Hot, sticky, steamy…and a little bit disappointing. That’s how I’d sum up Day 4 of my property renovation!
It’s been 32 degrees outside – but it must have been closer to 50 degrees inside my kitchen…as I had the wallpaper steamer plugged in for most of the day.
All wallpaper and tiles have been removed from the kitchen – and the the units can now be removed – however we can’t remove all of it as we need to keep the kitchen sink for access to water.
Maybe it’s me, or maybe it was the heat – but everything seemed to take longer to do…and so it seems progress was slower.
I’m disappointed that my great “freecycle the garden” idea doesn’t look like it will pan out. I had several interested freecyclers round who were tempted by the idea of free mature hedging, conifers and shrubs. (I laughed so much when somebody thought I was offering a “mature hedgehog”!) But, alas this idea doesn’t look like it will work as everybody is put off by the “matureness” read “hard work digging it out” – so basically the garden renovation looks like it’s now firmly back in my court.
I have NO idea how I am going to get rid of the 10ft conifers – or how I can even get close enough to have a proper look with the huge spiky hedge which blocks the way. I have looked at buying a chain saw – but feel unless I want to re-create scenes from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre I should probably avoid the purchase of this! A mini digger has been proposed (not in budget – yikes!), but we have since discovered we don’t have the access necessary to get one to the garden. I think I’m going to have to find some big, burly blokes with raw man power…now that will make an interesting search in google…think I’ll turn the Parental Guidance OFF!
Here’s a round up of day 4:
Until next time.
Damian Galvin
Thanks for a useful property blog. Always nice to keep in touch with the UK market & its operatives! Even though much of it is intended for your market, its still transposable for the market here in Romania where the market is still young & somewhat uncontrolled.
Keep up the good work,
Damian Galvin
http://www.whitemountain.ro>>
romanian realestate.
Sam
Hi, thanks so much for your kind comments. We visited Bucharest a few years ago and thought it was wonderful (although at that time there seemed to be a bit of an ex-pat bubble which was making the market over-heated in our opinion). We also visited the People’s Palace – which is quite some engineering feat!
Jonathan
Get a mattock or grubbing adze – they are perfect for pulling out trees as they will chop through the roots pretty easily, especially if you sharpen them.
It’s still tough work though – going to take a while to do.
Rich Greenland
Sam you should be able to cut the shrubs out with a bowsaw and then get a stump-grinder to grind them off. Probably more fit for purpose than a mini-digger.