Carpets, revision and other boring things
Oct. 2nd, 2004 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayThings I have learnt today:
- The company that built our house 35+ years ago were corner-cutting louses
- There is, in fact, a broken riser that was fixed by stuffing carpet down the hole and hoping no one would notice. Amazingly it worked because we only found it when taking up the stair carpets.
- Who needs solid flooring? Use small off-cuts of chip-board rather than planks and nobody will know until later.
- There are several two inch holes in the chip-board off-cuts on the upper floor.
- The patch upstairs where your foot sinks and we've learnt to automatically avoid? That would be because the teeny patch of chip-board is held to a rafter with one nail and a lot of hope. It sinks because the non-rafter end is attached to thin air. Whoo.
- I don't want to walk upstairs ever again.
- It is obviously a good idea to use carpet tape, nails and staples to be really sure the carpet stays attached to the stairs. Who cares if nobody can take it up again?
- Carpets should not be left for more than 30 years because the rubber backing will disintegrate into a fine black power. Or just weld itself to the wonky chip-boards.
- When tiling the ground floor prior to putting the carpets down, don't worry if you don't have enough tiles. Just leave a few bare patches.
The cat is completely confused and tracking little black footprints through the clean carpets that we're keeping. Just wait until the carpet-fitters arrive...
I ask this every autumn, but...why do I take exams? Would it really be so bad to flunk my degree? And why is revision so much duller than learning this stuff six months ago?
I want to read fanfic. Or code up recs. Or write. Instead I'm avoiding revision by LJ-ing pointlessly. And developing miner's lung from the black dust in the air *sigh*
- The company that built our house 35+ years ago were corner-cutting louses
- There is, in fact, a broken riser that was fixed by stuffing carpet down the hole and hoping no one would notice. Amazingly it worked because we only found it when taking up the stair carpets.
- Who needs solid flooring? Use small off-cuts of chip-board rather than planks and nobody will know until later.
- There are several two inch holes in the chip-board off-cuts on the upper floor.
- The patch upstairs where your foot sinks and we've learnt to automatically avoid? That would be because the teeny patch of chip-board is held to a rafter with one nail and a lot of hope. It sinks because the non-rafter end is attached to thin air. Whoo.
- I don't want to walk upstairs ever again.
- It is obviously a good idea to use carpet tape, nails and staples to be really sure the carpet stays attached to the stairs. Who cares if nobody can take it up again?
- Carpets should not be left for more than 30 years because the rubber backing will disintegrate into a fine black power. Or just weld itself to the wonky chip-boards.
- When tiling the ground floor prior to putting the carpets down, don't worry if you don't have enough tiles. Just leave a few bare patches.
The cat is completely confused and tracking little black footprints through the clean carpets that we're keeping. Just wait until the carpet-fitters arrive...
I ask this every autumn, but...why do I take exams? Would it really be so bad to flunk my degree? And why is revision so much duller than learning this stuff six months ago?
I want to read fanfic. Or code up recs. Or write. Instead I'm avoiding revision by LJ-ing pointlessly. And developing miner's lung from the black dust in the air *sigh*
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Date: 2004-10-02 10:48 pm (UTC)First, take the exam.
:p~~~~~~~~~~~
Terry has the same exam time and exam hall for one of her exams. I need to show how her to find it (new town, new exam hall) so she'll be doing the annual "Frog-march Sel into the exam hall" trick. Guh.
the mind is a smutfarm this morning *gg*
*snigger* Just this morning?
It's SO aggravating (and scary) to find that your home is the result of slipshod construction and half-assed finishing. Grrrrrrr.
Grrrr. Yeah. We've been doing a lot of work on the house over the past few years and our opinions of the construction goes down every time. Although these carpets have been the worst. We're all tip-toeing around the upper floor now that we know what we're walking on. We've been automatically stepping over certain particularly loud creaks and the sinky patch for years - looks like we'll need to learn a few more points to step over.
when an earthquake strikes
Heh, not exactly a worry here :-) Although I am at the nexus of a number of RAF bases and Allied Strike Command, so the good news is that I'll be one of the first to be vapourised in World War Three. Comforting, huh?
Cats are our reminders to lighten up.
Too true :-)) The cat is feeling a little worried by all the unusual noises and the fact that there are now floors with surfaces that make his claws click. He's taking defensive action - sleeping behind the TV. He snores. Loudly. It's slightly disturbing when the TV appears to be snoring...