The toilet floor - finally! 2

Once I had lain on end of lino in place, I unrolled it up to the obstruction - the toilet. I then had to mark and cut a single slit in the rest of the lino, so that it would go around the toilet base.

Once this first cut had been made, I could snip across to the desired hole and back to encompass the toilet podium. Cutting less at the very back, I was happy that the single cut almost joined properly....

I next had to roll the lino up again and add some glue - then press it into place.

My cutting might not be perfect - but it sure looked smarter than grotty carpets! I left it for an hour or two, and then reassembled the apparatus -

The job was more or less completed - except....
Well, the old toilet brush looked just as gross as the carpet had, so I invested in a new one! Likewise, the old toilet mat was a tad on the yukky side - so I got another of those too. Here is the completed new toilet floor - with useful and very clean accessories installed!

The toilet floor - finally! 1

It has been a long time since I posted in this blog - not due to laziness of writing, but lack of time and finances to get anything done. My Father was in hospital for close to six weeks recently, and my housekeeping finances mostly went on bus fare to visit him for the first 3 weeks. However, it also gave me the opportunity to get the linoleum laid in the loo. As a recap as to why this needed to be done - this WAS the toilet.








As you can see, a dirty blue mat topped pices of dirty brown carpet - and under them, was a layer of dusty old newspaper.


I got to work with laying out the tools that I expected I would need and then began....

Removing the grotty carpets, I decided to toss them out. There was very little use for them as anything but trash in their condition. Likewise, the newspaper was not old enough to be of value as an antique so that got tossed into a black garbage sack as well. I then vaccumed and began to lay the pre-cut a few weeks ago lino.

NEW STUFF - OLD STUFF

I ordered a new broom, tray, and pair of oven gloves last month.

Taking a look at what used to be, I am sure you would not need excess observation skills to say thatthis minor league purchase was worth while. My father's ablutions tray was disgusting, to say the least...

The broom was filthy and the oven gloves were falling to dirty pieces. Yes, definitely a few pleasant new purchases that were as much needed as wanted.

Dad's new tray is much smarter, along with fitting in with the surroundings better. 

Now, I will not make the pots and pans dirty when extracting them from the stove!

The floor now ends up cleaner rather than dirtier after a wet-sweep-wash!

Yes, I did not pay an outstanding ammount but I certainly feel it is money well spent!

There are more items for sale at the 'for sale' photo album: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150410358909141.365973.508649140&type=3&l=df58e6fa33

Check it out if you are looking for second hand books, vinyls, bric a brac, curios, and oddities. (Tea-cards and postcards, coming soon)

D2P: Dad's reading light 2

The globe I picked up for £1 at a lighting shop in Worthing. So, for a total of £11, Dad had a new reading lamp as soon as I could put it together. His hospitalization gave me ample opportunity not only to pick up the globe, but to assemble the light.

 

I unpacked and began, wondering if it would be a shed-saga or closet-comfort style job....

 I found the base and pole an easy screw-in job and proceeded confidently. I soon had the top pole/head screwed in also and was happy to realize it would take less than ten minutes to complete.

I soon had the light completed and then placed it behind Dad's chair ready for him to return from hospital. Now, I just have to wait to see what he thinks of his new reading lamp when he gets home!

Dad's reading light 1

My father has complained for a long time about not being able to read properly. At the age of 88 years, this is hardly surprising. He wears reading glasses and has his eyesight checked annually and glasses ammended if needed. He had a wooden stand reading lamp, but was unable to get the light to shine in the correct position without glaring on the shiny pages of such as garden magazines. One solution was audio books, but Dad still missed reading his magazines.

Dad spotted an ad for reading lights with flexible heads in one of his magazines and decided to get me to investigate on his behalf. I knew they would be over-priced, but obliged. I hinted heavily at checking for flexible reading lamps online. The brochure arrived sporting offers of £30 off - but all lights were a minimum of £250! No, no, NO, I thought!

Sure enough, online investigations allowed Dad to find plenty of lower-priced choices - most in the £30-120 price range. I hinted and encouraged him to opt on a £10 option. He finally agreed and it has arrived! Another self-assembly job on my hands!

The Bed....

I was fed up of my bed. The top mattress was fine, if a little frayed, but it perched upon a smaller mattress below. This was not so fine. 

 

Everynight, the top mattress would slide position and tilt on top of the bottom one. Sometimes I would fall one way, sometimes the other. I often felt I was about to roll right out of the bed. It was simply uncomfy.

 

The remedy was to remove the bottom mattress, revealing my artsy decor'd self-made bed, insert a blanket, and place the main mattress on top of that. 

 

Hopefully this will suffice to allow me not to topple sideways or feel as if I am falling to the floor if I roll over in the night.

 

So far, so good.....

The new cleaning closet - 5

The contents of the cleaning closet could hardly stay on the kitchen floor forever - so as I had begun, I must complete my task within the hour in order to allow enough time to cook lunch.

 

I managed to tug at the cabinet - and thankfully it simply dragged away from the wall. I then had the task of dismantling it - however, I decided to offer it to my father as a patio stand to save myself the trouble. He agreed to have extra shwelving to put pot plants on, and I dragged the dirty thing out into the yard and left it on the patio. This left me a dirty corner to clean, so I cleaned it.

 

This left me the task of bringing the cabinet into position - and filling it up. We then had a shiny new cleaning closet in the kitchen - and 4 spare screws/8 unneeded wooden rawplugs!