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Cheery's country living adventure
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🤣🤣🤣 I’ll +1 that!!greenbee said:I suggest you get the council to block the road after the plumber arrives, and stay there until you've finished with him...🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
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😂😂😂😂😂😂 An excellent idea!! 😂😂greenbee said:I suggest you get the council to block the road after the plumber arrives, and stay there until you've finished with him...
First 2 bits of wall painted! Bright orange 😁 although Mr Cheery did appear in the middle and say "I thought we said that wall would be gold?" 🙄😂 This is just the watery mist coat, so top coat can be either, which is fortunate... It looks ace! The wall lights are paintable, so we might keep wall orange, and have gold lights and radiators, and a couple of the smaller walls gold too 😂 Hopefully it'll look like the inside of the sun and keep us nice and warm 😁😁7 -
Cheery_Daff said:
First 2 bits of wall painted! Bright orange 😁 although Mr Cheery did appear in the middle and say "I thought we said that wall would be gold?" 🙄😂 This is just the watery mist coat, so top coat can be either, which is fortunate... It looks ace! The wall lights are paintable, so we might keep wall orange, and have gold lights and radiators, and a couple of the smaller walls gold too 😂 Hopefully it'll look like the inside of the sun and keep us nice and warm 😁😁
Sounds Amazing!
2014 starting mortgage £165,0002015 second charge £20,000 - Jan 2021 paid off in fullCurrent outstanding balance - £115,8566 -
Just caught up with you... hope the girls are all safe and feeling better.
I have just had a big flash back about the grapes, Mr JSP and I had a holiday a couple of years ago and a few places we stayed at had chickens, (I did check first before feeding) every time we pulled into the drive the rooster and his ladies came at us in a feeding frenzy, I had been feeding them grapes!MFW - 01.10.21 £63761 01.10.22 £50962 01.10.23 £39979 01.10.24 £27815. 01.01.25. £17538
01.03.25 £14794. 01.04.25 £12888
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Similarly old and exposed here in the Shire @Cheery_Daff (me and the house 😂). Although we are a relatively recent barn conversion so have good insulation and double glazing (even if some of the windows are still a bit daughty). On oil and our monthly cost is around £100. We do have a very efficient boiler and system though. Sounds as though it would be worth giving your boiler a good overhault or even replacing it?
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With the amount Mr & Mrs Cheery have just forked out for the kitchen and associated works I'm going to wager that the boiler will need to pull it's big-girl pants up and last a while longer yet!
Really looking forward to seeing how the colours work Cheery - I always loved the look of the red room in your old house!🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
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You got it EH, our last boiler was still going strong when we moved out, and it had been in the whole 28 years Mr Cheery had owned the house, so this one has got a long way to go yet!
Plumber reckons he can easily just bypass the thermostat, which is fine. Does mean we have to turn it on and off at the boiler - but our old boiler in the old house never had a thermostat so we've been doing that for decades anyway 😂 He's also going to replace the water heater in the other loft, so we will have hot water at the other end of the house too! Woo hoo!
Here on my own this afternoon - but that also means I have to medicate chickens on my own too... 🙄 wish me luck...7 -
Why do I get the feeling that trying to get medicine into chickens may be about as much fun as the same thing with a cat? Similar levels of sharp-claw action too! Good luck!
And oddly enough I thought of your old - well more like pensionable! - boiler when I wrote the previous post! Great news about the thermostat bypass though - if the issue is with the thermostat rather than the boiler it could be worth asking how much to just get that replaced - I have a vague feeling they're not particularly expensive?🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
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It's about £70 for a new thermostat apparently. Not that much, but also right now there are SO many things costing a little here, a little there, that we're just going to bypass, and replace later on 🙄 also bypassing means they can do it today, and will be able to test the new radiators!8
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If the wiring is there, then a new thermostat is also a fairly straightforward DIY job.
As long as you remember to turn the electricity off first...9
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