Decorating

Sorry folks that I have been away for a while, only, after five years we have finally got round to decorating the kitchen, so here goes.

Let me explain the kitchen is about 9 ft x 9 ft square and is covered in really nasty artex on the walls and the ceilings, which we knew would have to come off because it collected all the grease and was really difficuilt to clean, hence why we put it off for five years. Ok so I have not cleaned the walls very often.

Anyway we finally decide to start decorating it with a bit of help from my father here is a diary of last two weeks.


Day 1

We manage to get the area round the sink clear of artex by using the technique of soaking it with hot soapy water and scaping it off with a wallpaper scraper five hours to do about a nsix foot square, one very knackered bear.

Day 2

More artex scraped off. Me and Dad covered in artex along with the cooker, sink, freezer, cat etc and unsuspecting husband.

Day 3 as above.

Day 4 finally finish the artexing yippee! unlike hubby who is still trying to get rid of the artex that has transported itself all over the house and all over hubby. Note artex' + water + hubby = concrete ;) especially as he dosen't move much lol.

Then we (Me and Dad) start on the floor. The floor is full off very horrible brown ceramic, broken floor tiles, that everyone falls over.

Day 5

We start on the floor, I thought the artex was bad, the tiles come up ok, but it leaves lots of yukky very wet cement on the floor which takes ages to be scraped up. The tiles go under the dishwasher, so a friend decides to help by pulling out the dishwasher to get to the tiles underneath, and knackers the dishwasher in the process by catching the waste pipe on jaggered tiles and ripping it off, at this point, hubby turns green grows to three times his size and splits his shirt (why is it never the trousers ?) and defends his wallet with a long sharp sword! But he very kindly (Ha Ha) agrees to buy me a new dishwasher, but dad wants to wait until the kitchen is finished, hubby threatens to hit us both with a large plank of wood or his wallet which ever is heaviest.

Hubby says who are you Ive never seen you before in my life. Yeah right!

Day 6

More work on the floor, underneath the tiles are some very horrible lino tiles, which have come up in places and are totally wet through because of the dishwasher spillage. So you guessed it they have to come up as well five hours, and several cut fingers later, we finally get them up. Only to discover some hardboard underneath. Dad says sod it, it will be allright to leave down for the laminate floor, if we ever get round to fitting it.

Day 7

Go with hubby to sort out DLA renewal claim, dad starts doing the fiddly little jobs and filling up holes etc. Me and hubby have stressful day.

Time to rest now for me and hubby.

Tune in to next weekish thrilling episode, of the Kitchen that time forgot.......................

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