Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

My house is a mess and it is going to get worse.

We are having most of the downstairs radiators and pipe work replaced. It looks like a main pipe runs under the hall floor, which means it is going to have to be dug up

Already we have 3 rooms with channeling in the walls.

Having half decided we should have the downstairs loo done soon, it now makes sense to redo it at the same time, so we can then have flooring that runs through from the hall.

SO we did think radiators then decorating, but where does flooring fit in? Before or after decorating?

At the moment we have a solid wood floor like this

We are thinking of keeping that in the living rooms (thankfully the floor there is untouched by the work. The hall floor was already showing signs of being in need of replacement - the top groove of the tongue and groove almost sanded away! So we thought of a tiled hallway. Opinions please. Will it look odd where wood meets tiles? The kitchen floor is already tiled, in tiles I am not that keen on, so will it look odd where tile meets tile?

I want that floor. I totally covet parquet flooring like that. It's my absolute favourite and I'd fill the entire house with it. It's not expensive to buy, particularly, the cost is in laying it.

Failing that, if you don't like the kitchen tiles then I think it would be better to have the hall and kitchen the same, as lir said. I don't think hard floors run particularly well into each other, not least because of inevitable height differences when they're laid at different times. I think three different types of hard flooring would look like it had happened because they were laid at different times and not because it was planned purposefully that way. A genuinely old floor and a new floor would be fine because you can't make a new floor old if a new one is needed.

lostinrates

Solved tonight's supper 'what's savory enough' issue.

Charcoal biscuits. Yep, prepacketed food, no cooking. I don't even miss the cheese. But what I would like....gen feel free to suggest a substitute ...is a nice tarry, leather Shiraz........a tea for tannin just won't cut it.

Water and my black biscuits seems pleasurably spartan though.

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

To see avatars try going to "user CP" then select "edit options" then check the option "view avatars" in the thread display options section of that page.

I CAN SEE AVATARS

Chewie you are gorgeous. I had no idea.

ukmaggie45

Doozergirl wrote: »

You were renovating a while back, weren't you? Is it the house you moved from that you're selling?

Yes, it is. Amazed you remember! Long time trying to clear old home, too much Life Happening stuff. :eek:

Two sets on Flickr of the renovation of new home.

Please don't quote this stuff from here onwards - will remove these and rest of stuff below in a couple of days or so, you can see me in there in a few pics, as well as MiL when she was still healthy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liverpool-leftovers/sets/72157624914189608/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/liverpool-leftovers/sets/72157625637245231/

Too many pics to look at probably, but we wanted as good a record as we could make. OH took most of them as I was too knackered from trying to source stuff, plus a lot of the time the new house was too unsafe for me to access with vertigo. :eek: Especially while there was no stuff up the side of the staircase! Aaarrggghhhh far to scary for me to get upstairs until we finally got the new bannister in! :rotfl:

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

To get one you need a tiny picture.
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Now I have another set of first world problems , what to choose as an avatar and how to create it.

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

I wonder whether you'll think of Chewie and sss555 any differently when you see their photos?

*goes in search of sss555*

ukmaggie45

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

If I can fake it long enough to post here, anybody can......:D

LOL! Guess we all fake it to an extent online - if we didn't we'd be banned from all forums?

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

LOL! Guess we all fake it to an extent online - if we didn't we'd be banned from all forums?

I've met quite a few of the nice people. The ones I've met are as nice or nicer than they appear here. Its alarmingly like chatting here, chatting to nice people 'in the flesh'.

Our mutual friend Alf is JUST as alfie ish.

chewmylegoff

Something odd going on at Waterloo. I'm currently sitting on a train waiting to leave the station - it's sitting on platform 20, one of the old Eurostar platforms which has been closed for several years now. Bit strange...

chewmylegoff

Spirit wrote: »

I CAN SEE AVATARS

Chewie you are gorgeous. I had no idea.

I get that a lot. Can't even get five minutes of effing peace and quiet in my local nespresso bar.