Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)

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Cheers,

John.

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John Rumm wrote:
Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading
about ;-)

I might get a driveway.

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Adam

On Jan 2, 7:52 pm, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading
about ;-)

I might get a driveway.

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Adam

given your local "contractors" prowess, that would seem to be an
overstatement.....

Jim K

John Rumm wrote:


Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading
about ;-)

Clearing the back garden ...

Erecting a canopy type structure to shelter the caravan/Landrover.

Move a metal-posted, wooden fence panel, 'very old' fence back four
feet so it actually runs along our boundary fence .. which might just
mean scrapping it and getting a new one!

Re-lay part of the back garden that's currently covered with wobbly
paving slabs. Dunno if I should just remove the slabs and concrete it
thobut ..

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Paul - xxx
"You know, all I wanna do is race .. and all I wanna do is win"
Mark Cavendish, World Champion 2011
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2011

On 02/01/2012 20:21, Paul - xxx wrote:
John Rumm wrote:


Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading
about ;-)

Clearing the back garden ...

Erecting a canopy type structure to shelter the caravan/Landrover.

Move a metal-posted, wooden fence panel, 'very old' fence back four
feet so it actually runs along our boundary fence .. which might just
mean scrapping it and getting a new one!

Re-lay part of the back garden that's currently covered with wobbly
paving slabs. Dunno if I should just remove the slabs and concrete it
thobut ..


Just finishing the kitchen. Then its build a partition wall in bedroom
to create a walk-in wardrobe and then redecorate it around Feb time.
Then its de moss the roof and tidy guttering then consider painting the
exterior walls.
After that I have to resite the shed and then re slab the back garden.

For consideration if I am not p,,,ed off by then, I have 2 bathrooms to
redo and another bedroom to decorate and fit carpet. I also have a
lounge carpet to fit but may get someone in to do that.

John Rumm wrote:

Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)

oak paneling part of the bedroom, window seat and more wardrobes
featuring girly shoe storage.

In message , John
Rumm writes

Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)

Oh! The *jobs to do list*.

There's the Victorian timber barn needs a steel frame fabricating and
inserting followed by insulating and re-cladding the walls plus
re-slating the roof.

Of the two now redundant workshops.... one needs partitioning/re-roofing
to create a timber store and better toilets. The other has been
provisionally booked as a *massage parlour*. I kid you not! Apparently,
the lady who gives my wife a massage has fallen out with her landlord
and is looking for new premises. To get this project passed by the
planners I might have to indulge in a ground source heat pump system.

Putting a boiler in the log burner is still under consideration as is
putting under floor heating in the farmhouse ground floor.

Agriculturally speaking, apart from routine work, I have about a mile of
fencing to erect.

regards


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Tim Lamb

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John Rumm wrote:

Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)


I've just been informed by management that we are having a new bathroom
this year.

I'll be looking for ideas for showerscreens - curtain drives me mad and
there isn't a wall to fit a screen to easily...

Darren

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:51:35 -0000, John Rumm
wrote:


Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about
;-)


Finish decorating the hall. Did most of it just before Christmas -
"glossing" in process.

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Rod

On 02/01/12 19:51, John Rumm wrote:

Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)

This room was last decorated in 2004, having laid the wooden floor I
never got round to refitting the skirting boards. And what I think of as
the 'new sofa' is 20 years old and so bad for my back I can't sit in it.
And I now work from home full-time so I really do need make some clear
space... So I think his room will have to be redecorated. ... and the
bedroom last redecorated circa 1998, and the damp/leak from the roof ...
and the peeling paint on the windows, because the last contractors to do
the outside did a poor job... ...



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djc

On Jan 2, 7:51*pm, John Rumm wrote:
Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)

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Finding the floor of, and reorganising, the office.

Unpacking the boxes from moving in more than two years ago. (And no,
I'm not simply going to chuck 'em. Every month or so I have to dig
through the boxes to find the 'thing' packed there that has suddenly
become essential.

Sid.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

John Rumm wrote:

Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about
;-)

oak paneling part of the bedroom, window seat and more wardrobes
featuring girly shoe storage.

For your Staurday nights out?

;-

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Tim Watts

John Rumm wrote:


Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)


House: Now me and SWMBO have (apparantly) stable jobs, and might actually go
a year without changing them:

Immediate: Slap some old paving slabs down out front over a dead end bit of
the garden and stick a couple of small cheap sheds up, flat pck jobbies. One
for bikes, one for garden tools.

House:

Wire lights properly (first job, while weather is ****e).

Get roofer to retile, incorportaing 3" celotex and breathable membrane

Drop long runs of pipe in and cap off, for future CH install (to save taking
up half the floor, see next item).

Loose fit new planked floor upstairs (loose so it seasons in situ prior to
full fix down), cover with cheap heavy DPM to protect

Book a mate and strip the platerboard and final galss wool, celotex under
flat dormer roof from inside (easy), replasterboard. Remodel timber walls a
little.

Board out the 4 corner roof voids for storage with ply screwed down to spead
the load a little ove rthe 4" ceiling joists.

Fit 4 new uPVC windows to upstairs

Book plaster to skim.

Paint.

Finally, sign off on storage...


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Tim Watts

John Rumm wrote:


Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)


In planet Squidward, I would:

1) Build a gallows to hang that steaming lying ******* with the grinning
penguin for a wife, for treasonous activities.

2) Build a platform for the hanging, drawing and quartering of that scottish
******* for shafting the economy.

3) Knock up a flail for whipping the *******s at HMRC who are happy to have
me doing pointless tax returns on pain of a fine, whilst letting massive
corporations off loads of tax. *******s.

--
Tim Watts

Finish the kitchen. Tiling the floor is the last main job now, before fitting the kitchen units and completing the electrics.
Then, when the rest of the house is renovated, convert the loft.
Estimated for 2020 !
Simon.

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:51:35 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)

Front ceiling and attic space - just finishing off the rear ceiling
and attic. Then kitchen and drainage.

On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:33:04 +0000, D.M.Chapman wrote:
I'll be looking for ideas for showerscreens - curtain drives me mad and
there isn't a wall to fit a screen to easily...

I don't mind curtain, but I've been looking for *something* to do at the
shower head-end because the kids always leave a gap between curtain and
wall, and then end up flooding the place. It needs some kind of vertical
'lip', I think, so that anything that gets through the gap just runs down
and back into the drain...

On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:55:51 +0000 (UTC), Jules Richardson wrote:

I don't mind curtain, but I've been looking for *something* to do at the
shower head-end because the kids always leave a gap between curtain and
wall, and then end up flooding the place.

Education. Get them to clean up the flood and show them how to avoid
it in the first place.

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Cheers
Dave.

On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:55:51 PM UTC, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:33:04 +0000, D.M.Chapman wrote:
I'll be looking for ideas for showerscreens - curtain drives me mad and
there isn't a wall to fit a screen to easily...

I don't mind curtain, but I've been looking for *something* to do at the
shower head-end because the kids always leave a gap between curtain and
wall, and then end up flooding the place. It needs some kind of vertical
'lip', I think, so that anything that gets through the gap just runs down
and back into the drain...

Sounds like you want a ... (glass) shower screen ;-)
The short type that are somehow supposed to work on their own.
I tend to stand almost at the other end of the bath. Would need a curtain along with one of those silly little screens.
Simon.

John Rumm wrote:
Just wondering what grand schemes we can look forward to reading about ;-)

Really want to get my fence finished off and get the garden, well,
gardened.
http://pics.mdfs.net/2010/02/1002186.htm

JGH