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Cloo said:
We have a hardware hire place just down the road, so I am considering seeing if we should hire a hardcore hoover (i think it's a thing) for this.
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Before I moved in to my house I pulled the old lathe and plaster ceiling down before it fell down. After cleaning as much up as possible I tried to hover the fine dust up but it kept clogging the hoover bag after only a few seconds. So I opened the tilt and turn window, opened the front of the hoover and removed the bag and ran the hoover over the floor blowing all the dust out of the window. :eek: Had a fire engine pull up outside wondering what was going on. :D
 
WouldBe said:
Before I moved in to my house I pulled the old lathe and plaster ceiling down before it fell down. After cleaning as much up as possible I tried to hover the fine dust up but it kept clogging the hoover bag after only a few seconds. So I opened the tilt and turn window, opened the front of the hoover and removed the bag and ran the hoover over the floor blowing all the dust out of the window. :eek: Had a fire engine pull up outside wondering what was going on. :D
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I've worked on projects that because they are charity funded, no-one is going to provide an industrial vacuum cleaner, so the worst of it is dealt with by brooms and dustpan and brush and human effort. (Not sure how it works out more economical to have 2 painter/decorators and 2 carpenters spending a couple of hours on cleanup every day than to buy an industrial wet/dry vacuum, but there you go - a certain amount would still need to be done by hand mind you - also try getting 10 teenagers to help dust off and sweep up at the end of the day, everyone likes doing the painting, but there is a serious lack of motivation when it comes to surface prep or clean up!)
 
IMG_0991.jpgIMG_0990.jpgFor niche fans of new roof pictures , with added bonus for fans of new velux windows. Relieved it is all done , and that water ingress is now history. I now have a collection of redundant buckets in the loft.

If there are London folk in need of a new roof , happy to recommend these folk.
 
marty21 said:
That will be joyous to leave it at the dump :D
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It will be, I also realised it'll be good to properly clear are around fireplace before tiler comes on Monday - I picked up new tiles for it today (kudos to Topps for easy and efficient click and collect I must say). He'll be actually tiling over existing ones, so I should probably give them a clean tomorrow.
 
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teuchter said:
I don't think they are "out of fashion" yet; they still seem very popular; it's just that they might look dated in 10 years because so many people are putting them into buildings where they don't necessarily fit with the style or history of the host building. They might become the avocado bathroom suite of the future. Nonetheless they can still look good in many situations.

I don't much like that Met-therm website because it refuses to give me any technical details about what they actually are. No drawings showing me the exact dimensions of the framing system. A single, vague and mostly useless U-value number. They even seem to avoid stating what the windows are made of. I think they are probably aluminium.

Of course if you already have some of them then you know what you will be getting so if you like them, and are not bothered about things like thermal performance, maybe it would make sense.
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Instead of 3k these people have come back with a quote of £3,960. For a door, a wide one admittedly but still that seems bonkers. They're not even lovely doors, just doors. Pretty disheartening, i do need to sort it out, one feeble kick and the one i've got would just crumble into soggy dust.
 
mauvais said:
Show us a picture of it now.
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its a lot worse than it looks, the rottenness (paint is doing a lot of work) and doesnt shut properly. I don't actually like the tinted glass stuf
tbh and would choose just maximum light. Its not properly old, the mock victorian style door.
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i could bodge it, get somebody to sort the lock out (i dont have a key for this door which means it doesn't lock at all which is pretty stupid) and screw wooden panels to reinforce the worst bit, but would really rather have a door, its just i can think of 3,960 better things to do with the money.
 
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Hmm, they're a little bit bigger than our French door pair aren't they but not much. I'll look up the unit cost for ours in a bit although I won't be able to tell you the fitting cost, that was just one lump sum.

Right our whole thing is supposedly 170cm wide and it was meant to be £2300 + VAT. We actually paid a bit less. However the total cost for fitting all the doors and windows was a shade over £2k so I can see how it would easily reach your quote.
 
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thank you.
Ooh maybe they could make it and send it down here, for a local fitter to fit. Cant find anybody local apart from really naff chunky pvc.
 
Scaffolding is coming down tomorrow I think (and hope) have paid my share of the roof costs to the roofer (£12k #ouch) hopefully downstairs has as well.

Painting the front will continue until next week. After that (and paying the painter dude) I'll take a rest from home improvement for a bit :hmm:. Having folk around all the time is tiring tbh.
 
The bizarre thing is that on our terrace of 6 houses, half of us have been redecorating our front room in the last week. End of the row seems to be stripping it down completely, even taking out woodwork, neighbours 2 doors down have knocked their front room into their new kitchen and we're totally redecorating.
 
Cloo said:
The bizarre thing is that on our terrace of 6 houses, half of us have been redecorating our front room in the last week. End of the row seems to be stripping it down completely, even taking out woodwork, neighbours 2 doors down have knocked their front room into their new kitchen and we're totally redecorating.
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People have had a year to contemplate the insides of their homes in some depth.
 
Yep. I am convinced that the amazing amount of people moving house is more due to lockdown than anything about stamp duty. If you can't move, change everything, if you can't do that, move the furniture around / get a divorce.
 
i find this sort of thing very difficult (the prospect of 4k for a door). It's probably a childish notion that when you spend lots of money it should bring some joy, or pleasure, not just solve a problem. In my defence i did get the flat roof fixed last year, because non-leaking roofs are a sort of pleasure.
 
bimble said:
i find this sort of thing very difficult (the prospect of 4k for a door). It's probably a childish notion that when you spend lots of money it should bring some joy, or pleasure, not just solve a problem. In my defence i did get the flat roof fixed last year, because non-leaking roofs are a sort of pleasure.
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Non-leaking roofs are indeed pleasurable, after several years of squeezing through access panels into the roof void to move various buckets , I now laugh at precipitation.

I'm hoping that at my age , the days of crawling around the roof void, are over.
 
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