Month: February 2019

  • cafรฉ gray, Greystones

    cafรฉ gray, Greystones

    Nice place, no loud music (it’s there, but way down in the background), comfy chairs, good sound insulation from the busy main road. Pity about the lemon in the apple and almond slice.

  • Investigating the damp

    Investigating the damp

    The builder has spent the day kangoing holes into walls and floors, looking for the source of the damp that is present in the party wall, and that destroyed the parquet floor that was underneath the engineered floor in the porch. Tomorrow’s project for me will be to buy a hose, hook it up to…

  • Yep, itโ€™s damp

    Yep, it’s damp

    The builder showed up bright and early this morning, and we had a chat about what had been found in the first day of demolition and poking. The engineered wood floor came up very easily, and a powerful damp pong reeked through the property once that was done (I can’t smell it, clogged nose). The…

  • Trying to not fall off the ladder

    Trying to not fall off the ladder

    Earlier this year, I purchased a house not far from where I currently rent. The mortgage is within a spitting distance of the rent I was paying (and less than the rent I would pay if I was a new renter to my apartment), the property is what you might refer to as charming, and…