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Back in Withnell. It's Crack at the House 2 - The Sitting Room.
Plans for a simple lick o' paint have been thwarted by the discovery that there's some nasty-looking damp in the neighbour's wall (we live in a terrace. Legally, we own the wall with our chimney on it, the neighbours own the other wall - the one with their chimney on it). Our house is damp-proofed, theirs obviously isn't (usually you have to put a DPC in to get a mortgage if, for some reason, the property doesn't have one. ::shrug:: Maybe they don't have a mortgage?).
Anyway, we're not going to worry too much and hope to get away with damp-sealing our side. That's the plan for now, anyway. We have a dehumidifier running, that's it for today (for yeah, verily, after the M62 and fighting round Morrisons and B&Q, I be knackered) Tomorrow = clearing the sitting room (with all it's antique knick-knacks and a thousand or so books) and settling our stuff in the bedroom. Sunday = stripping wallpaper, damp-sealing the damn wall and stuff.
And Lawdy law, just look at the weather! I hope Snail and all Flisters down in the SW and Wales are faring OK, I believe you've got it far, far worse than we have. Batten your hatches if you have them, my lovelies.
Plans for a simple lick o' paint have been thwarted by the discovery that there's some nasty-looking damp in the neighbour's wall (we live in a terrace. Legally, we own the wall with our chimney on it, the neighbours own the other wall - the one with their chimney on it). Our house is damp-proofed, theirs obviously isn't (usually you have to put a DPC in to get a mortgage if, for some reason, the property doesn't have one. ::shrug:: Maybe they don't have a mortgage?).
Anyway, we're not going to worry too much and hope to get away with damp-sealing our side. That's the plan for now, anyway. We have a dehumidifier running, that's it for today (for yeah, verily, after the M62 and fighting round Morrisons and B&Q, I be knackered) Tomorrow = clearing the sitting room (with all it's antique knick-knacks and a thousand or so books) and settling our stuff in the bedroom. Sunday = stripping wallpaper, damp-sealing the damn wall and stuff.
And Lawdy law, just look at the weather! I hope Snail and all Flisters down in the SW and Wales are faring OK, I believe you've got it far, far worse than we have. Batten your hatches if you have them, my lovelies.
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