Do It Ourselves
Nov. 12th, 2009 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheThe most difficult part of DIY for us is the timing. We got it wrong twice - once in July 2008 and once in September 2009, IIRC - and had people bothered by the noise. I hate this, it makes me feel sick to my stomach. So now we plan things carefully; if we can't get them done between 10:30 and 18:30 on a weekday we ask neighbours when is convenient at a weekend.
Tonight we had to hammer the veneer back of a wardrobe into chipboard, so we assembled it with lightning speed and started hammering just after 6pm. It was fine.
But sometimes we have to ask the 7 independent occupants living either side of us when at a weekend will suit them. One woman gets up early on a Saturday and goes out so she'd like us finished by noon on Saturdays and not to do it on Sundays. Far more people lie in at weekends but then go out in the afternoons. What works best is the weekends when the people living on one side are all away and the people living on the other side all sleep late and then go out shopping.
But it doesn't happen very much.
Of course, ideally, we'd have enough money to get it done during normal working hours, when this is the only occupied house and so it's fair game to cut off the water, the electricity, the gas, or the peace-and-quiet while people hired to work in neighbouring houses get things done.
Still, we managed it tonight.
Someone next door is watching something with a lot of revving cars in it.
Tonight we had to hammer the veneer back of a wardrobe into chipboard, so we assembled it with lightning speed and started hammering just after 6pm. It was fine.
But sometimes we have to ask the 7 independent occupants living either side of us when at a weekend will suit them. One woman gets up early on a Saturday and goes out so she'd like us finished by noon on Saturdays and not to do it on Sundays. Far more people lie in at weekends but then go out in the afternoons. What works best is the weekends when the people living on one side are all away and the people living on the other side all sleep late and then go out shopping.
But it doesn't happen very much.
Of course, ideally, we'd have enough money to get it done during normal working hours, when this is the only occupied house and so it's fair game to cut off the water, the electricity, the gas, or the peace-and-quiet while people hired to work in neighbouring houses get things done.
Still, we managed it tonight.
Someone next door is watching something with a lot of revving cars in it.