Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[equationgirl]

What are you thinking of doing clicker?

 

[clicker]

equationgirl in my head I can see teal, white and gold. And I'm getting carpet again after decades of stripped back but DRAUGHTY and SPIDERY and 'good idea at the time' floorboards. They served a purpose whilst being abused with Lego, squashed Haribo and bodily fluids.

 

[equationgirl]

Yes, wooden floors can be draughty. I'm not a fan of the brown carpet in the bedrooms in my place but I've lived in places with wooden floors throughout and it's way too cold.

 

[kabbes]

We’re living with dusty post-renovation hardboard flooring in our bedroom for now until Ted the dog really learns that indoors is 100% of the time definitely NOT the place for a pee. Then we can finally get a carpet. The kabbess wanted to put down hardwood flooring but it’s the one thing I countermanded, because the sound of a dog and cat clanking around when you’re trying to sleep at 3am is horror unbounded, plus the boiler is under the bedroom and that has a tendency to fire up with a BOOM at 5am. I speak from experience of spending the last 20 years with wooden bedroom floors.

 

[teuchter]

Carpets are basically giant, dirty, shared socks spread out and stuck to the floor, that never get washed. Non-brits are baffled by them and rightly so.

 

[kabbes]

Carpets are basically giant, dirty, shared socks spread out and stuck to the floor, that never get washed. Non-brits are baffled by them and rightly so.

Non-Brits don’t tend to have central heating either

 

[Idaho]

Carpets are basically giant, dirty, shared socks spread out and stuck to the floor, that never get washed. Non-brits are baffled by them and rightly so.

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You get carpets in loads of other countries you nutter. People do tend to take shoes off before walking on them though; as all civilised people should.

 

[Manter]

I painted the top landing mustard yellow and I feel much happier every time I go upstairs

(I haven’t touched up the paintwork yet, before anyone points it out)

 

[colacubes]

Nice colour

 

[equationgirl]

Looks lovely Manter.

 

[teuchter]

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You get carpets in loads of other countries you nutter. People do tend to take shoes off before walking on them though; as all civilised people should.

It's well known that carpets are much more common in UK houses than just about every other country, specifically fitted carpets which you can't clean or shake out properly. It always comes up in the 'ten strange things about living in britain' type lists. Of course carpeted bathrooms (and pubs) usually attract particular scrutiny.

Not everyone takes off their shoes. Anyway, even if they do take off their shoes then instead of transferring whatever is on the street outside into your floor they are distributing whatever is oozing out of their sweaty and putrid feet. This is why the carpet is the equivalent of a shared, unwashed sock. It's people that nail this disgustingly impregnated substrate to their floors that are nutters, not I.

 

[moose]

Anyone used Darlings of Chelsea for furniture? Any good?

 

[equationgirl]

Two things to report:

A crack has appeared in part of the ceiling and the wall in my bedroom. The ceiling crack was there when I repainted but couldn't reach the ceiling to paint over it. The wall crack, which is above the door, I think was there and I painted over it but has reappeared. I have polyfilla so will polyfilla and repaint it. Upstairs sounds like she has elephants bowling in clogs at the best of times, god knows what she's been doing if the cracks have reappeared...

Sofas are being delivered on Wednesday, however I need to phone next to check what's being delivered as at one point their delivery system was saying 2 items not 3 ( sofa plus two chairs).

Keep your fingers crossed!

 

[Cloo]

I painted the top landing mustard yellow and I feel much happier every time I go upstairs

(I haven’t touched up the paintwork yet, before anyone points it out)

That's a really lovely colour. Hall improvement makes such an impact, I still can't get over how much brighter our hallway is since we repainted

 

[equationgirl]

Sofas are en-route. I will post pictures once they actually arrive.

 

[equationgirl]

So the lorry with my sofas on it has parked up across the road from my flat, and the delivery guys appear to be having a break. Fine, but there's a parking spot right outside the flat they could use if they wanted.

I'm just hoping they don't drive off claiming I wasn't in...

 

[equationgirl]

DHL Delivery driver refused to deliver sofas on the grounds that he'll get a ticket if he parks for too long on a double yellow. I pointed out he could park right outside the property but he refused to do so, and cancelled the delivery. He said it should have been loaded in a smaller vehicle. He admitted he knew he wouldn't be able to deliver when saw my postcode and said he'd repeatedly told DHL about this issue.

Spent half an hour on the phone to Next, who were very apologetic but said the sofas would have to go back to the warehouse to be checked back in before being rebooked for delivery. Which won't be any time this week.

As I am away for work next week, realistically it will be a fortnight before the delivery can be attempted again.

I'm furious.

 

[clicker]

I'm furious on your behalf too...what a shambles.

 

[mauvais]

Look at the bright side: eventually you will get your sofas, once the fire brigade hand them off, and they'll probably only be possessed by a small number of mid-tier demons.

 

[kabbes]

Holy fuck! Customer service this ain’t...

 

[equationgirl]

Holy fuck! Customer service this ain’t...

To be fair, the lady at Next was about as cross as me, as DHL have been repeatedly told by the drivers that small vans should be used, and they have admitted that it's flagged on their systems, but DHL are still letting stuff go out knowing it won't get delivered.

But it takes at least three days for items to get rescanned and rebooked into the warehouse, which is pretty shambolic.

I did laugh at one point, the next customer service person offered to buy me a beanbag so I had something to sit on (yeah, that doesn't work for me).

So I'm working on some agreements until lunchtime then going to do some sewing this afternoon whilst wishing karmic payback for Next and DHL, because some bright spark at Next clearly thought it was a great idea to outsource deliveries to a third party courier.

 

[planetgeli]

Sorry equationgirl mine did arrive.



(That's a mark on the camera, not the sofa, on the grey one)

Grey one came a few weeks ago, blue one this morning. No parking problems in my village.

 

[equationgirl]

They're nice looking sofas planetgeli.

(technically no parking problems for anybody else who drives on my road, just today's driver. Suspect he's had an issue and got a ticket in the past so now makes a huge point to his employer every time there's a delivery anywhere he thinks it might happen again. If DHL get a penalty fee for every missed delivery for Next, he must cost them a fortune).

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Oh ffs equationgirl ... how bloody annoying is that?

I was all set to view your sofas as I scrolled down the page on the phone...excitement was building.. then.... wtf?????

Hope they sort it for you pronto!!!!


Breathe deeply.....

 

[equationgirl]

Oh ffs equationgirl ... how bloody annoying is that?

I was all set to view your sofas as I scrolled down the page on the phone...excitement was building.. then.... wtf?????

Hope they sort it for you pronto!!!!


Breathe deeply.....

I 'm OK now but was so excited (they were texting me and sent me the tracker link so I could see where the lorry was. Then I was so pissed off when I saw them park up opposite and.... Just sit there. For 20 minutes. In the bus stop he claimed he couldn't park in.

I appreciate it was completely out of the call staff's hand, but next need to review their processes and get things sorted out, including whether outsourcing to DHL is a good idea.

I will be writing a huge letter detailing everything once the sofas are here. Probably 2020 at this rate (hollow bitter laugh).

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I 'm OK now but was so excited (they were texting me and sent me the tracker link so I could see where the lorry was. Then I was so pissed off when I saw them park up opposite and.... Just sit there. For 20 minutes. In the bus stop he claimed he couldn't park in.

I appreciate it was completely out of the call staff's hand, but next need to review their processes and get things sorted out, including whether outsourcing to DHL is a good idea.

I will be writing a huge letter detailing everything once the sofas are here. Probably 2020 at this rate (hollow bitter laugh).

Liked for the fact you are still able to laugh a little.
And do let us help with the really long letter

 

[equationgirl]

Liked for the fact you are still able to laugh a little.
And do let us help with the really long letter

It will be EPIC.

I was not laughing this morning

It was the way it felt like they were taunting me 'see these sofas you' ve waited months for, yes, these ones here, well we'll park them outside your flat because we can, stick two fingers up to you then drive off with them'.



DHL clearly give no fucks whatever their agreement with Next says, this was entirely preventable had they bothered to check the notes on the system.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

It will be EPIC.

I was not laughing this morning

It was the way it felt like they were taunting me 'see these sofas you' ve waited months for, yes, these ones here, well we'll park them outside your flat because we can, stick two fingers up to you then drive off with them'.



DHL clearly give no fucks whatever their agreement with Next says, this was entirely preventable had they bothered to check the notes on the system.

Yes..I can imagine it was infuriating knowing the sofas were there sat in the van and the parking space was there waiting..
I am hating DHL in empathy/ sympathy with you...

 

[equationgirl]

Next forgot to rebook delivery for this week. Delivery now rebooked for 9th May.

Pray for my sofas, people...

 

[kabbes]

This has the making of a Netflix series