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

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

You can get a row of "grippers" or retaining circlips that you screw to the wall, that hold the handles of those things to keep them organised/upright on a wall.

Or, MSE style, you could use drawing pins to affix sturdy rubber bands to the wall and do it that way

I hate the way the whole vacuum pipe and handle thingy rarely stay in place unless you've got some posh vacuum that has a slot to keep them steady. So you put the vacuum down and all the pipe/head fall all over the place.... then you shut the door quickly ...

Its an upright vacuum so stands up on its own, as does the steam mop

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

... the steam mop

My mum'd won one of those in about 1999, no use for it in her house except the kitchen floor ... which couldn't benefit from it as the lino was very old and shabby (it was still the same lino in 2012 when house was sold).

It was borrowed when I bought my house in 2000 to steam clean the floors once when I bought it.... but it was really not very good. It had big pads to fit on the bottom, which got dirty, but were quite nasty looking .....

Is yours any good?

Sometimes I awaken at about 3-4am and the telly's on one of those shopping channels with the continuous long adverts for steam mops etc.... and they make out you can clean everything with them easily .... not convinced it'd be that easy in reality. I'd also be petrified to steam clean glass as I'd assume it'd shatter.

zagubov

All the best to viva and I hope you get the results you want.

PasturesNew

It's turned cold - and windy. The wind is battering things outside, so I can hear occasional banging.... one thing I like about not owning a home is when there's bad weather and I don't have to stress about the roof or things blowing down (e.g. trees or fences).

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

People'd have laughed if they'd seen me earlier. I was cleaning the inside of the shower enclosure; the water is VERY hard here, so it can become almost completely whited-over fairly quickly.

First I get nekkid, then tipped some bicarb of soda into a small plastic pot (ex cheesecake pot) ... and got a sponge/scrubber .... then stood nekkid in the shower enclosure holding the door closed while sponging all the enclosure insides .... then I turned on the shower head and used the cold water as it was heating up to rinse off, before putting the shower head into the wall holster and having my shower

Two jobs done.

I clean showers from within too generally. It seems the best way. Otherwise you just end up wet and clothed I find.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Ok, lir made me feel bad so I felt I needed to properly complete the task and take the rubbish out to the wheelie bin rather than having the bags on display in the kitchen. Then figured I should vacuum the house and steam mop the kitchen before putting the vacuum cleaner and steam mop into their new home under the stairs.
Done.


Edit: lir, plea

se stop! Cleaning the bathroom in on the list for tomorrow. And now I'll feel extra bad if I don't do it!

No, I cannot. What you should do to remember is this is the work I should be doing mon to fri and am slacking. .

So, clean as the old rotting bathroom gets these days and still be thorned. I'm going to have to dig around for them, yuck.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Its distinctly neither posh nor whimsical. Ugly horrid plastic things. Horrendous. But cats often prefer to drink from running water. Ours have had to be without for a few years, but we have found it, so....

Right....now I am going to go and clean the bathroom and hope that makes the rose thorns I have got in my fingers come out. Times like now is when I wish we had plentiful hot water!

Oh that's disappointing. In my mind a cat fountain in casa lir should at the very least look like this:

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/08/2b/2b/082b2bb91add4f77ce33973d9ddd4490.jpg

PasturesNew

I am food fail. I have the usual uninspired food .... or I can go to Lidl and buy some frozen chips .... it's cold/dark/windy out there.... and if I go to Lidl I'd no doubt "treat" myself to a totally unnecessary 3-pack of individual cheesecakes....

So ... find uninspired food in cupboards and just make something that's edible? Or, go out, to Lidl, get frozen chips and come back to serve those with some instant curry sauce.

Although, actually, I have spuds.... I could make myself some chips .... that'd be the best way forward. Need to use up the spuds in the next week ....

Need to do the washing up first though ... run out of plates
At least that will warm my frozen hands up though.

Homemade oven-baked chips and curry sauce it is then...

Edit 6.12pm: Done the washing up, must have been 4 days' worth there!
Edit 6.32pm: Spuds are in the oven, all newly created washing up's been done.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oh that's disappointing. In my mind a cat fountain in casa lir should at the very least look like this:

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/08/2b/2b/082b2bb91add4f77ce33973d9ddd4490.jpg

That would be much better. Ours is an older version of this
http://www.purrfectpets.org.uk/images/products/cats/cat%20drinking%20fountain.jpg


I'm trying to find a really good thing o plumb in outside for the dogs that's a bit less prosaic but has a ball !!!! so refills.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

No, I cannot. What you should do to remember is this is the work I should be doing mon to fri and am slacking. .

Well, I need to use the fact that I work mon-Fri as less if an excuse to be lazy at the weekend. I need to get on top of the house before spring, when I will have to start dealing with the garden!

Steam mop: ok, but not life changing. It took hands and knees and soapy water to get the kitchen floor clean when I moved in. The steam mop does a good job of keeping it clean now. Saves on boiling a kettle to use a traditional mop and bucket anyway. Plus no dirty water to get rid of. I only got it because of the thing on grabbit where they were giving out vax ones instead of the cheaper Argos brand, and I had enough nectar points to get it 'free'. Not sure whether I'd pay for another one though.