Weekly Flylady Thread 7th August 2017

Valli

Rather thought things were hectic in Dizzyland, and yes, you've been missed.

Am pondering what to attack on my list, after I have cleaned the lounge.

Coffee drunk. WM x 2. DW x 1

atypicalblonde

Morning All

Flylady help needed please - there is a really odd smell in DDs room, a bit like ammonia but not cat wee like. Definitely bodily. I have arranged for the carpet to be cleaned, turfed everything out etc and can't find an obvious source. How do I best try to get rid of the odour until carpet cleaned? Windows wide open and bi-carb sprinkled all over the place.

Kiddies watching Trolls, DW on with a cleaner in, washing being finished off in TD. Full day out today, starting with taking stuff to local selling place and also a tip trip.

Hugs to all, esp Dizzy xx

Honey_Bear

Lodger 2 out, just about to go and turn her room around for the next arrival on Sunday, DW emptied, sitting room tidied, Devil Cat medicined, Kelpie trotted around the block and has now settled with a Kong, all's well with the world.

So glad Devil Cat gave you a laugh, Dizzy. Fortunately the person I was showing into the room didn't have an attack of the vapours! DC's been to the vet to be thoroughly checked out and he's in better nick than the vet was expecting, so fingers crossed we'll have him for longer than I thought when I saw the deposit. Your week sounds manic. I think I'd crumple with all of that going on around me.

Can't give you any more suggestions about what to do inside the room, ATB, as I figure you've probably searched through to see if there's anything there shouldn't be festering somewhere. I have one basement room that gets a strange smell regularly and I've found that cleaning out the shower drain depewifies it; strange but true. (And I didn't discover that until after I'd washed the carpet repeatedly and bicarbed both sides of the mattress very heavily several times.) It's an odd stale smell, too, not 'drainy' at all, but the coalhole cupboard in the corner of the room is next to the main house drain, so I suppose there is a proximity issue. Only just worked that out typing this, so I may not have solved your problem, but I think I've finally figured out mine!

Your Manly Man sounds exactly like mine JoJo when he sees me doing something he thinks he's better at than me. He's not, but he has to be allowed to find that out for himself apparently, and seems quite prepared - if not happy - to be on the receiving end of my ire when he scr3ws up my carefully laid plans. 24 years of the same fury-inducing behaviour has taught him nothing.

I've just decanted him to the station for The Smoke and then he's off to the Edinburgh Festival for five days of jollity, theatre and booze.

I has plaaannnsss.

pigpen

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

How many days until school restarts?

25 here.. girls cant wait.. I can

pigpen

atypicalblonde wrote: »

Flylady help needed please - there is a really odd smell in DDs room, a bit like ammonia but not cat wee like. Definitely bodily. I have arranged for the carpet to be cleaned, turfed everything out etc and can't find an obvious source. How do I best try to get rid of the odour until carpet cleaned? Windows wide open and bi-carb sprinkled all over the place.

mattress steamed/aired?
curtains washed??
duvets/pillows etc.. they sometimes get stinky with sweaty bodies too
checked all drawers and bins for dead bits of fruit and lumpy drinks?
is it possibly a milk spillage? they stink for weeks
Outside drain smell coming in?

speaking of outside drain smells... best sort that baby...

DW loaded.. purely because I couldn't fill the kettle.. priorities!!!
baby fed, cuppa made.. nail repair at 11:30..

poohbear59

I have been so busy cleaning and decluttering that I forgot to post yesterday. We now have a proper spare room. 3 boxes to charity shop and five to local church for their sale. Feeling accomplished. I have to admit it was mainly Mr P but I was directing.

Bathroom two is now clean except for floor which I will do today after DS2 has showered.

My house is improving daily. I wrote a list and Mr P has been doing heavier stuff like vacuuming and mopping. He had a shoulder op at end of last year so hopefully I haven't 'broken' him all the heavy work.

We have visitors arriving on Monday. Thinking I might give the breakfast room back to breakfasting. It has been my sewing room for two years but it is a great place to sit and look at the views. I have two dining tables in there, both full of my 'stuff'. Actually one has the new window frame I have bought which came in bits, like (who was it? Read it and now can't find it) dressing table.

Plus two huge dog beds ( we don't have a dog) , 3 sewing machines (I need them all, honest) and tons of fabric etc. We also have two patches eith no plaster on the wall as trying to track where it is coming in. It stays dry for two months you plan pladterers then we have a storm and it comes in somewhere else. If i had the money i would knock it down and start again. It is a 1980s extension on 1600s house.

Dizzy_Imp

Ooh get me, checking in twice in one day! :dance:

One free over-shoulder-boulder-holder received as a thank you for being a regular customer from Bravissimo. Thank you very much!

Free replacement screws for my hand-forged kitchen door handles arrived from blacksmith, as some were missing - he's included about a dozen spares too. Thank you again!

Valuation received from survey done on the house in Wednesday. Current value during building works is £70K more than I paid for it in 2015, with an estimate of at least £100K increase in value once ground floor is complete. :T this is without the conversion of the attic spaces or our plans for a new two storey garage. Who hoo :j

Fun day at a local business is on hold due to pouring rain, so I've given the boys chocolate biscuits to placate until (and if) the rain eases.

Tiny presenting me with a book, so off for a read!

Valli

Dizzy we are DESPERATE for pix...

I have *glow* TOTALLY level 3'd the living room including vacuuming lamp shade, moved ALL furniture bar one piece to vacuum thoroughly - and that piece has legs so can be vacuumed under. Also carried out minor repair to wallpaper - I keep a jar of wallpaper paste to hand every time I decorate - just-in-case.

ATB nothing to add re the whiff investigation, sorry. But if something has crawled under the floorboards and died all I can say is, over time, the smell will go.

bossymoo

That sounds like the voice of experience Valli

We've had lunch already. Kiddies were nattering - probably because I may have said they can have screen time after lunch and I'd not really had any breakfast - just pinched a triangle of DD toast.

This morning they've put away the Lego village so I've dusted and vacced the LR, we've made a dozen scones, plus an odd-end of dough tester which they have declared was very lovely with butter and jam. We've made monster bookmarks and played with cars. Well, got them out, abandoned them for 40min then put them away :mad:

Inlaws coming this aft (hence the scones) I presume to bring washing :rotfl:, might go sort my jam jar collection out for her in prep for pickling season <yum>

Think that's all for today really, although I might dust in the office/den, skirting looked a bit iffy earlier...

LameWolf

Fudge has gone home *sob, sob* so I've Dys0ned the whole bungalow; also we had our mail meal at lunchtime instead of evening today, and I actually WUDUPA so that it's be tidy for when Fudge's owners came to collect him.

Mr LW is meeting a couple of pals, P and A, in the pub at 17:30 to raise a glass to the 4th member of their little group, C, who passed away 10 years ago this autumn.
:eek::eek::eek: I've just been informed I'm expected to go as well, and P's wife will be going also - eek, I really don't do "gatherings" *panic, panic*