Breaking Through, Travelling On

michelle09

It will be worth it! Hold on to that thought when the stress starts piling on.

earthgirl

I can’t picture your layout but that’s probably just my brain! Good luck with the work and glad you are feeling like you are recovered from the walk.

Karmacat

michelle09 wrote: »

It will be worth it! Hold on to that thought when the stress starts piling on.

Thank you! It will, yes, the house will be a lot more comfortable, and it will also be the way I want it to be: guest bed in one room, desk in the other!

earthgirl wrote: »

I can’t picture your layout but that’s probably just my brain! Good luck with the work and glad you are feeling like you are recovered from the walk.

It's tricky, sorry! It wouldn't be if I was simply describing layout rather than change :o:o it's a 3 bed house:
- I have the master bedroom as my bedroom
- the 2nd bedroom is my office, and will continue as my office. When I moved to this house, I wanted an upstairs toilet, and the only place for it to be built (so that clients could use it, as well as me overnight) was in the office. The office also had a single bed in, and that bed has now moved to ...
- the 3rd bedroom! Which used to be my therapy room. I didn't want clients to use my existing bathroom, because they'd have to walk through my living room and kitchen to get there, and that wasn't on. Hence the need for a toilet upstairs - it's nice to have it now I'm retired, but it means the layout is weird

Karmacat

Today and over the weekend will be a constant process of preparing the house for the builders - making sure as little as possible gets covered in dust, that valuables are out of the way, that I have a little corner to retreat to when it all gets frantic. Noise levels ... pah, they're going to be appalling. I'll just have to go for walks Hardship

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rtandon27

new phone...

...is out of box and charging...

...only took me a week to get there...

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

How's yours doing...

Karmacat

Argh! I took everything back to the shop with my current phone and asked them to do the Insertion Of The Sim Card ... but I couldn't find the simcard that belonged to the deal, so they put my real sim card in, which means that neither phone works now. And the new one still isn't charged. And I've been focussing on clearing the alcoves in the house where the soundproofing is due to be installed (not that they're doing it today, the weather's sunny-if-cold, so they're renovating the shed.

Good, hey?

Of course, the builder ignored what I said I wanted (for the door to be as good as the door to a house) and gave me what he thought I should have (a normal shed door) so I've had quite a set-to this morning.

Normal all the way round am currently here updating my knowledge of the £10 A Day threads, I'm introducing my brother to their mysteries

Good luck with your phone, RT!

beanielou

EEEK!!!
To phones and builders.
I would cry.

Suffolk_lass

You know, I actually sold a car I had bought from new because I do not have to put up with patronising, supercilious men who think they know best. I was lied to, spoken down to ("there, there dear" type of comments) and was in danger of flooring the next misogynistic bar steward who did that to me. I will never, ever buy another Fiat, and I am very happy to explain my experience to any women who may wish to avoid similar.

Your "builder knows best" tale resonates, as if you could not tell!

smallholdingsister

"Do you want to ask your husband about that, luv?".

Karmacat

Oh wow SL how horrendous.

Thank you for your support, you three. It's resolved now - he went away to buy the frame that was needed for that sort of upgrade, and came back with a printed quote for the work - the doorframe has to be hand built, can't be bought off the shelf, its a bit too narrow, so they're making it - at cost, "because we made a mistake", which is perfectly fine - he wasat pains to point out "its everything that needs to be done".

Getting (quite an elderly) chap to listen feels like a real achievement - thanks to Captain Awkward, I have quite a new way of going about these things. I don't mince my words at all (I'm scouse, after all!) but I'm perfectly polite, and I don't apologise for what I want, at all. I'll pay the going rate, but I want what I want, and I don't care that a builder thinks it's overkill. Happy sigh

The phone is still in limbo, but the building works are what matters now.