Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Any body heard that before?

Raspberry replant diseases, affected like roses.

choille

Lovely day here - It didn't rain nor blow a gale. How odd.

Got a fair bit done on the house with new plasterer & plumber here. Feels better & looks better already. My rubbish/ebay treasures is cluttering the place up so will have to have a tidy up & try & squeeze stuff into boxes & pack into the shed.

Have given up a care-taking job that was more trouble than it was worth, but still feel I should have tholled it for this year - but if I was to work out my hourly rate it would be half the minimum wage. It was getting depressing as I knew I was being taken for a mug.....

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Lovely day here - It didn't rain nor blow a gale. How odd..

We had a grey day here, with a very chilly breeze. It was so bad I couldn't feel my fingers after half an hour of 'painting' buttercups in the ornamental garden.

Glad to hear the house is coming on well.:) People who haven't been here for a while are kinda shell-shocked when they go to the front door that isn't there, enter where there used to be a bedroom and arrive in the kitchen at the 'wrong' end.

People say, "Would you do this again?" and we reply, "No!" :rotfl:

Pete's coming up with a load of logs tomorrow, ("They'm a bit wet, mind, but good in a twelvemonth!" ) so I asked for a few more bales of hay. The 'tame' sheep has been watching me for the last couple of days and rushes over if I go near the fence. I keep having to apologise to it for the poor service here......:o

lostinrates

ferretkeeper wrote: »

Corrrrr! It's freezing, I think we need to check our loft insulation:eek: I know it has been done, there's a certificate of some sort stapled to the rafters. And we had the cavity filled a couple of years ago. But it's still colder inside than out, or it seems like it. I get so cold if I come in for lunch, I could go to bed but I just get back out and carry on!

There is a point at which more insulation doesn't make sense, the cost doesn't keep up with the savings, but I think Building regs are still a bit conservative. This is the biggest reason why we'll build our extension with straw bales, they exceed all the regs by a lot. If I could I'd wrap this house with them, but it's so close to the boundaries I just can't
!

One of the issues will a very well insulated house is they keep the cold in as well as the heat. In summer our house is amazing, we will never, ever need air conditioning, Its always deliciously cool. But it also means that when the house gets cold, and its warming up out side......that happens quite a bit here.


Things I do to combat it include things like leave the oven door open when I have finished cooking, the residual heat goes a surprising way even in our not small kitchen.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

my gran used to do that LIR...


the ranch is lovely and cool in the summer on hot days, and when we light a fire now and again, within 20 mins the room, and some of the rest of the house ( direct upstairs rooms) and lovely and and warm.. and the house stays warm for a good while after the fire has gone out due to the stone being nice and warm..


even though we are still on the ceiling and partitioning wall on one side of the house, and the stonemason will be back either this week, or next to do a large crack on the outer back wall, I am now trying to focus on getting money in to do the kitchen floor, Its not going to be hugely expensive, as we already have the thick insulation boards, had them for nothing a few years ago lol.. .. and money to pay for the windows we have ordered... even though we had prices for all the house, we had it divided into 3, the side of the house we are doing now, the other side of the house ( less windows) and the doors.. so at least this way, its manageable chunks rather than one big huge expense all in one go..


Any ideas what we can do with the pvc windows that are coming out apart from the bay? ( think there are only 2 or 3 in the whole house?) they are quite small..

alfie_1

Ctc. You could put t
hem on top of 4 stakes (1_2ft high) to help seedlings ? Bit like a roof to concentrate sun, protction from elements

alfie_1

Off to visit mum, give her pressie and run the gauntlet with visiting sister..... one day I will do SOMETHING right in her eyes....:o

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

Ctc. You could put t
hem on top of 4 stakes (1_2ft high) to help seedlings ? Bit like a roof to concentrate sun, protction from elements

...Or use them when you renovate the outdoor dunnie. :rotfl:

We swapped our windows around, so only had to buy a couple of them. We still got one of those wrong, but I haven't given up on using it, perhaps on the garage or the barn.

Another grey day here, but I'm indoors levelling another floor, filling and painting.:(

Might slip away to the poly later....;)

DW has been having second thoughts on the kitchen and has very bravely asked the Howdens man to visit tomorrow. He's fairly elderly and says he's done kitchen design for many years, so we'll run our current design past him and see what transpires....

Meanwhile, DD2 has just informed us that she'll be moving from Bournemouth to Bristol in the summer, so that'll be a bit easier, travel-wise, for all concerned.

alfie_1

Well ''sister'' trumped me and got mum a guinea pig run ..... said '' oh, didn't know you were DEFINATELY getting one'' then told me to get my money back..:mad: poor mum was put on the spot so I politely had a cuppa and scarpered .... tad pithed off but I should be used to it by now stayed dry today so may thrash the living daylight out of the lawn.....;)

choille

I always wanted a sister but most folk wouldn't give me their's!

Well beleive it or not it's glorious here - 2 days in a row - but a hard frost this morning.

Guy came to see us today who is going to give us a hand to finish the outside & get the flue up etc. He seems fair enough - he starts tuesday. Let's hope he does. He comes recommended, but I am a cynic until I see them work.

Kitchen is coming on now & I feel better after 'The Plasterer Incident!' one door closes- another one opens sort of stuff. OH reckons it's nearly 4 months he's messed us about. I got I couldn't think straight.

The bright beautiful day helps - most people here were ready to surrender - it was such an awful Winter.