Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dave that dog looks like a X lurcher/staffie or bull by the chest. They are used to bring down deer. Lurcher for speed. Could be wrong.

No, I think you are bang-on about the deer, as that's one of Mr Dog's...err....[STRIKE]sidelines[/STRIKE] 'interests.'

Sorry you have aches & pains. For the first time in weeks, I've felt 'right', just as DW appears to have gone down with the thing I'd been trying to shake off! :oIt's going around the village.

I've been having trouble using my right arm, but a week away from the building may have helped. A few days ago I tried to lay a bit more hedge, but I couldn't manage the saw or the billhook. Today, no problem.

Teeth and dentists are a lottery here, CTC. We NHS bods just get the straight-out-of-dental-school youngsters, who can be good, or barely adequate. We've had chickens with more personality than the last bloke who saw me, but the new girl put his last filling right FOC, and she didn't treat me like a complete idiot either. I also have the odd fizzy drink and I'm not apologising!

It's good you're out of pain, but how are you going to bite into all those bacon sarnies? :cool:

alfie_1

fancy having this live next door dave ??

Davesnave

If I had a dog next door like the one in the first picture, alfie, I'd just Photoshop-swap it's head with a cabbage! :rotfl:

Yes, I think the dog is a terrier breed with Staffie in it somewhere. They aren't the best at being given nothing to do and no leadership.

Lovely morning here again. River levels are fine.

choille

Funny pics Alfie!

Water tank arrived & wood wee digga for finishing off the track, but just going to carry the wood down.

Supposed to be getting the new boiler too but it was behind some other stuff so the delivery guy didn't quite manage/bother to get it out - we need it for Wednesday! I always tip him so I am a tad disapointed with him also I've been left to shift/carry the stuff on my won.
Gorgeous day here - all sun & long shadows.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

water pressure is pretty good,


the bum washer can go in the garden as a planter,


if the bath is on the small side, then we will just have to live with it, until one day we could afford to change it.


we are getting to the 'everything costs money' stage, and there is no getting away from this part...


now that the new upstairs floor is more or less in, ceiling hasn't been done yet, i am sooooo tempted to find out the cost of keeping it volted... as now i can really see the old wooden roof main beams, and the old bolts and thick wooden pegs holding them together... what would i do about the main light in there then??? chandeilier hanging from the centre bean??

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

now that the new upstairs floor is more or less in, ceiling hasn't been done yet, i am sooooo tempted to find out the cost of keeping it volted... as now i can really see the old wooden roof main beams, and the old bolts and thick wooden pegs holding them together... what would i do about the main light in there then??? chandeilier hanging from the centre bean??

I'm thinking, "OK, nice, but cold, and would it ever have been like that?"

Maybe put back features if they were there to start with, but would this be creating them......:think: ?

choille

I have to agree with Dave. Most heat is lost through the roof & if you want to keep future 'heating' costs down I would insulate, insulate, insulate.

You can pick up a new bath really cheap CTC.

I am looking at ones on Victoiria Plumb, but we did get a new steel one for £60 that is a ordinary bog standard, but I don't want to use that. I am going to Gumtree it.

alfie_1

CTC.... why not compromise and have half the eaves but put in a ceiling . so it sort of goes.. wall, slope, ceiling. you would get a sort of dutch barn shape ? you can insulate / the ceiling bit and then insulate and insert between beams . the beams on slope will show ?? i agree re bath etc. i love the rope? pattern. look fab in your bathroom .. im busy packing for this show.... there is sssssssooooooooooo much !!

lostinrates

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow alf.

CTC, out kitchen ceiling was how alf suggests befor we ripped it all out and it was really nice.


You can do eaves, but you WILL need solid insulation, like kingspan , so you will lose seeing timbers apart from any big beams......that's what we were left with. Its quite thick its worth looking whether that depth would let you see any pegs etc or not.


Sometimes, even in our super insulated 'wing' I stick my hand in the air and its amazing how much warmer it is 'up there'. Hot air really does rise. With increasing utilities costs our high ceilings are a huge luxury.

choille

I do like those egg shaped baths - free standing ones. I do wonder about a spa bath - anyone any ideas about either. Builder friend said tha the free standing ones with the tower taps are often used to pull on when getting out so they give way so would have to do something about that. I just like the clean lines of the egg shaped ones.