marjon said:
The present wood is for a ceiling so is only thin but has been stored dry, in the same environment as its going to be fitted.
As I said to M if we stored it where it is to be fitted I wouldn't be able to fit it (space). We are far from needing the floor, but sometimes my opinion (the guy doing the work) doesn't count:rolleyes:. So I have to jump on a n other job for love🤗 as you do.

Then I can get on with the other jobs at the top of the list.

But in defense of Ms "we need it now" We have often found here that we see something and agree that is what we need, 2months later shop or product has gone. The Hall is wood floor (was to continue into the east wing) but the woodyard don't do it anymore. So sometimes I can see the sense in stocking jobs when they have what you want.

J
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Too right. It is as if they want to go out of their way to ensure that they never have it in exactly the same shape. size, style as before. Or even at all. Especially in July/August.
When I finally got around to fitting the wooden floor in the bedroom I discovered that my son -in-law the builder, with whom I was buying it, in the UK, as he was buying absolute shedloads for the big house he was building, (so I got trade price) , had undermeasured it by precisely one plank and no, I didn't have too much waste as there wasn't any. He had shown me how to lay it.

So, got back to the UK and he told me where he'd got it from, (I didn't even know that) and I went off to buy some more, it made sense to carry on the wooden flooring into the walk in wardrobe anyway.
So I bought a load and when I arrived back in Frog land discovered that it was just a teeny weeny bit thicker. So it is fitted, and it's in and looks lovely, and feels lovely underfoot. But I still know exactly where the join is and can't help feeling for it with my foot from time to time!

When it came to the decking, and I thought I'd be forced to buy more, I hunted around and the only place that did exactly the same style and thickness was Toulouse. 1 1/2 hours away!

I find that W "asks" me to do about 4 or 5 jobs then gets upset when I do them. Usually because I am doing them in the "wrong" order. Until I explain that I can't do this until that is done and the reasoning behind. :rolleyes:
 
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Stanleysteamer said:
Don't worry, we took on our house from the builders in 2008, We were both still working then so could only fit it out during the holidays, I was often here on my own as W didn't have as many hols as me, obvs. The buildrs had tiled the floors in all but one room where I fitted a wodden floor, and all the plumbing was just bare ended pipes sticking out of the floor.

They made a massive boo-boo in the upstairs bathroom where they expected us to fit a shower on a "plinth" 6 inches off the floor, tiled like the rest of the room. with a wife with a paralysed left foot and a cage in her back that was never going to happen. Fitted out the downstairs bathroom, planned out the big upstairs one, our own, tiled half of it floor to ceiling inserted all the fittings for the two mirrors and basins and fitted the bog, Left the tiling on those two walls until I'd done the shower. But destroying the plinth turned out to be a pig of a job especially as we didn't want to damage the surrounding tiles. The concrete part of it was made of turned out to be brownish in colour and just didn't behave like normal concrete. Due to a back problem I cannot work for long at floor level and I just couldn't get the job done. I also did my lungs no good by using a big cutting disc on it and forgetting to put a mask on as it was "just going to be quick". Eventually our new son-in-law came over here for a holiday with the fam,ily and in a Saturday morning he got rid of most of it, but what with one thing an another it is still unfinished, 16 years later! and the "workroom" which is supposed to eventually be a study type place, is still undecorated as that is where we keep all tools. materials and a sort of workbench! and our only excuse is that we have another place in the UK and can only come over here for 6 months a year! We do know of other couples who have 3 places, but we are mad enough as it is without adding that into the mix!

so good on you!:):):)
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Sounds like you have had a similar experience to us although I venture we've done more of the work ourselves and overall started longer ago, not trying to out-do you but explain why I said I'm going mad (think Father Dougal sitting in the caravan, I think that's where he said it). We've managed to wear out three cement mixers since 1999 and accumulate loads of wheelbarrows in various states if decrepitude, generators, scaffolding, buckets, ever greater numbers of angle grinders which have bitten the dust etc.

Having said that, repairs to handles etc on said wheelbarrows and cement mixers has been useful welding practice prior to diving in on Land Rover repairs. So far only progressed to making up some frames for cast iron drain covers but eventually there will be time for Landy work.

Back to building work some of the less than ideal work carried out by builders has been frustrating, similar things to those which have been mentioned, off-centre things like windows, insisting all lintels are the same height then making the doors lower - looks odd but I can't be bothered to change it. Other worrying things like when we got some help in and I caught someone glueing pipes applying the glue with a stick because his pot of glue had no brush. It's probably OK but not ideal and I wasn't too happy at the time, leaking drain pipes can be a much more serious problem than it may sound on the surface.

Like you I've got jobs I meant to finish which then spent years on the back burner and a workshop which sounds very much like yours.

Sorry to hear of your wife's health problems/injuries, it must be tough, especially for her.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
To me this is an outright con. Has no doctor stated that she is not of sound enough mind to manage her finances, or much else? :mad:

Reminds me so much of how W's brother conned his mother into a writing a new will directly opposite to the old one, cutting everyone out except him. The one who did very little to help his mother other than persuading her to sell her house and move into a series of ever worse retirement "homes". He never visited her, when W went to see he wasn't in the visitors book, the old woman had none of her own clothes, no valuables, no underwear that fitted her, (W went to Tesco and bought her a pile of underwear and other stuff from charity shops to make up outfits for her. both she and dottir sat down and marked all of them up with her name to try to reduce theft. The home tried to get hold of said brother on the phone, he refused to answer. ) No wonder she had constant water infections. :mad:

She had no idea who W was, she was convinced that dottir was W. Yet some barstaff solicitor allowed a change of will. So he got what was left of the estate, nothing to anyone else. :mad:

Still he appears to be separated/divorced now, maybe some karma happened. :vb-banana::vb-banana::vb-banana:
Maybe he will be/was forced to give up half of his ill-gotten gains to his wife and daughter. Flipping hope so.
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I would question any lawyer/solicitor who allowed the change of will to be done under those circumstances.
 
landowner said:
Decided to renew insurance on my Yeti as I can't sell it.
Quoted over 1100 quid ffs.
Been shopping around, NFU only do rural postcodes, Admiral came in at £800+, AA was £1030, USwitch £880 , and best so far is compare the market at £655 but no Euro cover.
Try again tomorrow 🤔 :rolleyes:
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Insurance has gone up a lot. Tax too, I was looking at tax for the Laguna the other day and it's 340 sovs! Gone up 70 quid in three years.

I suppose its because its 2 litre and old, they want cars like that off the road.
 
marjon said:
The present wood is for a ceiling so is only thin but has been stored dry, in the same environment as its going to be fitted.
As I said to M if we stored it where it is to be fitted I wouldn't be able to fit it (space). We are far from needing the floor, but sometimes my opinion (the guy doing the work) doesn't count:rolleyes:. So I have to jump on a n other job for love🤗 as you do.

Then I can get on with the other jobs at the top of the list.

But in defense of Ms "we need it now" We have often found here that we see something and agree that is what we need, 2months later shop or product has gone. The Hall is wood floor (was to continue into the east wing) but the woodyard don't do it anymore. So sometimes I can see the sense in stocking jobs when they have what you want.

J
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Same here, its hard to get the same thing twice, a nightmare when matching is important. Materials being stocked is the inevitable result, we've been tripping over a lot of stuff for ages while things progress.
 
Stone56 said:
Same as us no to the door delivery no post at all have to collect from the post office
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Sounds very similar. Post with the house address will go to the village post office because 'it doesn't exist' and it just sits on a shelf until it gets returned 2 weeks later. Often mixed up too, I've ended up sorting through loads of people's letters to check in the past.

So we don't bother with that and have a proper PO box on the coast.

The only mains service we have is electricity although there is a mobile signal, everything else is DIY. Internet by satellite, phone via Skype, bottled gas, chop our own trees for firewood etc.
 
6pot said:
I would question any lawyer/solicitor who allowed the change of will to be done under those circumstances.
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We did try, flipping waste of time and it was all a "fait accompli" by the time we got a copy of the will. etc. It isn't the money that bothers us particularly just the princip[al of the thing. Trying to fight bent solicitors as an ornery Joe is a hiding to nothing. Especially without a doctors "note" :(
 
6pot said:
Sounds very similar. Post with the house address will go to the village post office because 'it doesn't exist' and it just sits on a shelf until it gets returned 2 weeks later. Often mixed up too, I've ended up sorting through loads of people's letters to check in the past.

So we don't bother with that and have a proper PO box on the coast.

The only mains service we have is electricity although there is a mobile signal, everything else is DIY. Internet by satellite, phone via Skype, bottled gas, chop our own trees for firewood etc.
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What do you do for water?
 
Stanleysteamer said:
What do you do for water?
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A well and deliveries by lorry.

The well will be lost when we sell the old house. At new house I had the tank put on the highest part of the land so at least its good on gravity now, pumping is a nuisance as surprisingly expensive.

So then it will be lorries only. They are 10000 L and I specified a tank of 12000 L so that we don't have to have run out completely to accept a new load, a water meter makes monitoring it easier than having to keep opening it and guessing.

Town water might be possible via a convoluted method which I think I might only go on about if it proves viable but we are above the level of any town reservoirs. It might prove better or even cheaper to get another borehole provided it's not too deep - we used to get water coming out of the side of a hill after heavy rain but we haven't had sustained rain like that for 10 years.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Too right. It is as if they want to go out of their way to ensure that they never have it in exactly the same shape. size, style as before. Or even at all. Especially in July/August.
When I finally got around to fitting the wooden floor in the bedroom I discovered that my son -in-law the builder, with whom I was buying it, in the UK, as he was buying absolute shedloads for the big house he was building, (so I got trade price) , had undermeasured it by precisely one plank and no, I didn't have too much waste as there wasn't any. He had shown me how to lay it.

So, got back to the UK and he told me where he'd got it from, (I didn't even know that) and I went off to buy some more, it made sense to carry on the wooden flooring into the walk in wardrobe anyway.
So I bought a load and when I arrived back in Frog land discovered that it was just a teeny weeny bit thicker. So it is fitted, and it's in and looks lovely, and feels lovely underfoot. But I still know exactly where the join is and can't help feeling for it with my foot from time to time!

When it came to the decking, and I thought I'd be forced to buy more, I hunted around and the only place that did exactly the same style and thickness was Toulouse. 1 1/2 hours away!

I find that W "asks" me to do about 4 or 5 jobs then gets upset when I do them. Usually because I am doing them in the "wrong" order. Until I explain that I can't do this until that is done and the reasoning behind. :rolleyes:
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Bloody women 🫢🤣



I fear my glass of wine has hit too quickly
 
marjon said:
The present wood is for a ceiling so is only thin but has been stored dry, in the same environment as its going to be fitted.
As I said to M if we stored it where it is to be fitted I wouldn't be able to fit it (space). We are far from needing the floor, but sometimes my opinion (the guy doing the work) doesn't count:rolleyes:. So I have to jump on a n other job for love🤗 as you do.

Then I can get on with the other jobs at the top of the list.

But in defense of Ms "we need it now" We have often found here that we see something and agree that is what we need, 2months later shop or product has gone. The Hall is wood floor (was to continue into the east wing) but the woodyard don't do it anymore. So sometimes I can see the sense in stocking jobs when they have what you want.

J
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That's amazing we have the same problems if you see it and like it and don't buy it it will not be there next time if we do buy I always get extra as it won't be there if you need more to finish the job 😬😬😬
 
6pot said:
Sounds like you have had a similar experience to us although I venture we've done more of the work ourselves and overall started longer ago, not trying to out-do you but explain why I said I'm going mad (think Father Dougal sitting in the caravan, I think that's where he said it). We've managed to wear out three cement mixers since 1999 and accumulate loads of wheelbarrows in various states if decrepitude, generators, scaffolding, buckets, ever greater numbers of angle grinders which have bitten the dust etc.

Having said that, repairs to handles etc on said wheelbarrows and cement mixers has been useful welding practice prior to diving in on Land Rover repairs. So far only progressed to making up some frames for cast iron drain covers but eventually there will be time for Landy work.

Back to building work some of the less than ideal work carried out by builders has been frustrating, similar things to those which have been mentioned, off-centre things like windows, insisting all lintels are the same height then making the doors lower - looks odd but I can't be bothered to change it. Other worrying things like when we got some help in and I caught someone glueing pipes applying the glue with a stick because his pot of glue had no brush. It's probably OK but not ideal and I wasn't too happy at the time, leaking drain pipes can be a much more serious problem than it may sound on the surface.

Like you I've got jobs I meant to finish which then spent years on the back burner and a workshop which sounds very much like yours.

Sorry to hear of your wife's health problems/injuries, it must be tough, especially for her.
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I think you are the twin I never new I had my epitaph reads just the same 😣😣😣
 
6pot said:
Sounds very similar. Post with the house address will go to the village post office because 'it doesn't exist' and it just sits on a shelf until it gets returned 2 weeks later. Often mixed up too, I've ended up sorting through loads of people's letters to check in the past.

So we don't bother with that and have a proper PO box on the coast.

The only mains service we have is electricity although there is a mobile signal, everything else is DIY. Internet by satellite, phone via Skype, bottled gas, chop our own trees for firewood etc.
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We have no service at all we is completely self surfichen no bill's only cost is the defenderthat is a must in a bad winter 🚜🚜
 
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