Door Stops

Sometimes you just have to be lavish & splurge big time. I was looking for some door stops to stop my door handles smashing into the walls. I actually went out & bought some of those springs that you screw into the skirting board. But before I fitted them I spotted these rad silver domes, and realised that they are far superior to the springs. So I took the springs things back for a refund and bought the shiny domes instead.

Even though it's been a couple of months since I bought these things, I still smile every time I see them sitting there on my floor. Cool huh?

The Dump

After stripping out the old storage heaters, and having the wooden floor put down, I had a fair amount of crap to dispose of:

A trip to the dump was in order. So I had to then fit this pile of crap into my cart. Trying to fit it all in so that it didn't move about or obstruct my view was kinda like doing a 3d jigsaw. Not easy. But I managed just fine:

And here's the view from the driver's seat:

I then drove to the dump:

And I took great satisfaction in disposing of the awful heaters:

The only downside was that my car was then filthy, so I had to then spend time cleaning it up.

Cleaning Up & Leaving #11

Seems crazy that I let so much time pass on here. I guess this blog seemed like a cool project during the time i was moving, whereas after it felt pointless. But I think I'm going to keep it going, since transforming my new place into a better one is going to be a long-term project. But here's the end of the moving story...

In order to clean up my old apartment I had to hire a carpet cleaner. I drove about 5 miles to good old HSS Hire near Heathrow airport:

This place literally never closes. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Handy to know in case you feel the need to hire a welder generator at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Anyway, en route to the hire outlet I drove down some weird road that I had never been down before, which housed several huge hotels. But the weird thing was that some of them looked kinda like the kind of places I imagine you would find in Las Vegas or Miami. Here's a couple of examples:

Here's me using the carpet cleaning device:

And here are some shots of the empty number 11, post clean up.

I did such a good job on the clean up that I got given my full deposit back. Pretty much a world first. Mind you, I did need that money to pay for my wooden floor fitting.

We're Back

It's been 3 months since I last updated this thing. I always intended to keep this going, but as with most things I got behind and other things came along and before I knew it months had flown by. But I'm going to start updating this thing again now. Stay tuned...