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Twi
Yearling
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 26/05/2010 : 16:37:28
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We're finding more and more problems as we go alone, concidering they said the house was in good condition, alot of their 'Moving in Letting Standards' have been ignored. According the the leaflet the place was supposed ot be spotless, I think I've done more cleaning that they did since I moved in lol (Don't worry I'm taking it easy!!!). Gas man came today to light the boiler for me so we would have hot water and there was a gas leak, the pipe a cooker would connect to just came off in his hands so he capped that outside to stop the leak, theres a rardiator coming off the wall in the babies room as well as a broken floor board in my room and babies room, the sink in the bathroom is blocked, half the windows are hell to open, window in back of kitchen won't budge (They said all the windows open easily and are in good condition) Theres a roof tile balancing on the gutter in the back of the house and all the ground floor sockets don't work, which they should have known before moving me in because they were supposed to have checked the electric. According to their letting standards they should have cut the over grown grass in the back garden and trimmed the hedges before letting me move in lol
Got eviction notice for this place, gotta be out of here by the 9th June so we're trying to get as much of the decorating done between my mum working so we can start moving everything in Hoping to be at a point where we're moved in by the 2nd of june and then it'll just be emptying whatevers left of this house.
The living rooms almost finished aunt came around and helped up finish the painting there on Sunday, looks rather good, they put in my new carpet on Tuesday and my mums dog was nice enough to puke on it soon as it was down, but thats been cleaned now. Just needs the back wall papering now, we gonna do that once my brother puts up my diningroom table.
When they finally get round to sending someone out about the ground floor sockets i'll be able to get brother in to sort out my lawn for me, luckily he has just got himself a new lawn mower and strimmer and is dying to use it xD
My bedroom carpet was delivered on Tuesday as well as the babies bedroom lino (so cool!) I got black carpet for my room \o/ brothers jealous his girlfriend wouldn't let him get black for their house haha. Just gotta finish painting walls in there tomorrow and wait for them to come fix the broken floor board so we can put the carpet down and start moving stuff into there (like the snakes).
It's coming along slowly, can't wait to get the main decorating done so that i can get everything in there. Anyway I have some pictures! :D
Living room:
Wallpaper thats gonna go on the wall is sat ontop of the fireplace, and prieview of my new brown skirting :)
I wasn't sure about the cream colour when I bought it, mum reasured me that it would look good once it was up and it was picked to go with the wallpaper, it was just sheer luck it also matched the patterning of the carpet and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :3
Carpet (and skeebees back lol)
Bedroom:
The walls they have quickly run over with a cream colour over what like purple luckily I'm doing the room cream and black so It's worked out rather well, seems they almost the same colour cause when I was painting around the skirting this mornign with my cream ready for painting the walls it was hard to tell where I just painted so might save us a coat of paint :) Anyway here is it pre pain with skirting done:
Wardrobe
Painted my window shelf black xD
And a couple of befores of the garden before my brother comes and hacks at it lol
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reptiledanny
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 26/05/2010 : 17:36:17
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| oh wow, it looks lovely, hope you haven't been working to hard. it looks lovely and i love the living room colours and the carpet. well done. congrats |
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Posted - 26/05/2010 : 22:04:21
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House looks perfect  am glad you got such a nice place! |
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Twi
Yearling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 26/05/2010 : 22:15:09
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| Neighbours are really nice, they all came and knocked on door and introduced themselves while we were there decorating over the weekend, said if I needed anything to just shout, one said she was surprised they had given me the place being so heavily pregnant cause it needed so much work lol It's a really nice area just shame about the problems we keep running into while doing it up. Cant wait to have it all finished though :3 Going to call them up again tomorrow ask whats going on about the broken floor boards and ground floor sockets not working and tell them about my blocked sink in bathroom o: |
1.0.0 Snow Motley Corn Snake. (Mouse)
1.0.0 Amel Corn Snake. (Ginger)
0.2.0 Chinese Crested Dogs. (Skeebee & Yuki)
0.1.0 Bullmastiff x American Bulldog (Tsukira)
1.1.0 Ferrets. (Spike & Buffy)
0.2.0 Aylesbury Ducks. (Crispy & Nibbles)
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Kellog
the nice one
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/05/2010 : 04:19:58
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Originally posted by Twi
Neighbours are really nice, they all came and knocked on door and introduced themselves.......it needed so much work lol It's a really nice area just shame about the problems we keep running into while doing it up......
Looks like you are doing an amazing job Rachell - but you better not be overdoing it or I will have to give you THE LECTURE  !!!
It is such good news about your neighbours....especially considering what your present ones are like. Hopefully you will be able to make some friends soon, which will be lovely.
Why am I not surprised about the state the house is in  !! It really is appalling that they are expecting you to move into a house like that in your condition, especially as you have a time limit now you have to be out of your present house by the 9th. But....you dont know how long you might have had to wait for another house to come along. At least you have got this one and the problems are fixable....just make sure you keep the pressure on the council to speed up the work on getting everything sorted as soon as possible - keep reminding them about you being about to have a baby and the need for a house that would pass health and safety standards!!
I really like the wallpaper you have chosen for the lounge and it does match the painted walls and carpet. The garden looks a nice size and will be lovely for the dogs and baby once your brother has taken it in hand  .
I am serious though Rachell - you need to take it easy....that baby needs to stay in you as long as possible and doing too much wont make that happen. I know your mum and your brother are helping, but use as many people to do other things instead of you as you can. REST, REST and more REST!!!!
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Mouse
Yearling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/05/2010 : 17:09:52
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| it's all looking fab! bet you're looking forward to finally moving in! |
 
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Twi
Yearling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/06/2010 : 08:52:51
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Oh wow, so we go till wednesday to move out of old house properly, so me and mum spent yesterday and day before moving small stuff, we've hired a van for monday in the hopes of moving all the big stuff luckily I don't have to do that bit lol My mums roped in my brother and his mate to do that I get to stay here and play on my computer and have a relax while they put in my new kitchen.
Monday is going to be mad because of that, Gonna have builders in and out fitting new kitchen and my mum, brother and Mike in and out with big furniture, and I got dude coming to wipe out old tennants debt on my gas meter so I can go for a long soak in the bath without paying off someone elses debt lol B
ut today and tomorrow we're focusing on moving small stuff, today I'm going into my bedroom and shoving everything in bin bags, I'm then going to bring it here sort through it slowly and anything I don't want can either go in the bin or go on ebay lol Go huge ferret cage I don;t need (or have room for anymore) to go on ebay later see if anyone wants that, if not it can go in shed for a while lol While I'm sorting out my bedroom mums gonna be sorting out hers.
Then tomorrow will be the downstairs packing away kitchen stuff and dining room/study. Sorted out most of livign room yesterday, just gotta pack whats in sideboard now then its all big furniture to move in van.
Snakes got moved here yesterday and are upstairs in my bedroom, Gingers not happy I didn't feed them because I didn't want to unsettle them while they were trying to digest their dinner so I'm gonna give them couple days to settle in then feed them.
On the decorating front, we've put off putting up the wallpaper in the living room cause we've been busy moving stuff, thats top priority at the moment cause we're running out of time to move out lol But my bedrooms finished, we put the carpet down thursday between moving stuff its looking good, just need to get the pictures up but that can wait too. Will get pictures later of the bedroom if I got time :3
Starting to wonder if old tennants left their cats behind. First night we stayed here there was a black cat meowing at the door to get in, the next day the ginger tom cat I saw sunbathing fist day I came here in back garden tried to get in looking a lot more scruffier than he did first time I saw him, they both look like pretty old cats.
Met my other next door neighbour yesterday, think it was a awkward first meeting, she was embarrised cause her dog had come through the hedge and was running around my garden and I was embarrised cause the second she stepped through the gate Skeebee was jumping up at her snapping and barking, didn't bite her, think she was just a big confused with strange dog (shes scared of big dogs) and people around but I was so worried she might have hurt the woman jumping up at her bare legs @.@ She seemed ok though, i got my dogs in the house and her dog tried to follow lol she got hold of her dog and took him back to her garden xD
Well thats all I got for now, thats whats been happening with the house. Trying to get brother to pain babys room for us cause we're tired of painting LOL he said he wouldn;t cause we were using paint pads not rollers, so I went out and bought a £2 roller from wilkos haha
EDIT: Got Some pictures while I was upstairs, mums picking up aunt so I had some spare time, gave me chance to handle ginger too which I havent had time to do for last couple of weeks other than feeding and checking for water, it was nice :)
Carpet needs vacuming but I not moved that over yet haha
I also forgot the extention cable for vivs so mouses viv should be ontop of gingers but i needed to put him overthere for the sockets xD
And skeebee wanted in on pictures too
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1.0.0 Snow Motley Corn Snake. (Mouse)
1.0.0 Amel Corn Snake. (Ginger)
0.2.0 Chinese Crested Dogs. (Skeebee & Yuki)
0.1.0 Bullmastiff x American Bulldog (Tsukira)
1.1.0 Ferrets. (Spike & Buffy)
0.2.0 Aylesbury Ducks. (Crispy & Nibbles)
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It official I have a house \o/ [picheavy]
