! :j:j:j:j

    Who was the one in Dad's Army who said "We're all doomed".
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  • Knit_Witch
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    Butti wrote: »
    Coursework wise I get a sense of impending doom / mission impossible :eek::eek::eek: but at the end of the day I can go back to my house and plan what to do with a 1970's wooden staircase! :j:j:j:j

    Who was the one in Dad's Army who said "We're all doomed".

    Frazer - the Undertaker!
    Must use my stash up!
  • judi24
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    Happy new house!!!! Exciting times ahead - wooden staircase or not!!!
  • ZTD
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    Butti wrote: »
    Coursework wise I get a sense of impending doom / mission impossible :eek::eek::eek: but at the end of the day I can go back to my house and plan what to do with a 1970's wooden staircase! :j:j:j:j

    Well most people in your position (of having a 1970's staircase), use it to go between the ground floor and the first floor.

    What were you thinking of doing with it?
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  • Butti
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    ZTD wrote: »
    Well most people in your position (of having a 1970's staircase), use it to go between the ground floor and the first floor.

    What were you thinking of doing with it?

    Making it look a little less 1970's!
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  • ZTD
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    Butti wrote: »
    Making it look a little less 1970's!

    So, describe this staircase, and what makes it look 1970's.
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  • Butti
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    edited 11 January 2015 at 7:42PM
    Think about a few posts and two thick rails/planks in wood, dark wood. It has open treads more or less exactly the width of a babies head (health and safety hadn't really arrived yet!) If it helps you could visualise an orange swirly carpet next to it.
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  • Butti
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    .....or a woman in a purple dress standing next to it with a tray of prawn cocktails as her son goes out to put his chopper bike away. Miss World is on the white TV in the corner.
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  • ZTD
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    Butti wrote: »
    Think about a few posts and two thick rails/planks in wood, dark wood. It has open treads more or less exactly the width of a babies head (health and safety hadn't really arrived yet!) If it helps you could visualise an orange swirly carpet next to it.

    I believe that's late 1960's (barring the open treads).

    The 1970's brought us the utter joys of the "boxed in" bannister, rails hidden away by the priceless veneer of the "hardboard" tree.

    I think it was the 1980's that the open treads came into fashion, though some neighbours of my parents have just had theirs done, so it may be faulty recollection there...

    So, in short, what you can do is...
    • Strip/dip the rails/bannisters so they become something a bit lighter. "Chemically attacked pine" I believe is the best description of the colour.
    • Box the whole thing in (not just the bannisters) - this will stop cold air coming down the stairs. It also stops you seeing it, and small babies can't put their their head into anything whilst playing unsupervised on the stairs.
    • Put a stair carpet down and/or box the back of the treads in. This also seems fun... stair-storage.jpg
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
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