Neph’s new house…
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Get her to call me for advice….
It is an absolute pleasure to be the one responsible for the practical side of things and removed from the finances… The choice of decor is the only contentious area and I'm trying to stay out of that too....
I should mention that the beams directly above my head (4x10" ??? )will support our dining room, and the set of beams above that will be the floor of the love cave...
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Yeah… we’re now planning a separate entrance to their dungeon. And major sound-proofing... probably still have to suffer the odour of teenage feet emanating upwards. How do they manage to get all the cleaning product and deodorant on the places where the short and curlies grow, and none of it where it matters?
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@neph93 i believe this project, at completion, deserves to be capped off with a self gift of epic proportions. Iron Heart of course!
What will it be…?
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What will it be…?
That is a nice thought mate, but I shudder to think what my mortgage will be by that time. However… I will dream along:
I believe a cordovan long wallet would be top of the list. I have the medium, Giles doesn’t stock the long, but I bet he could wangle it over from Japan. Next would be one of the leather type III’s... the IHJ-49 or IHJ-64. Probably the 64...
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I know… there are more too. They are very good at letting me know. However all the boarding is coming off and we are insulating the outside of the house, replacing all the boards in a 1940’s configuratiom, and re painting the place a much more attractive colour. So it is fine.
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I thought it probably did not matter that much…And it's an easy fix anyway....
We’ve been fortunate with global warming (jk) and the frost hadn’t set in until last week. But they now have to get under the extension, while avoiding those pillars and dig out clay that has frozen solid. They’ll be doing it by hand soon.
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@neph93 I was curious why I didn't see a frost line. Did the budget include hand digging or is that going to be an extra??
The price is for getting the job done. When that happens they’ll get paid what they quoted. How they get it done is their problem [emoji1]
Yeah, there were barely any sub zero days in November or December and lots of 2-5C days. Unheard of. The temps have dropped firmly with the new year, although we’ve only had high pressure weather so no meaningful snowfall.
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It’s ON!
New wood going in for the first time to level off the floors…
In other, less awesome news, we have discovered that the extension to the living room which was built in 1980 used a dangerously under spec steel i-beam. It needs replacing.
This in itself isn’t a problem except that it would be much easier (and not much more expensive), to rip the whole thing down and start again. However doing so would mean we would need to rebuild a simulacrum of a 1941 style extension. That would mean losing about 7 square meters of living room, the second floor bedroom balcony, and the back door out to the garden, according to the Royal Norwegian Antiquitarian (whom one does not fuck about with). Nothing is ever easy.
