h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Right,

At this precise moment in time I have no floor!

Well, when I say no floor I mean that there is a sub floor and the rest of it is sitting in the garden waiting for me to lay it.

For various reasons I decided to dig out the floor that was there, the main one being that it didn't have a damp course under it. While it was out I thought it was a good idea to put in under floor heating (causing a delay in work so I could source what I needed)of which the heating kit is in the garage and the insulation is sitting in the garden. While I was at it I also thought it would be a good idea to remove an unused chimney breast which I thought wouldn't be too technicaly challenging as it didn't support the main stack.
This caused yet another delay as I had to get the council building reg's people in to get the go-ahead. The chimney breast was removed without too much fuss but with a lot of toil and even more sweat. I do not reccomend working in your loft in the middle of summer with a light that gives off so much heat that it burns you every time you go near it. The temperature difference between the loft and the rest of the house must have been at least 10 degrees celsius hotter and it must have been nearly 30 outside.
So far what with digging out the floor and removing the chimney and some render I am on my fourth 8 yard skip and have plenty of useable bricks stacked up in the garden but I'm trying not to think of something to use them for at this time.
Hopefully this weekend I'll make good the walls and floor/ceilings where the chimney breast used to be get the building reg's man back to sign it off (sometime next week)and then I might even get around to putting a ground floor floor in, sometime this year, maybe.

Then I might even be able to put some stairs in (it's hard work using a ladder all the time)

The moral of this story folks, is when you start a job don't go having ideas half way through 'cause they only cause delays!

Have to admit, I only read the first few sentences of that before the crushing banality of DIY got me! I put some shelves up the other night and that's about the limit of my attention span!

It can be pretty oppressive at times.

I can see some light at the end of the tunnel (even if it is only a glimmer)so it hasn't broken me



yet.

You're mad bed! Why ever didn't you buy a house that needed no work?

I thought I did