OK, so I know this has been a long time coming. We've been busy busy busy with the new flat, but it's FINALLY ready for viewing. Here are some videos of our finished work and an in between showing of our final room to redecorate. In the past few weeks, I've had our kitchen tap water analyzed for lead because we have a lead lined cold water tank in the loft/rafters that feeds the flat with water. The water is pretty contaminated! So, that means we need to completely gut the plumbing in the flat to rectify the problem. Normally this would just be expensive, but since we share the building with three other flats and one business, this makes it extra expensive and complicated... Needless to say I've have just about every plumber in the city over to look at our place and they all tell me a different story. Some want to replace the tank with a plastic one, some want to take us off of the tank and install a pressurized cylinder, and some want to bypass the tank and hook up off of the mains water pipe for our cold water but keep the tank and contamination for the hot water. I haven't a clue what the best option is, but we have another plumber coming today and another one again tomorrow. We'll see how it goes. I'm not sure how the UK managed to be considered a first world country with the horrible plumbing system that they have. The pressure is really bad, and they still have tons of lead all over the country! It's a wonder anyone in this country grows up to be smart, as lead contributes to lower IQ in developing babies.
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From the mundane to the extraordinary and all sorts in between - here you‘ll find out how the Cathcart-Mudd family is faring this European adventure of ours.
From the mundane to the extraordinary and all sorts in between - here you‘ll find out how the Cathcart-Mudd family is faring this European adventure of ours.
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It's SOOO weird (but good weird) to see your same Nashville furniture :) I love it! And I really like the upper cabinet thingy in the living room! Your bedroom quilt is really neat! The metal thing doesn't seem too bad... I love Craigslist! Bulidings here don't have closets either... we were told that this was so that "you could put your own style"... right, especially when you're renting, ha! Good luck with the other room renovation! It's nice to see the work in progress... and I'm sure it will be fun for you guys (well, maybe not now) to remember the work you put into the place to make it look like something "yours" :)
Yeah that upper cabinet thingy would be cool if it wasn't full of an ugly hot water tank! It's super dusty and kind of scary though... But, if we eventually to get our plumbing overhauled, they might pull it out and then we could finish it off and actuall use it. But it looks like we'll end up keeping our contaminated hot water and just clean up the cold water a bit. What a pain!
Have you got turkey day sorted yet?
Oh, and my mother will be so happy to read your compliment on the quilt. She's a machine at pumping those things out. We just pick the color scheme and design and she makes it! It has matching pillow covers, but I never think to put them on, or make the bed for that matter!!!
Make sure you move those boxes from the front door or when we come, we will trip on them and hurt ourselves. Especially me, who always falls on my face. Can't wait to see you. Say hello to Marius and make sure he knows lots of words and doesn't pull my hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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