What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12

[pseudonym]

Surprised they didn't tell you off you should get out call 999 and stay out...

Nobody at the Fire Station, they're out handing out pamphlets

Did it after our bedroom fire half the street got pamphlets

Ironically I used it to light my wood burner

[Yorkshire Andy]

Nobody at the Fire Station, they're out handing out pamphlets

Did it after our bedroom fire half the street got pamphlets

Ironically I used it to light my wood burner

Reminds me of a old gentleman me and my dad knew used to grab 2 Argos catalogues when ever he was in town to get his coal fire going

[pseudonym]

Reminds me of a old gentleman me and my dad knew used to grab 2 Argos catalogues when ever he was in town to get his coal fire going

I normally use TV Licencing reminders

[pseudonym]

Another tip from Yorkshire Andy on great Solar Panel prices:

https://www.cityplumbing.co.uk/p/longi- ... m/p/836339

Four arriving tomorrow.

Just using the dremmel powered by a E240 jackery to increase the hole size in a ventilation brick to fit the cables through:

[Frnc]

Not exactly prepping, bit of decorating. Got to keep the house in decent shape, especially with having lodgers. So I am getting the hall stairs and landing done.

Had a plasterer round. Patched up where leak was in my bedroom ceiling. The artex or whatever had come off. It looks almost invisible already, and it's not even fully dry. He did it in white, and the ceiling's painted in white (actually a very pale cream, almost white).

And he skimmed where the loft hatch used to be. He suggested putting a slight texture in it so it blended in better with the wall paper.

Forked out a grand for a bit of carpet for the stairs and landing. Gulp. Decided to get a runner on the stairs, so have to pay the decorator an unknown extra amount paint the sides of the stairs. Woke up this morning with visions of bare wood stairs, or worse, possibly waxed, and a massive extra cost to get them white. So I pulled a bit of carpet up and thank god they were painted in the past! Paint will be ancient, but hopefully can just give it a light sand and paint over it.

Also booked a dental checkup.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Another tip from Yorkshire Andy on great Solar Panel prices:

https://www.cityplumbing.co.uk/p/longi- ... m/p/836339

Four arriving tomorrow.

Just using the dremmel powered by a E240 jackery to increase the hole size in a ventilation brick to fit the cables through:

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As lil and jenny tell Me I'm an enabler

[ForgeCorvus]

Not exactly prepping, bit of decorating. Got to keep the house in decent shape, especially with having lodgers. So I am getting the hall stairs and landing done.

Had a plasterer round. Patched up where leak was in my bedroom ceiling. The artex or whatever had come off. It looks almost invisible already, and it's not even fully dry. He did it in white, and the ceiling's painted in white (actually a very pale cream, almost white).

And he skimmed where the loft hatch used to be. He suggested putting a slight texture in it so it blended in better with the wall paper.

Forked out a grand for a bit of carpet for the stairs and landing. Gulp. Decided to get a runner on the stairs, so have to pay the decorator an unknown extra amount paint the sides of the stairs. Woke up this morning with visions of bare wood stairs, or worse, possibly waxed, and a massive extra cost to get them white. So I pulled a bit of carpet up and thank god they were painted in the past! Paint will be ancient, but hopefully can just give it a light sand and paint over it.

Also booked a dental checkup.

If you're going for a runner, get it two stairs depth longer then you need.
Fold that bit up the front of the bottom step and in a few years time when its getting worn, you can unfold it and move everything up to refresh your carpet.

[pseudonym]

If you're going for a runner, get it two stairs depth longer then you need.
Fold that bit up the front of the bottom step and in a few years time when its getting worn, you can unfold it and move everything up to refresh your carpet.

Great tip.

[Frnc]

Not exactly prepping, bit of decorating. Got to keep the house in decent shape, especially with having lodgers. So I am getting the hall stairs and landing done.

Had a plasterer round. Patched up where leak was in my bedroom ceiling. The artex or whatever had come off. It looks almost invisible already, and it's not even fully dry. He did it in white, and the ceiling's painted in white (actually a very pale cream, almost white).

And he skimmed where the loft hatch used to be. He suggested putting a slight texture in it so it blended in better with the wall paper.

Forked out a grand for a bit of carpet for the stairs and landing. Gulp. Decided to get a runner on the stairs, so have to pay the decorator an unknown extra amount paint the sides of the stairs. Woke up this morning with visions of bare wood stairs, or worse, possibly waxed, and a massive extra cost to get them white. So I pulled a bit of carpet up and thank god they were painted in the past! Paint will be ancient, but hopefully can just give it a light sand and paint over it.

Also booked a dental checkup.

If you're going for a runner, get it two stairs depth longer then you need.
Fold that bit up the front of the bottom step and in a few years time when its getting worn, you can unfold it and move everything up to refresh your carpet.

Good idea, but it's been ordered and paid for. I'm gonna enforce a strict no shoes rule, and it is wool (100% I think), and described on the manufacturers' website as "extremely hard-wearing", so should last a long time. If there's enough length, I might suggest it to them though.

I've just been planning a bit of a de-clutter, to get some of the junk I've been hoarding on the landing, which is/was an eysore, and would spoil the look. Put a couple of things for free on gumtree, so should go quick.

[Frnc]

That's one drawback with prepping though, I think it has the tendency to encourage the hoarder in me! And I'm a bit fed up with having to look at clutter.

I have accumulated on the end of the landing:

1 wardrobe, full of clothes I never wear and several rucksacks.
Box of 48 bog rolls
Half full box of bog rolls
Old dining chair (now on Gumtree, along with an old dehumidifier that's in the prep room. Prep room in now chocca with most of the stuff on this list)
Laundry basket (used regularly)
About 5 boxes of shoes
Bulky metal fire escape ladder that might not even work with new windows. Need to check mine as well. I think the idea was to break the glass, but it's not that easy, and the new windows stay open so it's easy to climb out. So I might get different ladders. I have one that's not metal, and it's much more compact.
Old self inflating camping mattress. Bulky.
Large piece of old carpet.
About 5 rucksacks, one containing a sleeping bag
Holdall full of old clothes
Camping bag full of cooler thingies
Two electric radiators
Vac and accessories.
Dehumidifier
Fire extinguisher
Old original painting, pretty nice, in hideous huge wooden frame. This was not on the wall.
Floor cleaning thing (mop?)
Spare 4 ft length of bathroom windowsill! Wondered where that was, not that I've needed it.
Some of the above was in the wardrobe, some on top, some down the sides, some on the other side of the landing. Yes, it probably looked horrible.

Downstairs, I had a revelation just buying a cheap shoe rack from Argos. Holds about 12 pairs. Fits under the coat rack. Hall looks so much better.