Flat update

[andrewducker]

Boiler is in, works fantastically, and we're delighting in having instant hot water rather than having to wait 90 seconds for it to stabilise.  Also in having a thermometer in the middle of the flat to keep the whole place at a stable temperature, rather than using thermostatic valves is great.  Although it's been coming on too high too soon recently, leaving us waking up boiling in our bed.

The last internal stuff happens on Monday/Tuesday - new flooring in three rooms, which should help dramatically with Julie's asthma, make the study livable (as the carpet is still the same one that was in there when it was full of dry/wet rot) and stop the hallway being so wobbly.  We'll have to juggle things around, as all of the rooms currently have stuff in them, but it's happening over two days, so that should be feasible.  poisonduk and princealbert are helping pick up 36 square metres of flooring tomorrow, for which we're very grateful.

And then the week after we're getting the outside of the flat scraped down and repainted by the insurance company's builders.  The water from the leak apparently forced its way through the sandstone wall, turning the front few millimeters into, well, sand.  So that's being sorted out and then painted to look nice again.  Thank fuck for insurance.

I have no idea what I'm going to stress about when this is all over.  Maybe I'll even start sleeping well again!

Comments

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad this is almost over!

[andrewducker]

Thanks - and me too!

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

The "too hot too soon" phenomenon is likely a transient response, overshooting the thermostat target temperature because of the time it takes hot air from the radiators to reach the ambient thermostat. You can reduce that effect by turning the boiler's water temperature thermostat down, which will mean it'll take slightly longer to heat the place up, but you'll reduce the overshoot.

[andrewducker]

Well, part of the problem is that the bedroom is much smaller than the living room/study, and it's heating up faster than them, so it gets hotter by the time the thermometer turns everything off again.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

We have that problem because of our large, open floor plan on the ground floor but the smaller bedrooms on the higher story. We've shut vents upstairs. Would that work for you?

[andrewducker]

I'm on one floor. Tiny flat, what with living in a city and whatnot. I'll turn down the heater in that room, and probably set the central heating to come on slightly later.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

You missed the bit about the pink carpet being there forever, without underlay, and never really being fixed at the sides...!

[andrewducker]

Nooo! Don't you be touching my Karpitt!

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

WHich carpet are we keeping?

[andrewducker]

Living room, at least for the moment. It'll need to go at some point as well, but the room is packed at the moment, so it'd be impossible to do at the same time as everything else.

[sneakingyoda.livejournal.com]

Oy! *runs away from all your home improvement, afraid.*