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Might be worth considering doing one room - and timing yourself.... then getting a little man in to quote you to fit new skirting boards in other rooms .... then compare cost -v- hassleI think there has been a lot of glossing-over-glossing-over-glossing here. I suspect there will be a lot of de-glossing and re-glossing at some point!
If you buy the skirting board, you could even pre-paint it before he fits it (easier/standing up outside) .... then you'd just need to touch up a few bits/bobs of joins after he's finished.
Just an idea to put out there....0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Might be worth considering doing one room - and timing yourself.... then getting a little man in to quote you to fit new skirting boards in other rooms .... then compare cost -v- hassle
If you buy the skirting board, you could even pre-paint it before he fits it (easier/standing up outside) .... then you'd just need to touch up a few bits/bobs of joins after he's finished.
Just an idea to put out there....
Well, I'm hoping I'll have time for a new hobby at some point in the future
There are some skirting boards that will definitely be replaced. The rest I think are original so I'd rather they stayed...
Once I get started, I'll no doubt discover a) that I'm terrible at painting and b) that my desire to keep as many original features as possible will be outweighed by the urge to make things as simple and cost-effective as possible.0 -
One day as I was in a van and standing on the M6 in a queue, I looked down at the tatty hatchback in front of me, to find the back seat had been folded down to accomodate two swans wearing 'straitjackets'.
You know how grouchy swans look normally, these two were patently less than impressed:rotfl:
How chuffed would you look in put in a straitjacket and shoved into a tatty hatchback?PasturesNew wrote: »I'll never forget the horrified face of the woman standing in the M4 (?) hard shoulder one busy evening as traffic in all lanes were driving over all her holiday finery as her suitcase had come off the top of the roof rack, burst open and spread itself across a few hundred yards and all lanes.
That happened to my family, en route to Devon for a family holiday when I was 8 or 9.
We had a roof-rack, which had been the subject of some dispute between my parents (can't remember the exact nature of the issue). Half-way to Devon, on a motorway, the whole thing came off, and landed in the fast lane.
Cue my mother having the (understandable) panics as my Dad parked on the hard shoulder and nipped back to fetch it.mystic_trev wrote: »Well, when I was travelling in Vietnam a few years ago, I saw a bloke on a motorbike with a live pig straddled over the back :rotfl:
AIUI, there is a law in India forbidding more than 4 people from being on a moped or motorbike at once. Worryingly, the law is sometimes broken.... (I've seen Dad + Mum + 3 kids + baby on a moped with my own eyes in Delhi)...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »My neighbour has a door the same colour as that top one Nikks. From a distance, it doesn't have much of a sheen to it, meaning that it looks like it has been left undercoated. It's nice, but not lovely.
Lol, we pay for those un shiny paints you know!0 -
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I'm not taking responsibility for anybody else's shopping lists .... sort yourselves out. I bet I come away having missed out a whole section I needed to visit to get something on my list.... although I do have a cunning plan....0
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Yes. I want it to be MY front door. Goodness knows it's likely to be expensive enough (not in the grand scheme of things, but for me). I want it to make me smile when I get back from a long day at work.
Was it the monkey fabric?
No, it was lovely blurry pheasant fabric and others in that line. Still like it, lots, but feel like I don't want to live in a tasteful house.
Had a moan against globalism today when going to somewhere particular for something particular to find it closed down eighteen months ago:(. I can moan about it at ikea tomorrow :rotfl:0 -
lostinrates wrote: »
Had a moan against globalism today when going to somewhere particular for something particular to find it closed down eighteen months ago:(.
My local "closed down" moan is that when I moved to this area there was a HUGE discount warehouse curtains/blinds business round the corner .... which went into administration about a year ago. That'd have been spot on handy if it'd lasted!
To add insult to injury .... the signs advertising it and pointing it out are still in position, mocking me each time I drive into town.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I'm not taking responsibility for anybody else's shopping lists .... sort yourselves out. I bet I come away having missed out a whole section I needed to visit to get something on my list.... although I do have a cunning plan....
Your list is pRIORITY number one. So no chance. Spirit and I need cook shop for straws ( I think) and I want Swedish shop for seaweed eggs. And may be crisp roll.
Edit, and maybe someother stuff. Hmm.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Your list is pRIORITY number one. So no chance. Spirit and I need cook shop for straws ( I think) and I want Swedish shop for seaweed eggs. And may be crisp roll.
I should write out my list in case I can't get a phone signal indoors....0
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