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Hurray, my mattress has arrived! Have to put the bed together. I wonder if I'll need tools for that, and how complicated it's going to be. I should probably wait till I have carpets in, but I really want to sleep on a nice firm mattress in my own place!
They usually come with any necessary tools. Usually just a Allen key.
 
Painter is back in today, doing the hallways. Internet modem has arrived too, so I may be able to work from there tomorrow. Can't sleep there yet, as haven't put the bed together, and have no curtains. And the carpet smells. Supposed to be going to look at carpets later today.
 
Painter is back in today, doing the hallways. Internet modem has arrived too, so I may be able to work from there tomorrow. Can't sleep there yet, as haven't put the bed together, and have no curtains. And the carpet smells. Supposed to be going to look at carpets later today.
Can you pull the carpet up and bin it. I could never get rid of the smell of previous tenants cats until I did this no matter how well I cleaned them. Very cathartic!
 
Carpets all gone and hopefully smell with them. Carpet fitter coming tomorrow. No idea if I got a good price because yet again its the first time I'm doing something so I have nothing to compare it with.
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Old carpets are in shed thing for now..will probably end up staying there for years as won't fit in bin and have no way of getting them to the tip.
 
Carpets all gone and hopefully smell with them. Carpet fitter coming tomorrow. No idea if I got a good price because yet again its the first time I'm doing something so I have nothing to compare it with.
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Old carpets are in shed thing for now..will probably end up staying there for years as won't fit in bin and have no way of getting them to the tip.
If you could be bothered, you could cut into small pieces and get rid of bits at a time.
 
Carpets all gone and hopefully smell with them. Carpet fitter coming tomorrow. No idea if I got a good price because yet again its the first time I'm doing something so I have nothing to compare it with.
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Old carpets are in shed thing for now..will probably end up staying there for years as won't fit in bin and have no way of getting them to the tip.
Ask a mate with a car and a tip permit to help.
 
Carpets all gone and hopefully smell with them. Carpet fitter coming tomorrow. No idea if I got a good price because yet again its the first time I'm doing something so I have nothing to compare it with.
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Old carpets are in shed thing for now..will probably end up staying there for years as won't fit in bin and have no way of getting them to the tip.
Drag it into the middle of the road and set it on fire.
 
I only have one local friend with a car and need to save the favours.. Ill do the carpet in stages. Nothing else to go in shed for now as it hasn't got a lock.

Internet on tomorrow too! All I need is a curtain rod and I can actually live here soon.
 
Carpets all gone and hopefully smell with them. Carpet fitter coming tomorrow. No idea if I got a good price because yet again its the first time I'm doing something so I have nothing to compare it with.
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Old carpets are in shed thing for now..will probably end up staying there for years as won't fit in bin and have no way of getting them to the tip.
I’m still utterly perplexed that they ripped up carpets and even took curtain poles from the looks of it. At least they actually left you with a light.

you still have the battens to attach new curtain poles too. Phew.

liking the blue by the way. Was that a wilko paint? The wilko Pearl grey I used in my bedroom last week looks really good. Am toying with a light blue in the lounge. Well half the walls light blue and the other half probably a boring neutral.

I drove past my old house last week and they still have the curtains and nets up that I left so they haven’t changed those. Probably the light shades too.
 
I’m still utterly perplexed that they ripped up carpets and even took curtain poles from the looks of it. At least they actually left you with a light.

All I need is a curtain rod and I can actually live here soon.

When I've bought / sold a place, I've either been given (from seller) or (as seller) had to do a list saying just what is included in the sale, things like curtains, curtain rails and so on.

Depending on what was in the documentation you had from them, you may have a valid argument if they removed stuff that should have been included.

It may or may not be worth the effort to pursue that though...
 
It's strange, because they left the curtains downstairs, and I rather like them (long yellow ones in the living room, new white cotton ones in the kitchen), and a red blind in the bathroom. As well as all the lampshades, lights, a chest of drawers, two wooden radiator covers, and some garden stuff. And the two smelly carpets. But took up the carpets from the rest of the place, the curtains and the rods from upstairs. Very strange. Trying to locate someone with an electric drill - I already have some curtain rods from freecycle and some blackout curtains, so it's just a case of getting the rods up.

I negotiated a discount...partially based on the carpet removal. So I don't really mind paying for new ones. I'm getting soft ones with underlay - I like to sit on the carpet so should be nice. And will help the place look a lot better than it currently does. I've cleaned up as best as I can today.
 
A shed is wonderful thing to have miss direct , If not for storage then for Doing Stuff in.
If i were you i'd find out the cost of disposing of the carpet. Or your local council will probably have a bulky waste collection service you can book.
Calling it a shed is a bit optimistic. More like an outbuilding that could just about fit three bikes in. Not in my garden and only just about visible from my window (bit strange why they didn't put them opposite the corresponding home). At some point I'll get a new lock put on, so I can use it for something other than smelly old carpet storage.
 
Blackout curtains are a must if you ever work nights - that war is far from done

:)

i wasn't being entirely serious

mum-tat has got something (i can't quite remember what - may be a home made apron) that's made out of a bit of 1939-45 blackout curtain

although personally, i tended to have less difficulty sleeping after very late / night shifts than i do sleeping at the 'right' time...
 
I cant sleep past 5am in the summer without blackout curtains.

Carpet fitters are in. Im parked in the kitchen surrounded by the furniture. Annoyingly the Internet hasn't come on so I can't do any work.
 
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