Fun with home-owning!

[spindizzy]

Magical thinking isn't real and can't hurt me, but consider: I texted madebyjenni one Friday to say "[Tumble drier] isn't spewing water so it's better than the last time we broke it" and the next Friday our kitchen started spewing water! :| :| :|

Yeah, one of the valves under the sink spontaneously started peeling open like a bottle top and sprayed water all over the place while I flailed around trying to find the stopcock. :| According to the emergency plumber we called, someone did a bodge job for the outside tap? And then he's done a different bodge job involving a blow torch (!!!) to fix it. Everything is fine now, just: augh.

Oh, and our conservatory roof is leaking, but the contractors around here are either a) busy, b) down a fitter due to him coming off his motorbike (fitter is fine, just off work for observation), or c) don't fix rooves because if the rest of the construction isn't right, the problem comes back almost immediately. Which, when added to the rest of the problems it's had since the beginning makes it sound like it might be easier to just replace the damn thing and have done with it.

(My dog in that specific race is that it's supposed to be my crafting/office space, but I can't use it for that because of the whole rising damp, loose joists, damaged timbers... Thing. Not putting all of my fabric and yarn in a place where it's just going to go mouldy, thank you. But if we fix it, we magically free up SO MUCH FUCKING SPACE in the living room because my crafting stuff won't be there.)

And I'm going back to work next week. Uggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggh.

Everything is fine, like. The valves have been fixed, Lex reckons he can do a stop-gap fix for the leaky conservatory roof, and we're clearing it out properly so that we can get someone in to give us a quote on fixing/replacing it. I'm just very tired of phoning contractors, y'know?

Everything is fine, like. The valves have been fixed, Lex reckons he can do a stop-gap fix for the leaky conservatory roof, and we're clearing the whole conservatory out properly so that we can get someone in to give us a quote on fixing/replacing it. I'm just very tired of phoning contractors, y'know?

Comments

[lokifan]

Arrgh that sounds so tough!

[spindizzy]

If it was one of them at a time it would be easier! ^^;