The one in which i-just-hide is still trying to sort out the cursed water leak...
My more attentive readers may remember that my bedroom and (to a lesser extent) living room walls were damaged by water leaking from a flat upstairs back in October/November last year. Fortunately, the damage was only superficial but the paintwork and some of the plaster are badly stained and need replacing. The situation was complicated by the fact the buildings insurance is related to freeholder of the building rather than the management company. After a lot of chasing and people not responding to phone calls etc. a loss adjuster finally came out to visit me at the end of April. He agreed that they would fund the repairs and surveyor from their contractors came out to visit towards the end of May. The surveyor said that he'd submit the costing to the insurance company and they'd hopefully contact me to arrange to start work in a few weeks time. I was really busy in June and lost track of time a bit. When July arrived I realised that it had been a while since I'd heard anything. I didn't have any contact details for the contractors so I phoned the insurance company again. They couldn't find my file. By this stage I was so exasperated that I just laughed it off thinking that I'd probably be chasing them in a week or two. I was wrong. Today they sent through a plan of work which had been approved. My bedroom, which I'd painted less than 6 months before the leak, will look nice again. Now I need to decide which colours to go for.
The decorating process is going to be inconveniant to say the least. I'm going to have to move all the bedroom furniture into the lounge and then two days later move all the lounge furniture into the bedroom. It's going to be a bit of struggle fitting all the lounge furniture into a bedroom half the size but I'm sure I'll manage. The worst thing will be moving 200 books for the second year running.
At least the whole saga seems to be coming to an end though. I think I'll have a party when it's all over :)
The decorating process is going to be inconveniant to say the least. I'm going to have to move all the bedroom furniture into the lounge and then two days later move all the lounge furniture into the bedroom. It's going to be a bit of struggle fitting all the lounge furniture into a bedroom half the size but I'm sure I'll manage. The worst thing will be moving 200 books for the second year running.
At least the whole saga seems to be coming to an end though. I think I'll have a party when it's all over :)