A: Somewhere clean to sleep (camp-out style)
B: Somewhere to shower
C: Somewhere 'clean' to eat
A will be the 2nd bedroom. (gotta love the wonky door) The main bedroom needs to carpentry work and the 3rd bedroom needs a wall put back so let's start with the easiest room first.
Ripping up the carpet to remove the 'smokers smell'
- Sugar-soaping the walls and then painting the walls and ceiling Dulux Antique White USA.
- temporarily putting a tarp over the bare floorboards(6 inch pine - be still my beating heart)
- setting up the camp mattresses on the floor
B will be the bathroom (in all it's leaky glory)
- tape over leaky join where sheeting meets the bath. Someone should have told them the sheeting goes inside the lip of the bath - not behind it - hence the leak and the rotten floorboards under the bath
- hoping the hot water system works or it will be top and tail using a bucket.
- pulling up the greasy vinyl
- scrubbing the sink and cupboards (acess should be easy as one of the doors has fallen off)
- cleaning the electric stove (my sister has claimed ownership of the slow combustion stove and wants to clean and restore it by herslef - whatever floats her boat I say)
- taking our "camp kitchen" gear to use temporarily.
B has decided to take up a load of studding and a bag of tools 'just in case' he gets the chance to start putting up the nogging for the missing wall.
We have both agreed to resist the temptation to take too much gear or futniture until the internal carpentry and painting is completed and the floors have been sanded (did I mention the 6inch wide pine floorboards).
There is no mobile phone reception (yahoo!) but we will have to organise a land line for emergency use. There won't be internet either - the options are dial-up (groan) or satellite at $499 per month for a teeny allowance (not happening).
The plan is to paint the interior ceilings and walls (all VJ's) Dulux Antique White USA and the doors and windows vivid white. The plan for the exterior (after the ugly bits have been removed) is to paint the walls Deep Brunswick Green and the windows, facias and guttering white.
oh now blogger is just being annoying - why is this picture lying on its side? and what sort of tree is this? |
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