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date: 2021-03-13
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## Initial Tour

Check out [the tour](https://youtu.be/5KsANTX4k4s) if you missed it!

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## What a week!

It's been a bit over a week since we moved in, and we haven't been putting every little update on Nozzy House News. So here's a weekly digest. This is as much for us to remind ourselves what we've actually done as it is to keep other people updated.

Loads has happened this week so I'm just going to do a bullet point update

- Lots of exploring through the house and finding weird little things
- Giving a [video tour](https://youtu.be/5KsANTX4k4s) for everyone :)
- Two car-loads of stuff from Harrow that needed to be carried the length of the garden
- First Ikea delivery giving us a real bed to replace the airbed and some tables
- So much cleaning! All the bathrooms, the kitchen, vaxing the carpets we're going to keep for a while. Despite cleaning the kitchen, it still feels pretty dirty :(
- Cleaned a few of the windows, which involves trusting the iron balconets. So far no-one has died
- We took some time to wander around outside the house and found a nice walk into Bath along the canal and railway. Pretty much everything is shut in Bath, but it's a good place to wander around anyway. There's a local village centre just across the road from us (Larkhall) that has a really nice butchers and greengrocers
- We pulled up the carpets in the kitchen-to-be and were pleased with the floorboards beneath. We need to figure out what to do with the fireplace hearthstone as it's placed on top of the carpet, and it looks like the fireplace is placed on top of that
- We've managed to place 6 separate Screwfix orders. I feel like we should get some sort of loyalty bonus
- Had to rush to Wickes to get some fusewire after one of the lighting fuses blew
- Got all the radiators working. They were all turned off, and 5 of them had got their valves stuck in the off position. Some judicious wiggling solved that issue. The chilliest toilet is still chilly
- Got the ball rolling on various longer term projects. Had visits from the electrician and damp specialist. Organised a visit from roofers. Started talking to bathroom and kitchen people
- Fixed the leaking tap in the top bathroom
- Got our internet transfered which removed our dialtone, then organised another visit from an engineer to fix that. Which means my servers are now back up and running

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- Got most of the blue room sorted. It's now white with yellow curtains

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- Stripped the wallpaper in the top guest room in preparation for painting. Wallpaper steamers are actually magic! It would have taken a million times longer without one

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- Made sure each bathroom has soap, a towel, bog brush, and a bin
- Got a replacement lock, installed it, found it had a fault, removed it, and reinstalled the old one again :(
- Built some shelves for the cupboards in the master bedroom. This is Nikki load-testing the first shelf

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- Stopped the honky toilet from honking
- Scrubbed all the fluff out of the utility room
- Trimmed the garden a bit
- Figured out the bins
- Got some lovely housewarming cards

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- Said hi to the neighbours :) They all seem nice
- Changed our address in so. many. places.
- Rummaged around in the loft to try and figure out the damage to the ceiling in the top floor bathroom. It doesn't look like the cold water tank is causing this issue, but we can't see anything else that is. It's a very hard area to get to because the cold water tanks are all in the way. The two possible causes seem to be something else wrong with the plumbing or something wrong with the roof/gutter. We've had some rain since we've been here and the damaged ceiling hasn't felt damp afterwards ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ We've got some roofers coming to have a peek next week so we'll see if we get any answers then. It's possible that this is all historic stuff and there's nothing for us to find
- Checked out a couple of takeaways. Not only have they been delicious, they've helped us keep the washing up to a minimum whilst we don't have our dishwasher
- We're feeling a definite lack of comfortable chairs. Currently we're making do with a couple of deckchairs

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- Finally, we saw a rainbow today 🌈

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## Summary

So, a very busy week! Lots of odd jobs around the house, and lots of getting longer projects rolling. Lots of big costs floating around as well - which will feel a bit more reasonable once the Harrow house has sold. We've just had our first day where we allowed ourselves a proper rest and we're feeling much more like real people again.

We've still got another full week of holiday to sort stuff out here. And then soon after that we'll actually have the movers move all the rest of our stuff.

We're both still super excited about the house - It doesn't quite feel real yet.

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