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edinburgher

Aaaand I've drilled through a hot water pipe :mad:

mrsp1987

oh dear!

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chickadee

Oh dear Ed that's not good at all. Its really unsettling, I find, having workmen about the house anyway. I hope that you get the pipe and the fence sorted out soon. I know its difficult, especially with no sleep, but try to see the big picture. This nightmare will pass and you'll be looking back on your horrible weekend and chuckling about it soon enough.

When my brother moved into his house all was well, except he was convinced he could smell gas. BG came out. No, no leak, all's fine. He could still smell gas. After about a week he got them back again. No sir, you don't have a leak, there's no problem. About two months later he was renovating the bathroom and lifted some floorboards to plumb a new waste for the bath which he was moving. The previous occupants, who proudly told him they did all of their own renovations, had drilled through a gas pipe! They whole place could have gone up!

I'm sure that's no consolation for your current situation but you won't be the first or last to do something like that.

Hope it's not too much of a mess and is soon sorted.

edinburgher

Thanks both, fixed now, we had a really friendly young guy come out who charged a fairly reasonable £70 (the only other quote we had was for £225, how can some people sleep at night)?

It was worrying and annoying, but I have no regrets. I used a pipe detector throughout and had grazed an 8mm pipe directly on the side (I was literally 1mm off) :rotfl: I wouldn't do anything different if I had to do it again...

misscousinitt

Whoops!

But glad sorted now.

It's tough doing up a house - just keep thinking of the final goal (that's what everyone keeps telling me!!)

MCI

edinburgher

It is starting to feel like home. It is amazing how ridiculously small things can have that effect (like putting up a coat rack on a wall). It's probably linked to my love of mise en place

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Getting the carpets down will be the real shining glory. Warm and comfy, with that lovely new carpet smell. And then you will forget all the hassle.

And aren't ikea bookcases cheap? You can't buy the materials to make your own for that money. And the books are less likely to slide from one end to the other........

edinburgher

Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »

Getting the carpets down will be the real shining glory. Warm and comfy, with that lovely new carpet smell. And then you will forget all the hassle.

And aren't ikea bookcases cheap? You can't buy the materials to make your own for that money. And the books are less likely to slide from one end to the other........

I am sure we will Squirrel. I don't like all the stress and hassle of renovating, Mrs E and I have not been as kind to each other as we should have been. Hey ho, plenty of time for us to mature a bit :rotfl:

Ikea bookcases are wonderfully cheap and while they're not exactly design classics, they fit the brief of clean lines, function and size that we're aiming for. I will be very proud of our our living room once it's done, it will have gone from 70s housefrau erm, chic to elegant seaside cottage (the colours, not the vintage tat) meets minimalist designer's TV room (the minimalist designer tat, not the colours)

Lovely DD has lent me an infectious bug, so I am working in the kitchen today (although will probably spend a sneaky half hour taking out the hall carpet).

edinburgher

I despair.

We knew that the previous owners had put carpet over !!!! laminate which is in turn over the floorboards. What we did not know was that they have cut a giant square out of the laminate in the centre of the floor and have put cheap underlay underneath the other cheap underlay. So we basically have a two tier floor with a thin dip in the middle of the room.

Carpet fitters coming tomorrow to fit underlay and carpet to continuous room, but my skin crawls at the thought of leaving the ancient cheap underlay festering under our nice new carpet.

Ideas? Call carpet shop first thing and ask them to bring some extra underlay? Doubt we'll catch them in time

So !!!!ed off with this house right now, everything that can be badly done, is badly done.

A_Frayed_Knot

I'm sure you will catch them in time, but if not, they may just carry a few spare rolls in the back of their van.

I can recommend either Cloud 9 or Dreamwalk.