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 10:52 pm (UTC)We've had the house for...shit...twenty-three years. Between the builders and the former owners (there are some big holes in the walls where they ripped out wall-mounted lamps and we've never worked out how to fill them in, covering them with paintings instead), this house has had some issues. It's the way that we keep finding new things.
it will never fall down'
Ah. That's a...er...helpful(?) concept.
We've had both scenarios.
Ain't they fun? We've found a patch of carpet on one stair that will not come up. We've used a paint scraper, a shovel and Da's taken all the skin off his knuckles. It's still there. Pah. Tomorrow we may have to go at it with sis's welding torch...