What lies beneath
Early this morning, while discussing covering the floors, Mr Schwalfenberg also said we’d need to shore up the upstairs floor. Looks like some of the supports were cut when the central heating was installed.
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That’s the way to do it!
It looks like our decision yesterday to stop sanding the walls was the right one: some of the dust had escaped upstairs and already settled on the newly oiled floor. Stopped in the nick of time, repaired and covered up properly. I can’t remember the correct name of the
29 November, 2021 19:47
Kellerkinder Als wir 1972 in die Waldlehne einzogen, waren meine Schwestern und ich 4, 6 und 7 Jahre alt. Wo also, haben sich meine Eltern gefragt, kann die Rasselbande spielen, ohne zu stören, etwas schmutzig zu machen oder sonstwie zu nerven? Ganz genau!!! Im hinteren, letzten Kellerzimmer. Direkt neben der
One more thing
You know how happy we were with the tiled bathroom? Well, yesterday morning when I arrived at the house, I found out things were not quite perfect. The tiles have been laid as planned and look great. Ivan has even managed to get the all the geometry right. However, in
A woman’s work is never done!
On top of everything else we had to demolish disassemble the wall unit in the play room in the cellar. It used to be in Astrid’s dad’s office and was a real beast. I got to use the screwdriver and stuff and Astrid did much of the carrying…
Elefantenhaut
Da auch der Fliesenspiegel in der Küche nicht mehr angebracht werden kann, habe ich heute die Wand mit einer Schutzschicht überzogen, die vor Wasser und Fett schützt. Dann kann der Chef de la Cuisine mach Belieben Kleckern. Das Ganze sieht gar nicht so schlecht aus und passt farblich zu den
Provisorien
Die Zeit fordert von uns und besonders von Charlie Entscheidungen, die sicherlich ohne den enormen Druck anders ausgefallen wären. Wichtig ist, dass wir in zwei Wochen halbwegs glimpflich in den Sengelsweg einziehen können, dass eine Küche da ist und ein funktionierendes Badezimmer. Um die Heizung brauchen wir uns auch keine
28 November, 2021 16:50
HRH Astrid at work
28 November, 2021 16:49
Now that the walls have been plastered they have to be sanded smooth and the resultant dust is incredibly fine and likely to ruin any standard vacuum cleaner but the Dyson did a great job at picking it up. It did stop working for a bit but that was probably
Mr. Postman
The cellar
With the kitchen being so small, we’re going to need somewhere to store all the stuff you tend to keep in the kitchen, even though you hardly ever use it. The cellar traditionally had a pantry under the living room and we’ll be using at least part of
Men At Work
In the background that’s our new water softener. The water is very hard so, not only do you need a water filter in order to make tea, but you see also need all kinds of water softeners to stop everything calcifying.