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Just did my 'house clearance fund' accounts... £900 left!.... Still have upstairs to do which will be at least 6 of the £225 8 yard skips we have been getting.... need a miracle or a win! So.... We called a local void clearance guy and he came today to give us some quotes.... all still too pricey but we came to an agreement... He will drop off a load of skip bags, I will fill them on the drive, leave wood in one area, paper/books in another, metal in another (standard stuff really) and he will arrive with his 12 yard equivalent truck and vanish it all for no more than £180 !!!! Yes he is legit Considering the cheapest 12 yard here is £300 I am very very happy! I've got the rest of the Library to empty, 4 large double bedrooms, the ironing/sewing room, the dressing room and the bathroom to empty upstairs.... although my old bedroom is done apart from furniture so will be empty in half an hour + axe One of the rooms is mainly clothes, lots and lots and lots of clothes so they will all go to the clothes trade-in for 60p a kilo thank you! haha.. I'm thinking... hoping! That we can empty the rest of the house in 4 truck loads... so around £720 *crosses fingers*

Goodness it's the opposite here... I sometimes wish the males in my family would be more vocal.. I am definitely "Komandant #1" as my late Deda (Grandfather) used to call Babicka (Grandmother) ha ha ha!

90% of downstairs done, growth in kitchen confirmed as roots from various trees growing in the masonry and not dry or wet rot. Library started yesterday but L&P ceiling is falling down in chunks so today I started on the stairs and landing!

Then I shall stop posting them.

*gasp* She's so gorgeous.... love Sig..... but NO.... no nuking.. we will carry on!!

Yeah, I'm kinda not feeling like this VoH house is going to happen now so changed it to my actual name lol I need to empty the house regardless so... we'll see.

That's awesome.... So you are sliding an oblong in to an romboid frame? Or is your glass cut to shape too?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/advice/3306698/On-the-levelToxic-mould-scare-is-a-load-of-rot.html

I'm bloody well going off you lot!

Oh see now @Ian made me happy and then you just made me sad again @JSHarris Um..... I haven't been wearing a mask in the kitchen / breakfast room area because it wasn't dusty... have I fooked my lungs up!

No idea but what a lovely shape!

I think it's the library you know... I've not been in there but the wall in the old music room and that one in the kitchen both back on to the library..... FOOK knows what is waiting for me in there then!!!

ahhhhh ballsocks! I dont want any kind of rot!!! Ok... I still have half a kitchen to empty and a library with a gazillion wet, rotting HEAVY books to empty. Once that is done we will start looking under floors and I will video. Good news is.... someone is coming to take away that fridge freezer in the video on Saturday and empty / tip it for me all for £30 !!! All official and means I dont have to do the dirty.... ((( hurlll))) I will however be gorilla taping the buggery out of it before I attempt to sack barrow it out of the house... the thought of that falling and doing a grand reveal is.....

oh gawd do you really think so? I do feel like just selling it sometimes but ..... Yes there are air vents outside the front and they are open and clear from outside. I need to hurry up and empty the bloody thing and get someone in to tell me if it's worth all the back ache and probably lung disease! Does that video look like dry rot then?

Following!

I'd rather there were 50 pound notes hermetically sealed and waiting for me!

I finished off the bigger half of the kitchen today, got a zillion black and pink bags out for the refuse men and then decided I'd had enough...... I gave in and now I am at home waiting for child #3 to come home from Uni for half term !!! yay.....

True!

This is totally different cement though and only on that wall... I am wondering if there had already been a dry rot issue there and it wasn't dealt with correctly ... The hallway has glossed over wallpaper... it's so weird! Why did people gloss walls??

Thank you all... what's the 'Ian' ref.... is that your real name @recoveringacademic? I'll dig about some more tomorrow, the other side of that wall is the old library and that is f***ed.... excuse my expletives ... The room above it has a crapped out ceiling so pigeons got in, they have done goodness knows what (haven't looked yet) and the ceiling in the library is slowly falling in, the pigeons took a fancy to that room and all the old books and bookcases are saturated in guano.. I will 'try' and see if I can find a safe socket to plug the lamp I am using to light up the library and do a video tomorrow. Does anyone else dream about their soon to be / hope to be homes... like as if the homes were clean and lovely? For years all my recurring dreams about big houses or that house have been in a terrible state.... but lately I am dreaming about us all in there and it's lovely!! (us as in family... not you guys! lol)

Yes it will be the hoarded shite for years..... the wall in question had a huge wall unit against it for almost 40 years, Daddy used to go in to the room and gas heater heat it to buggery while playing music, smoking etc with his friends and then during the day it was left un-heated... no central heating in the house. So I suspect it might be that.... please!!! lol cant see any pattern on the wall of the mold though... There was on other walls in the kitchen for example.. I thought it was some plant roots that had travelled from the plant pots she suspended on the walls!!! This is the room and the wall above the skirting.... I have no idea why half the wall is different...

Feck..... this is it to a T..... OK it's dry rot... WHAT NOW! *runs off crying*

Floor has MDF on it from what I've seen, will investigate tomorrow once I get all the rubbish sacks out and video again.... me bouncing up and down on it !! ... Any of the mold where? On the skirting or anywhere in the house ... only there is a whole host of colours and variations of mold about the house

Faffing poo farts that took far too long to sort out!!! (and I'm a web bloody designer!!!) Hearding bloody pandas? wtf lol ok here's the video... (I hope) SKIRTING CRUMBLE

dayum! I'll pass on having that cup of tea then...... lol