Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol 24)
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Seven thousand and one cleans a big, big carpet
for
less
than
half
a
crown
for less than half a crown
Singing old TV ads and changing the words slightly. I tell ya.
Are you putting off working on the landing floor?
Yes. And I would thoroughly recommend anyone considering taking out chipboard flooring and replacing it with floorboards thinks again. Or gets someone else to do it.
It will look nice when it's done, though.
pad58 said:
Such a busy boy at home ,anyroad at least you can get the jobs done that you've been putting off for so long.
True:
but it did need doing. Well, something needed doing to it.
Rather than taking time to lift floors carefully, plumbers and electricians seem to delight in ripping floors up irrespective of the damage. It creaked and groaned when you walked on it. You could feel it give way in places.
The key point I missed when I embarked on new floorboards was that the stud walls were built straight on top of the chipboard; floor first, stud walls second. So, adjacent to the walls I had to cut it except there is plumbing and wiring immediately beneath the floor - so I couldn't saw it. Are you familiar with "chain drilling"? I drilled through the floor with a 6mm bit with holes as close together as possible and snapped bits of floor out at the perforations I had drilled. I had a short length of 1"x1" on the drill bit to prevent me drilling through into anything.
My knees! I'm getting too old for all this.
Edited by DickyC on Saturday 30th August 09:31
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