Renovating a derelict property - Walls come tumbling down 17.02.13
Time to start removing the walls
from the first floor, first things first and we have to try to empty the rooms,
we have been using these as storage.
So all the paint goes into the back bedroom, this means once again a room that was almost finished has turned back into part of the building site.
The first wall takes approx 2 minutes to come
down, we were left wondering how the hell it had ever managed to stay up, but
it really is best not to dwell on these types of thoughts or I may panic and
want to move out.
The acro goes back up and I go
back to the tip, twice! I am starting to get quite friendly with the guy who
works there, and he now helps me to unload the car when he’s not busy, toady he
was quite busy and I had to make a stupid mistake, emptying the rubble bag into
the skip I didn’t hold on to it very well and the bag went in with the last
bits.
They are very strict with the
recycling here and you are not allowed to put things into the wrong skip, and a
hessian bag in with rubble is definitely wrong, so he comes over with his
fishing rod and gets it out for me.
I made up for it though as I had
memorised how to say this is the last wall in French, and I knew this sentence
until I spoke to him, when 2 of the words came out the wrong way, but he
understood. I think this is one of the reasons he is so helpful, on my first
visit I hardly knew a word of French and now I am having little bits of
conversations with him, he can see I’m making the effort, this will always help
if you move to another country with a different language, if you try and people
can see you trying they will generally make allowances and be a lot more
helpful.
I also strip the hall wall of the
remaining horrendous brick wall paper, once the paper is off, we realise that
there is a type of tar on the wall, this takes hours of scraping and still does
not fully come off, I also find out it is not a good idea to move the step
ladder whilst there is a bucket of water perched on the top.
IT WILL FALL OFF
AND GO ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!
We have to try to stop the water
from going out of the front door as there are all the bits of paper and tar in
it, I hate stripping walls, and to make matters worse it doesn’t even look that
much better!
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