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House - to the tip!
May. 11th, 2013 02:12 pmAnne is here with the car, so we are taking the ripped-out carpet to the council tip, and then heading to Wickes (home and building supplies) for flooring stuff.
May. 11th, 2013
DW in half an hour
May. 11th, 2013 06:11 pmCould go either way - Neil Gaiman and Cybermen, yay; cutesy kid companions, fuck no!
House achievements unlocked today alone!
May. 11th, 2013 06:12 pm"Structural Upgrade" - replacement for damaged floor panels acquired.
"Clean the Lad and Lady" - new shower outlet acquired (cos, y'know, it was on offer and it's shiny chrome, and looked a bit SF-ish...)
"A Night Off the Tiles" - replacement for bath tiles acquired (lovely pacific blue vinyl with water-bubble design)
"Game of Thrones" - new toilet seat acquired
"Take your Corners" - Chrome wall-mounted corner basket thing for holding bathroom bottles above the bath acquired. (And Lesley's only getting to have as many bottles of stuff as will fit in it!)
"Footloose" - old wrecked shoes and boots got rid of
"Donation" - three bags of clothes taken to a charity shop (The Dogs Trust, if you need to know. It just happened to be closest)
"Chameleon Circuit" - TARDIS blue paint sourced (from decorating shop at the end of our road!)
"Farmhouse Kitchen" - new surfaces for kitchen units acquired: wood effect for doors and drawer fronts, and light grey marble-look for worktop surfaces (this is all self-adhesive vinyl, nicely wipeable)
"Unwelcome mat" - wrecked bristle mat flooring in hall removed and taken to the council tip.
"Taking A Dump" - carpeting and other stuff taken to the tip.
"Chemical Warfare" - Upholstery shampoo mixed and bottled, now to test it...
"Clean the Lad and Lady" - new shower outlet acquired (cos, y'know, it was on offer and it's shiny chrome, and looked a bit SF-ish...)
"A Night Off the Tiles" - replacement for bath tiles acquired (lovely pacific blue vinyl with water-bubble design)
"Game of Thrones" - new toilet seat acquired
"Take your Corners" - Chrome wall-mounted corner basket thing for holding bathroom bottles above the bath acquired. (And Lesley's only getting to have as many bottles of stuff as will fit in it!)
"Footloose" - old wrecked shoes and boots got rid of
"Donation" - three bags of clothes taken to a charity shop (The Dogs Trust, if you need to know. It just happened to be closest)
"Chameleon Circuit" - TARDIS blue paint sourced (from decorating shop at the end of our road!)
"Farmhouse Kitchen" - new surfaces for kitchen units acquired: wood effect for doors and drawer fronts, and light grey marble-look for worktop surfaces (this is all self-adhesive vinyl, nicely wipeable)
"Unwelcome mat" - wrecked bristle mat flooring in hall removed and taken to the council tip.
"Taking A Dump" - carpeting and other stuff taken to the tip.
"Chemical Warfare" - Upholstery shampoo mixed and bottled, now to test it...
House - chemical weapons of mass cleaning
May. 11th, 2013 10:00 pmHm, the home-mixed fabric/upholstery shampoo works well, but sadly the spray bottle doesn't, as I can't get a suitably fine mist out of it. However... As it turns out, thickening the mix and spreading it on with a sponge works way better anyhow. It includes a mix of soda crystals for grease-removal, some scent, and some antibacterial stuff too - clean and nice smelling.
Fuck the Rug Doctor, I'm the Rug Master!
Lesley, meanwhile, though impressed and shocked that when I said "I go from not bothered to nuke the site from orbit with no in-between", that I actually do mean the latter. I got a "fucking hel, you don't do things by halves, do you" out of her.
That said, she is perhaps less chuffed to discover than while she expected her Hand Of The Chair to be Ned Stark, she's got Tywin Lannister, who has relieved her of command, and mentioned to her "do not take my commands and statements of fact for requests or suggestions..."
(She also, having been clothes sorting tonight, wanted to have some ice cream as a treat, in the bedroom. And got told that we don't do that here. Well, actually she got told what we *do* eat in bed, but that's for a whole different thread...
Fuck the Rug Doctor, I'm the Rug Master!
Lesley, meanwhile, though impressed and shocked that when I said "I go from not bothered to nuke the site from orbit with no in-between", that I actually do mean the latter. I got a "fucking hel, you don't do things by halves, do you" out of her.
That said, she is perhaps less chuffed to discover than while she expected her Hand Of The Chair to be Ned Stark, she's got Tywin Lannister, who has relieved her of command, and mentioned to her "do not take my commands and statements of fact for requests or suggestions..."
(She also, having been clothes sorting tonight, wanted to have some ice cream as a treat, in the bedroom. And got told that we don't do that here. Well, actually she got told what we *do* eat in bed, but that's for a whole different thread...