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layout: ../../layouts/LayoutMdx.astro
title: Most of 2022
date: 2022-08-22
image: year2022-1/toilet5.jpg
dir: year2022-1
image: toilet5
description: most of a year happens
---
export const s = (s) => `year2022-1/${s}`;
import { generateImageHyrdationFunction } from "../../utils";
export const s = generateImageHyrdationFunction("year2022-1");
import Cards from "../../components/Cards.astro";
import Callout from "../../components/Callout.astro";
@@ -17,15 +20,17 @@ import Quote from "../../components/Quote.astro";
We're baaaaack! It's been quite a while since the last update and while we can make up lots of excuses for this, no one wants to hear them and they're not very good.
<Cards images={[
{title: "Excuse no. 1", src: s("excuse1.jpg")},
{title: "Excuse no. 2", src: s("excuse2.jpg")},
{title: "Excuse no. 43", src: s("excuse4.jpg")},
{title: "Excuse no. 57", src: s("excuse6.jpg")},
{title: "Excuse no. 3463a", src: s("excuse48.jpg")},
{title: "Excuse no. 3463b", src: s("excuse5.jpg")},
{title: "Excuse no. 574568468", src: s("excuse3576.jpg")},
]} />
<Cards
images={[
{ title: "Excuse no. 1", src: s("excuse1") },
{ title: "Excuse no. 2", src: s("excuse2") },
{ title: "Excuse no. 43", src: s("excuse4") },
{ title: "Excuse no. 57", src: s("excuse6") },
{ title: "Excuse no. 3463a", src: s("excuse48") },
{ title: "Excuse no. 3463b", src: s("excuse5") },
{ title: "Excuse no. 574568468", src: s("excuse3576") },
]}
/>
We're about to kick off another load of work on the house, but before we can get to any of that we need to get you all up to date with what's been going on in the....
@@ -37,8 +42,9 @@ The shower glass was the last thing to go in. We now consider this room done\* (
<Cards images={[
{title: "Glass in. No more wet feet on the toilet 😬", src: s("bathroom2.jpg")},
{title: "Done*", src: s("bathroom1.jpg")},
{title: "Glass in. No more wet feet on the toilet 😬", src: s("bathroom2")},
{title: "Done*", src: s("bathroom1")},
]} />
## The Bedroom
@@ -51,8 +57,9 @@ The cinema is a lot nicer than it was. We upgraded the seating when Ozzy bought
<Cards images={[
{title: "Before", src: s("cine-1.jpg")},
{title: "After", src: s("cine-2.jpg")},
{title: "Before", src: s("cine-1")},
{title: "After", src: s("cine-2")},
]} />
We took a large step sideways when we became custodians of Henry's exercise bike and rowing machine to turn our cinema into a gymena (that word is much more fun to say than to type). When we tried out this arrangement for the first time it began very well, but as the projector warmed up it quickly became unpleasant on the bike as the projector belches hot air straight into your face. We solved this by buying a **BIG FAN**, which we probably should have had anyway as there isn't a lot of airflow in the basement.
@@ -67,9 +74,10 @@ It is hard to paint a tube with a brush. It looks _okaayy_.
<Cards images={[
{title: "Spray painting the legs", src: s("legs0.jpg")},
{title: "Spray painting the legs a bit more", src: s("legs1.jpg")},
{title: "After the latest paint", src: s("legs2.jpg")},
{title: "Spray painting the legs", src: s("legs0")},
{title: "Spray painting the legs a bit more", src: s("legs1")},
{title: "After the latest paint", src: s("legs2")},
]} />
If we knew what we knew now, we'd have either bought the legs already ✨bling✨ed, or been satisfied with the legs as they were. It wasn't really worth the amount of effort we had to put in to change them.
@@ -82,8 +90,9 @@ A quick little project we fancied was to create an outdoor balconette seating ar
<Cards images={[
{title: "Flooring in", src: s("balcony1.jpg")},
{title: "Done*", src: s("balcony2.jpg")},
{title: "Flooring in", src: s("balcony1")},
{title: "Done*", src: s("balcony2")},
]} />
## Sash window
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<Cards images={[
{title: "Crowbars and windows shouldn't be mixed", src: s("window1.jpg")},
{title: "A big hole in our house", src: s("window2.jpg")},
{title: "Crowbars and windows shouldn't be mixed", src: s("window1")},
{title: "A big hole in our house", src: s("window2")},
]} />
Next was trying to access the weights compartment. This was not successful. We just couldn't find a way to remove the cover without looking like we would damage the wood in such a way that the window would no longer smoothly run over it.
@@ -122,16 +132,18 @@ Remember what it was like?
<Cards images={[
{title: "Eurgh", src: s("toilet-eurgh.jpg")},
{title: "Yuck", src: s("toilet-yuck.jpg")},
{title: "Eurgh", src: s("toilet-eurgh")},
{title: "Yuck", src: s("toilet-yuck")},
]} />
First off, demolition. It was pretty easy to remove the backsplash tiles and sink. The tiles were attached to wallpaper, which was attached to expanded polystyrene, which was not very attached to wall. There was a large amount of polyfillering, sanding, then more polyfillering to do once the old tiles and sink had been ripped out.
<Cards images={[
{title: "Forever", src: s("toilet-destroy.jpg")},
{title: "Polyfillering", src: s("toilet-polyfiller.jpg")},
{title: "Forever", src: s("toilet-destroy")},
{title: "Polyfillering", src: s("toilet-polyfiller")},
]} />
Next, painting. We thought it was fitting that, as the previous colour was leftover blue paint from what our office was, the new colour is the leftover green paints from our bedroom and front door. Clearly it is too small a room for anyone to bother buying new paint! In fact, it was so small a room that Ozzy decided it would be _far too_ crowded for more than one person to do the painting, so Nikki had to do it all (oh no 🙃).
@@ -140,27 +152,27 @@ Next next, we installed the sink, toilet seat, new light, elephant fittings and
<Cards images={[
{title: "Painting", src: s("toilet-painting.jpg")},
{title: "More painting", src: s("toilet-painting2.jpg")},
{title: "Sinkholes", src: s("toilet1.jpg")},
{title: "Sink", src: s("toilet2.jpg")},
{title: "Elephant fittings", src: s("toilet-fittings.jpg")},
{title: "Waiting for our jungle print", src: s("toilet4.jpg")},
{title: "Jungle print!", src: s("toilet5.jpg")},
{title: "Painting", src: s("toilet-painting")},
{title: "More painting", src: s("toilet-painting2")},
{title: "Sinkholes", src: s("toilet1")},
{title: "Sink", src: s("toilet2")},
{title: "Elephant fittings", src: s("toilet-fittings")},
{title: "Waiting for our jungle print", src: s("toilet4")},
{title: "Jungle print!", src: s("toilet5")},
]} />
Next next next was a fair amount of plumbing planning. We had already bought some plumbing supplies, but more were needed, and we wanted to be certain we could get the job fully done once we started.
<Solocard title="Totally fits ⁔" src={s("car.jpg")} />
<Solocard title="Totally fits ⁔" src={s("car")} />
In went the lego pipes for hot and cold. After the requisite testing, splashing, swearing and fixing, we had the sink input complete and the sink output briefly set up using the fêted (fetid?) "Nozzy Dishwasher" drainage method (a bucket underneath, for those who don't remember). We connected the waste properly shortly afterwards and painted them to blend into the walls.
<Solocard title="Pre-painted plumbing picture" src={s("toilet3.jpg")} />
<Solocard title="Pre-painted plumbing picture" src={s("toilet3")} />
Next next next next was the floor. We had a sample set of vinyl planks from Nikki's parents which were fine, except we thought we'd like a colour that more closely matched the kitchen floor. In they went. Silicon went round the edges and the room is now a _lot_ less woodlousey and spidery than it was. The vinyl planks were easy to score and snap, but it would have been a lot simpler to work with had the room been less entirely made of edges, none of which were square.
<Solocard title="Looking done*!" src={s("toilet6.jpg")} />
<Solocard title="Looking done*!" src={s("toilet6")} />
All in all, we would class this room as a huge success for us, even though it took so long to work ourselves up to it. The plumbing job took a while to plan for, but because we had planned so hard it was pretty straightforward to actually do. This is a dangerous lesson, as we are generally a bit prone to overanalysing instead of getting on with things.
@@ -169,14 +181,15 @@ All in all, we would class this room as a huge success for us, even though it to
One of the joys of having this blog is being able to relive the past and reminisce about what the house used to be like and how far we've come. Unfortunately, that joy comes with the ability to read sentences like the following
<Quote person="Ozzy" date="Oct 2021">
High on our priority list is now a way to sort this out without having to climb on the roof
High on our priority list is now a way to sort this out without having to
climb on the roof
</Quote>
Look at that! That's me declaring a high priority item from nearly a year ago.
As you may have guessed, we haven't fixed this one yet and after the recent heavy rain our house rained inside again. Aaargghgh! We need to be able to sort this out. We are looking at methods of preventing the gutter from filling up with debris, and ways of clearing out the internal gutter. Seeing as how it was summer Ozzy found an appropriately summery solution - a bucket and spade. Expect more updates on this in the future.
<Solocard title="Bucket and spade" src={s("summer.jpg")} />
<Solocard title="Bucket and spade" src={s("summer")} />
## Study sofabed
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<Cards images={[
{title: "Great engineering", src: s("sofabed-engineering.jpg")},
{title: "For a very sunny sofabed", src: s("sofabed.jpg")},
{title: "Great engineering", src: s("sofabed-engineering")},
{title: "For a very sunny sofabed", src: s("sofabed")},
]} />
## Any other updates?
There is one cool housey news thing that's too good not to share. One of our neighbours pointed out one of the roses in our garden and gave us a bit of its history. It's a variety called Whiter Shade of Pale, and it was planted here because the previous owner's husband was [Denny Cordell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Cordell) - the producer for Procol Harum, as well as some early Moody Blues albums 😄
<Solocard title="Whiter shade of paaaale 🎶" src={s("rose.jpg")} />
<Solocard title="Whiter shade of paaaale 🎶" src={s("rose")} />
We also marked another important milestone - We made our first apple crumble from the apples in our garden. Yum yum yum
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Clearly this isn't enough housey upheaval because we've decided that we're going to tackle a little utility room improvement ourselves before/at the same time.
<Callout>
Nikki and Ozzy are not the wisest
</Callout>
<Callout>Nikki and Ozzy are not the wisest</Callout>
We've finally managed to learn that nothing is ever really **done** done, it's only done\*, and it's just a matter of priorities for when you decide enough is enough and it's time to move onto the next thing for now.