Other What's ruining your life right now?

Did they not let you know when the builder was coming, how are you supposed to make arrangements if you don't know.

At least on the plus side they are making repairs.

 

At least they are making repairs, my brother is in a heated debate/argument at the moment with his landlord since a crack has developed from just below the roof down to the footing of the house and is slowly over time getting wider.

A friend of ours who is a builder has basically said that the ground is collapsing slowly under the house, and will need to be dealt with and then the whole wall rebuilding.

His landlord as most would understand is not to happy about this as it's been quoted as costing almost as much as the house is worth and is reluctant to do it but is also still asking for rent etc.

Either way he is not to happy and is looking for a new place to move to.

 

He could ask the local authority to perform a health and safety review of the property.

If they find the repairs are urgent, they will either put an order to the landlord to make the repairs or do the repairs themselves and charge the owner back.

That basically happened at my place, with a damp kitchen issue.

 

Yeah this has been going on for about 3 months now, and whilst his landlord was decent before this happened, they are currently trying to get out of this and are trying to say it's down to the council to fix it and not the owner of the house.

 

It's the landlord's house, so subsidence is the landlord's responsibility.
If it was the council's, no-one would have to insure against it!

 

The builder left a note saying he would be here between date and date and that’s not enough we have kids, we work, and generally are really busy people.

He also mentioned how the landlady who previously lived here herself never made repairs to the property for 5 years and just skimps on everything. Our doors were falling apart because there basically doors made of damn paper it took them 5 months to replace a damn £20 door in which they reused the old knackered door handles. But what do you expect when you don’t keep on top of things?

The back door wouldn’t lock so my partner told the landlady in which she said “pass the phone to the builder stood directly next to her and said “it’s their fault and they have to pay for it” when in reality the builder had already taken the door apart and told us the door was missing a vent or something for water so basically just rotted the metal beam inside the door causing it to malfunction.

Repairs and fixing the property isn’t the issue i have though, what i do have an issue with is the landlady shouting down the phone at my partner and nearly bringing her to tears because she feels she’s superior when we’ve been nothing but good tenants.

So the builder arrives this morning, i greet him and he says he’s going to fix the back door then he tells us he’s going for parts and low and behold 6 hours later he’s still not here.

Another thing is on the 1st of October 2015 new legislation came in saying private landlords must fit a fire alarm on every floor, C02 Alarms, and alarms must be tested and working on every new tenancy… (we don’t have any alarms)

We've been thinking about moving to another place anyway it was our plan for this year so guess we have a reason to start saving up and actually move now.

 

The view from my house right now.

SPRING! WHY U NO SPRUNG!?

 

Bloody hell!

We have a Simpsons skyline down here at the moment. It's been bloody lovely all day.

Yesterday was fooking strange though - Sun, snow, hail, sun, rain, hail, sun - pretty wild.

 

We had sun this morning. Then it got miserable and grey and rained a little. Then we had hail. Now we have sun again.

Go home weather, you're drunk.

 

Why not just contact him, or the landlord, to reschedule?

 

Abdominal wall hernia.

 

One of my closest friends for a long time has become a complete bitch over the last few months. I've regretfully had come to the conclusion that I simply can't be friends with her any longer. She isn't the person I was friends with anymore.

 

Sitting here just about to start up battlefront for a little fun and my webcam light activates telling me it's active?

hello stranger??????????

 

My laptop hard drive was making noise like it was going to fail any moment. OK, don't panic yet, but time to do something about it. Surf over to eBay and order a 256GB SSD and a copy of Win7 since mine has disappeared into one of the numerous boxes which contain my life. Drive and OS are supposed to be here Tuesday.

Drive shows up, OS doesn't ship until Tuesday from the other side of the country, but what they hey, the existing drive has quit making ominous noises.

While I'm waiting, do a little research on drive cloning options. Clonezilla looks good, download it and burn it to a disc. oops, wrong version. Download correct version and burn to disc.

Get home tonight, take a nap, wake up at 2am. Good time to work on the computer project. Drop in Clonezilla CD, boot from that, wait, wait, wait. OK, looks like it's working. plug in SSD, Clonezilla says no drive detected. Hmm. Whats that burning smell? Maybe the drive needs to be attached when Clonezilla boots. Reboot Clonezilla. What's that burning smell?

Pick up SSD. Ouch, that freaking thing is hot. Like melted spot on the case hot. Unplug SSD drive. WTF?

Sitting there staring at the disconnected Molex to SATA power cable in my hand. Wait, did I have the molex connector plugged in upside down? Is that even possible? Yup, the Molex is made of really soft plastic and despite being beveled, will happily fit together backwards with a normal amount of insertion force.

So, yeah, I just fried a brand new Sandisk 256GB SSD ($60 with expedited shipping) because I plugged the keyed molex connector in backwards. FML

 

If it's anything like Scotland then it must be a linked (wireless is fine) mains operated system with battery backup. There must be a smoke detector & alarm within 3m of all bedroom doors, and in the "principle living area", there must be a heat detector and alarm in the kitchen, and CO detector(s) and alarm(s) situated between (if I remember correctly) 2 and 5 meters of every ignition source. That's the domestic regs. Non-domestic puts an alarm+detector in every bedroom and every vertical circulation space...

 

I should be doing work, instead I've spent most of the day correcting/editing Wikipedia and Google Maps...

 

That's professional class procrastination.

 

Not my life being ruined but my dad's. He and I arrived home to find that his brand new car he's had only two weeks has rolled down the road and crashed into a parked Fiesta.

 

I was sure this was going to end with your hdd dying before you got it cloned, but maybe it still could...

 

****ing plumbing/washing machine.

G/f calls me downstairs this morning cos there's water pissing out from the bottom of the washing machine door, with the machine drum completely full of water. I'm currently trying to drain the ****er with the drain pipe emptying into a shallow tray on the floor - anything higher and I can't get any flow to come out of the pipe, so it's taking forever and I'm meant to be working. Drum is still half full now.

I think we must have a faulty valve cos we keep getting these occasional incidents where we open the washing machine not knowing its full of water. Most of the time everything is fine, but that just makes it more likely that we're not prepared for the flood when it happens and catches us out. That has combined with a slightly dodgy door seal ever since I had to replace the door latch a few months back. It has never leakes under normal use but clearly couldn't handle the pressure from a full drum of water.

I ****ing hate water.