House repairs
Jan. 23rd, 2013 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzYesterday a man dropped by to fix some things about the house. I am most pleased at least some of the problems we're experiencing are going to be fixed, although I am happy we don't live near the owner. She's probably fuming at what this all will cost, and I'm just hoping she will see the realtor's point: if you never do any maintenance, sooner or later problems like the ones we're having are coming up.
The broken tiles are now fixed and he put a new layer of silicon around the upstairs bathroom, since it was old and crumply. The radiator in theside room solarium is now also fixed, it was hanging with one end on the floor. He also took all of the upstairs doors out of their frames and shaved them down so they can close again. The upstairs bathroom door still doesn't lock, but at least it can now be closed. That might need some getting used to.
He will return on Thursday afternoon to fix a bit of wall in the attic and he looked at the solarium's leaking. Apparantly the entire sun roof is leaking, even between the two layers of plexiglass. He can put some more silicon kit in there, but it will only move the problem and water will start coming through the roof in stead of down the sun window. There's also a ton of mold up there you can't see unless you stand on the table. :-(
All the roofing in this house is old and some, if not most of it has been laid badly. Hence all the leaks. He can't fix the roofs with this snow, so that will have to wait. Not a word has been spoken about the downstairs toilet, so I might have to contact the realtor about that.
But the new tiles are very pretty indeed.
I'm going to throw myself at my daily commute; there's a disturbance between Tilburg and Eindhoven and I expect the 8.14 sprinter to Den Bosch to be hell in a sardine tin. I think I might prefer waiting for the 8.24 intercity instead. It's a bigger train and all the people who didn't check the internet or news and showed up at the station for the 8.06 train that was canceled will probably pile into the sprinter.
The broken tiles are now fixed and he put a new layer of silicon around the upstairs bathroom, since it was old and crumply. The radiator in the
He will return on Thursday afternoon to fix a bit of wall in the attic and he looked at the solarium's leaking. Apparantly the entire sun roof is leaking, even between the two layers of plexiglass. He can put some more silicon kit in there, but it will only move the problem and water will start coming through the roof in stead of down the sun window. There's also a ton of mold up there you can't see unless you stand on the table. :-(
All the roofing in this house is old and some, if not most of it has been laid badly. Hence all the leaks. He can't fix the roofs with this snow, so that will have to wait. Not a word has been spoken about the downstairs toilet, so I might have to contact the realtor about that.
But the new tiles are very pretty indeed.
I'm going to throw myself at my daily commute; there's a disturbance between Tilburg and Eindhoven and I expect the 8.14 sprinter to Den Bosch to be hell in a sardine tin. I think I might prefer waiting for the 8.24 intercity instead. It's a bigger train and all the people who didn't check the internet or news and showed up at the station for the 8.06 train that was canceled will probably pile into the sprinter.
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Date: 2013-01-23 08:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-23 10:06 am (UTC)We're having some leakage with the chimney/roof too and it can't be fixed until the snow and frost is gone. Bugger. On the other hand, snow doesn't seep into the chimney joints as easily as water does, so most of the damage in the attic has had the time to dry up a bit.
Snow and frost suck... last year the building of our dormer had to wait until it was 'warm' enough to work.