Big bills

[sammywol]

Well the new house is not yet inhabitable, and in fact due to a few factors beyond our control we seem to have slipped backwards rather than advanced at all this last fortnight. Still, by the end of this week we will have a nice warm new bathroom and by the end of next a kitchen (the cost of which was rather like an arrow in the chest actually -

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[mylescorcoran]

Thanks for the reminder. I haven't included the cost of the ceiling repairs in the budgeting so far, and haven't asked Sean for a price. Are we waiting to see if it dries out or what?

[sammywol]

Are we waiting to see if it dries out or what? yes. Do not want to touch it until we are sure nothing else is bloody leaking and after the bathroom has gone in for same reasons. Ask for a price though.

[sammywol]

Failing that I can ask him and cry a bit while Oscar tries to drown himself in the old loo cistern.

[curiouswombat]

Sounds like a plan...

[shapinglight]

:crosses fingers for you:

[sammywol]

toes too please

Thanks!

[a_d_medievalist]

Oh, yuck. If the plumber screwed things up, shouldn't he be responsible for the cost? And ... oh hell, just *hugs*

[sammywol]

Legally yes. Enforce-ably not a chance. He can reasonably claim that some of the damage was due to previous leaks (it wasn't but there was a small leak in the old tank) and given his perfect 'cute hoor' (a Cork speciality) status can probably produce twelve witnesses to say he was working on an oil rig at the time. The worst we can do to him is moral blackmail via the neighbours who view him as a sort of foster son but given that he-neighbour has possibly terminal cancer and she-neighbour has lost two of her brothers to cancer this last year there is a limit to how ruthless I fancy being with them as well.

Hugs is about right. thanks!

[enigmaticblues]

Moving always takes way more money than you ever thought possible. *hugs*

[mylescorcoran]

Unfortunately true. The moving should (hah!) be cheap enough. It's the renovations of the house beforehand that seem to be spiraling out of control.

Luckily our daughter loves ramen.

[sammywol]

Oh you just wait until you have a house of your own love. :) Will hold your hand when your turn comes. Promise!

[leedy]

Oh gah on the unexpected expenses. What with our recent bathroom malfunction we too are having an unexpected money haemorrhage (and we had planned on doing the bathroom up at some stage, just not right now), though not on nearly such a grand scale.

Still, we will both have new cosy non-leaky bathrooms at the end of it!

[mylescorcoran]

Damn I hope so. I'm looking forward to a new, fully functional bathroom.

[sammywol]

Oh God yes please! Water only where one wants it please. What happened to yours? Must have missed that piece of news. When I was pregnant with DD we had the floors done in the house. Domestic upheaval is never any easier when one is walking for two but seems to be traditional.