Hoarding - A New Start

bobble_hat

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Bits of battening would bring up the levels far cheaper without taking chunks out of what is holding the house together.

I think that is what himself was trying to explain to me last night, so the different height grooves would be carved in the battons, to slot nicely over the joists to give a flat base for the loft boards.

He neglected to provide me with a diagram to understand his technical phrasings, so I had to make do with my un-DIY-friendly brain imagining it :rotfl: :rotfl:

We have a slight issue in that Himself is afraid of heights and gets very very wobbly on the aforementioned ladder, but he is thinking he needs to get up there to see what is going on. Can you tell my Work computer is still playing me up!

The_Dragon

guinea_pig_girl wrote: »

I also have acquired a lovely pair of curtains, which are too long, and can't go up as apparently the pole we have can't be removed.

Could you not just have the curtains doing the expensive looking "pool" at the bottom?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

bobble_hat wrote: »

I think that is what himself was trying to explain to me last night, so the different height grooves would be carved in the battons, to slot nicely over the joists to give a flat base for the loft boards.

He neglected to provide me with a diagram to understand his technical phrasings, so I had to make do with my un-DIY-friendly brain imagining it :rotfl: :rotfl:

We have a slight issue in that Himself is afraid of heights and gets very very wobbly on the aforementioned ladder, but he is thinking he needs to get up there to see what is going on. Can you tell my Work computer is still playing me up!

Still sounds far too complicated. I'm thinking more like adding extra scraps of wood underneath one board compared to the next one, more like adding 2 beermats under one table leg and 3 under another to stop a table from wobbling. Get the thing more or less level, then screw down through the board and the little scraps into the beam. Gives a tiny bit more room for stuffing the insulation under as well.

[___________________] Boarding [_____________________]
--- --- ---- --- ............... Scraps ....... ---- ----

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-- --- ---- --- ............... ............... == == ----

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beam ....... ..________________________ beam sitting lower

Pitlanepiglet

I'm in need of some motivation please...I need to have a final push to move the boxes and "stuff" that came out of the shed and are now in Dad's living room before he comes back from his trip. Some is going to the loft and some I need to find a home for the house which is a bit tricky as there is more dericharding to be done inside.

If I get it cleared today I can reward myself with a lazy day tomorrow. Someone tell me it'll all be worth it!

The high point is that we finally found the pressure cooker I've been looking for for the last three weeks! I bought it at a boot sale last summer and it went into the shed where it was buried.

Keep going everyone, I'm sure it will be worth it in the end

This_Year

I need motivation too!

I've stuff to do, it's free listing on ebay again this weekend, too cold to go out so I'm sitting on the sofa wilfing.

Yesterday I got in the car to go shopping, the back of the car is full of stuff destined for the tip. My leather jacket caught on a long piece of wood and promptly ripped a huge slit on the sleeve. :mad: Now I need to find a way to mend it as it's so comfy to wear (all soft and very well worn but still looks smart)

OH later thought he had lost a car key so we ended up going back into town last night to search for it, didn't find it but luckily he found it in his other trousers today. I was wondering what the 3rd thing was going to be as it felt like it was going to be an expensive weekend!

minimoneyme

Lol at the dressmakers dummy, I did that with my hall mirror for ages!

This_Year

minimoneyme wrote: »

Lol at the dressmakers dummy, I did that with my hall mirror for ages!

I do that every day at work. The coatstand is behind my desk to the right so I can just about see it from the corner of my eye. I keep turning around to see who's standing there! :rotfl:

tibawo

I am so cold I have put heating on..need to get moving. We've been food shopping and chicken in oven.

My landline is now working again so I can move bits back.. Decluttered first though.

Really can't get going today. Just seem hungry all the time.

mcculloch29

Tibawo If the weather is very cold, I do get hungry and turn automatically to 'padding' to eat.

I'm a bit of an oddity, I rarely get hungry and can go a day or two without eating with absolutely no side effects.

Then every so often I have a 'I want to eat EVERYTHING day'. I've been doing the 5:2 eating thingy for years, as I do listen to my body and it seems to suit me.

Being from Eastern European farming families on both sides, I figured that they often had feast or famine on the menu, so it seems quite natural. My other 'throwback' to the farming families is that I gain weight very easily if I don't do hard physical work to bump up the metabolism, particularly in winter.
This was fine when I was childminding and running round classrooms as a community tutor, not so good in my sedentary job.

Need to tackle kitchen cupboard. Off I go for more discoveries...

Brighton_belle

blossomhill wrote: »

:hello: BB - you have been missed!

Aw, thanks BlossomH, muchly apreciated:). Sorry to then go temp awol again, but I am now away from my laptopfor 2 days a week.
I came back from family guiltily carrying some rather lovely salad servers that belonged to my grandparents which I love... but in all honesty I would very rarely have a use for. Bit of a dilemma at the mo where to keep them as I don't really have room for more utensils (and I have already pared back).
Making promises to my self to make sure we eat more salad...