In Praise Of The Craftsman

[Spymaster]

Mrs Spy and me live in faded old 1920s block that's convenient to central London but means we've had 2 inch gaps between our floors, skirting boards, and other stuff that should be square, since we bought the gaff in 1999. We are having the place re-floored at the moment, which actually means that these blokes are levelling out the fucking floors. As far as I can understand, we're paying to make our floor flat.

I work from home 2 or 3 days a week and floor-flattening is really noisy.

THEN ... we have to move into the spare bedroom.

Surely there's someone I can blame for this

 

[Treacle Toes]

I praise your craftsmen...I imagine you are very moany and blamey if you get going.

 

[Pickman's model]

i blame the government

 

[kittyP]

We live in an attic conversion of an old Victorian terrace house.
Our floors are in no way level.
If you open the fridge door with out the right degree of delicacy things come flying out, cupboard doors won't stay shut, liquid in casseroles all ends up on one side of the dish and if I were want to keep marbles on the floor then they would all be on one corner of the room.

 

[fishfinger]

Mrs Spy and me live in faded old 1920s block (main, with east and west wings) that's convenient to central London but means we've had 2 inch gaps between our floors, skirting boards, and other stuff that should be square, since we bought this gaff in 1999. We are having the place re-floored at the moment, which actually means that these blokes are levelling out the fucking floors. As far as I can understand, we're paying quite a lot of money to make our floor flat.

I work from home 2 or 3 days a week and floor-flattening is really noisy.

THEN ... we have to move into the spare bedroom.

Surely there's someone I can blame for this

Blame yourself, and your flat floor fastidiousness!

 

[Voley]

Place I live in gets a mention in The Domesday Book. As far as I can tell they hadn't invented right angles back then.

 

[Pickman's model]

Mrs Spy and me live in faded old 1920s block (main, with east and west wings) that's convenient to central London but means we've had 2 inch gaps between our floors, skirting boards, and other stuff that should be square, since we bought this gaff in 1999. We are having the place re-floored at the moment, which actually means that these blokes are levelling out the fucking floors. As far as I can understand, we're paying quite a lot of money to make our floor flat.

I work from home 2 or 3 days a week and floor-flattening is really noisy.

THEN ... we have to move into the spare bedroom.

Surely there's someone I can blame for this

how did you make your floor shrink?

 

[fishfinger]

Place I live in gets a mention in The Domesday Book. As far as I can tell they hadn't invented right angles back then.

I think you'll find the Egyptians managed it easily enough

 

[sealion]

Blame it on the boogie.

 

[Voley]

I think you'll find the Egyptians managed it easily enough

Not too many of them knocking around in St Buryan in 1086 going by the way my floor slopes. In fairness, our place was only a cattle shed once (and built/converted several hundred years after then) but the farmhouse dates from then and how the staircase has remained vertical all these years is beyond me.

ETA: Here it is.

Domesday Book Record

No mention of shit floors, I note.

This bit hasn't changed much:

"Households: 1 villager. 5 smallholders. 3 slaves."

 

[Santino]

Are these Craftsmen on the square?

 

[StoneRoad]

I don't know, but they weren't ones on the level ...

 

[JimW]

Not too many of them knocking around in St Buryan in 1086 going by the way my floor slopes. In fairness, our place was only a cattle shed once (and built/converted several hundred years after then) but the farmhouse dates from then and how the staircase has remained vertical all these years is beyond me.

ETA: Here it is.

Domesday Book Record

No mention of shit floors, I note.

This bit hasn't changed much:

"Households: 1 villager. 5 smallholders. 3 slaves."

Does it read like an 11th century estate agent? "The byre is surprisingly spacious with great potential."

 

[kittyP]

flat floor fastidiousness!

Ooooh that feels nice in the mouth to say.

 

[kittyP]

how did you make your floor shrink?

Wood warps and the walls they are attached to contract and expand too

 

[Artaxerxes]

Think yourself lucky, those Unique Features and Artisanal Floors add 10 grand to your property.

 

[Rebelda]

How's the flattening noise/hangover combination working out?

 

[Spymaster]

How's the flattening noise/hangover combination working out?

Better now. It's been a tough day.