Autumnal Achieving

Floss

@Brie I've had Velux issues in previous houses and it's always been the flashing. It doesn't take a very big gap to allow water to find its way through.

Brie

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Thanks Floss!

given the weather forecast for the rest of the week I suspect I will need a bucket on hand until I can get this sorted!!!

PennysIntoPounds

Listed two more types of paint.

Then came across two more excess types of paint. That's before we get to the two types of flooring and the two types of tiles.

All out of returns window, none of which we were told about.

Our builder is such a tool.

C_J

It has been such a miserably cold, wet day that no outside jobs got tackled today, but I did move some piles of fabric upstairs to the small bedroom that I have converted into a sewing room (and put them away neatly, yay me!).

My new sewing room needed some new curtains and I found a fabulous pair in the right size, right colour, with heavyweight thermal linings, in a charity shop this afternoon for £7. They honestly don’t look as though they have ever been hung at a window, they are just like new. So pleased.

WelshmansDaughter

Finally moved the furniture around and cleaned. Not thoroughly but enough that I don't feel like I'm living in a cesspit

Brie

We're on day 3 of 4+ of some chaps working on the massive American sweet gum tree outside the neighbour's house. It's such a shame but it's all coming down. So noise, blocked drive, hard to access our own house and saw dust and wood chips showering down everywhere. We closed all the windows due to the saw dust but that's not keeping the noise out much. And the saw dust is getting tracked in whenever either of us even has to go out to the back garden. I hate to think what the state of our gutters will be like by the time this is finished.

It all makes me both angry and sad.

It's a beautiful, 90 year old tree but has been declared unsafe because some branches were resting on the phone/power lines. And then it was discovered that there is some rot that was beginning to render it unstable. OK a big storm like the ones currently expected might be the final straw for it and taking it down is a safe option. If it came down not only might it take out the power lines but also land on one of our houses and a number of cars. Or people out walking their dogs perhaps!

I'm sad as it's so beautiful and has been a delight to watch going from bare to spring green to autumn colours. It's normally full of birds which have provided us with wonderful mornings of listening to their dawn chorus. We have lain in bed and looked up through the velux window to marvel at it. We've told stories to each other about how the full moon gets stuck in it's tangle of branches. It's been wonderful in the summer shading our house and preventing it from getting too too unbearably hot.

I'm angry about the mess and the noise and the fact that there is no consideration about giving us any notice or anything about a complete tidy up. Also angry that the sawdust and leaves have blocked the drain in front of ours so badly that there is a deep puddle that means going 2 - 3 doors in either direction to get round it in order to cross the street to where I've had to park my car. & no, the council doesn't clear drains here so the puddle will stay until the sawdust and leaves rot and the drain clears itself. I'm also angry as it appears that our neighbours who have the tree immediately in front are a major reason that this is all being done as they don't like having a tree full of birds right above their drive messing on their cars.

sorry - I needed to rant.

Brie

Apparently ranting helps! One of the chaps working on the tree is blowing all the sawdust and leaves out of our drive!! But they will be back tomorrow.

greenbee

It's horrible when trees have to come down Brie. I had to take out a huge poplar recently as it was unsafe. Thankfully it turned out that my neighbours were even more concerned about it than I was (it would have fallen on them not me!) - but I made sure I let all my immediate neighbours know in case the tree surgeons blocked the street at any point.

Replacement electric shredder has arrived - same parts are missing. Manufacturer has confirmed they can't provide them, so I'm now trying to navigate B&Q's process to get this one collected and get a refund. Apparently despite the original order being online, the collection/refund have to go through 'the store'. Although they haven't actually said which branch. I've pointed out that the transaction/contract was with their online service so I'd like them to deal with it. This has been a major PITA - if it had worked it would have been great, but unfortunately it doesn't, so I'm now going to be stuck with a B&Q giftcard that I only used to convert my cashback specifically to buy this shredder. I have no way to contact 'the store' and apparently they're not answering the phone to the call centre agent I'm dealing with - so top tip to everyone, don't buy from B&Q online as their process is hopeless. I've currently got the agent on the line waiting for her email confirming what will happen to arrive.

I still need to mop the utility room, boot room, and loo floors as my cleaner couldn't make it today and I need to get cleared up before the builders are back tomorrow to make more mess.

PennysIntoPounds

I'm sorry @Brie, that is a shame. Rest in peace lovely tree

That sounds dreadful with B&Q @greenbee, well done for persevering. We ordered radiators through them and they kept turning up broken, it was such a mare getting it sorted

More build materials listings, fridgefreezer finally turned off and defrosting

badmemory

Shame about the tree but much better to take it down than let it fall down. One near us did & they were so lucky. It fell so that three houses couldn't access their front doors & somehow managed NOT to demolish anyone's porch. It fell because its roots didn't go deep enough to support it & they ignored all warnings