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turpsYesterday was a lot of little annoyances.
The rain had been relentless all the night before, and as I was seeing James off to work I noticed we had a leak near the front door. I only noticed because the floor was wet at the side where we have the cat scratch mat. Initially I was going to blame a cat, then noticed the drips coming from the ceiling. I was worried it was coming from Corey's bedroom, but after looking outside worked out it was under the flat roof that sticks out for the hallway. Thankfully it stopped and there was no damage apart from some discolouring of a patch of wallpaper where the water was coming in. But seriously, come on now house, stop going wrong all at once.
Yesterday was oven cleaning day. It wasn't especially dirty but I wanted to keep on top of it, especially as it's been getting harder to see through the glass door. So I bought one of those scary kits that come along with warnings to always wear gloves while handling the cleaning fluid and to check the soaking bag in case of leaks. I did that, put the racks in the soaking bags, to you know, soak, squirted the rest of the fluid in the oven and left it for the stated six hours.
In that time I was waiting for someone who wanted to buy something we'd put up on a selling site, but he never turned up.
Hours tick on, I wander in the kitchen and see a pool of something under the washer and think, noooo, not a washer leak again. Then notice it is in fact the soaking bag that's sprung a leak and there's now greasy, youmustweargloveswhiletouchthis fluid down the washer and on the floor. All I can think is one of the racks must have torn the bag somehow as I did make sure to test it was liquid tight.
Without thinking I shove the bag in the sink and start mopping stuff up with kitchen roll without putting on gloves. Thankfully my hands didn't instantly dissolve, but man, they're so dry. I'm using hand cream over and over atm. Yes, it was daft but all I could think was, my washer! My floor!
That dealt with I figured I might as well clean the racks and inside of the oven, and they cleaned up nicely. But while I was in front of the oven I realised you could actually take the glass out of the door and clean it that way. And once I'd done that the glass was beautiful and shiny and I could see inside perfectly. Which suggests I never actually needed a cleaning kit at all. It did take a while to work out how to put the glass back securely, the answer being, you need to use brute force to jam the holder thing back on, and at one point was sat on the floor with the glass out of the door in front of me, damp towels around me, grimy water splashed everywhere and thought, what the hell have I done? But I put it all right and now have a shiny oven and door and all is well.
The boiler also got its service on Thursday which is great, and the guy offered to check all the radiators too. Which was nice of him, and also made me glad I had tidied upstairs the other day as he went in all the rooms up there. Plus, he knocked £10 off the bill for some reason. So, result.
In non-domestic news, I don't know if anyone else watches but I've started to watch Schitt's Creek on Netflix. It's the perfect 20 minute easy watching comedy that doesn't take much brain power to follow. I'm only in the first half of season one so have three and a bit to go, so that's something to look forward to.
The rain had been relentless all the night before, and as I was seeing James off to work I noticed we had a leak near the front door. I only noticed because the floor was wet at the side where we have the cat scratch mat. Initially I was going to blame a cat, then noticed the drips coming from the ceiling. I was worried it was coming from Corey's bedroom, but after looking outside worked out it was under the flat roof that sticks out for the hallway. Thankfully it stopped and there was no damage apart from some discolouring of a patch of wallpaper where the water was coming in. But seriously, come on now house, stop going wrong all at once.
Yesterday was oven cleaning day. It wasn't especially dirty but I wanted to keep on top of it, especially as it's been getting harder to see through the glass door. So I bought one of those scary kits that come along with warnings to always wear gloves while handling the cleaning fluid and to check the soaking bag in case of leaks. I did that, put the racks in the soaking bags, to you know, soak, squirted the rest of the fluid in the oven and left it for the stated six hours.
In that time I was waiting for someone who wanted to buy something we'd put up on a selling site, but he never turned up.
Hours tick on, I wander in the kitchen and see a pool of something under the washer and think, noooo, not a washer leak again. Then notice it is in fact the soaking bag that's sprung a leak and there's now greasy, youmustweargloveswhiletouchthis fluid down the washer and on the floor. All I can think is one of the racks must have torn the bag somehow as I did make sure to test it was liquid tight.
Without thinking I shove the bag in the sink and start mopping stuff up with kitchen roll without putting on gloves. Thankfully my hands didn't instantly dissolve, but man, they're so dry. I'm using hand cream over and over atm. Yes, it was daft but all I could think was, my washer! My floor!
That dealt with I figured I might as well clean the racks and inside of the oven, and they cleaned up nicely. But while I was in front of the oven I realised you could actually take the glass out of the door and clean it that way. And once I'd done that the glass was beautiful and shiny and I could see inside perfectly. Which suggests I never actually needed a cleaning kit at all. It did take a while to work out how to put the glass back securely, the answer being, you need to use brute force to jam the holder thing back on, and at one point was sat on the floor with the glass out of the door in front of me, damp towels around me, grimy water splashed everywhere and thought, what the hell have I done? But I put it all right and now have a shiny oven and door and all is well.
The boiler also got its service on Thursday which is great, and the guy offered to check all the radiators too. Which was nice of him, and also made me glad I had tidied upstairs the other day as he went in all the rooms up there. Plus, he knocked £10 off the bill for some reason. So, result.
In non-domestic news, I don't know if anyone else watches but I've started to watch Schitt's Creek on Netflix. It's the perfect 20 minute easy watching comedy that doesn't take much brain power to follow. I'm only in the first half of season one so have three and a bit to go, so that's something to look forward to.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:45 pm (UTC)They need to magically fix themselves, already.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:43 pm (UTC)Hopefully, they stay that way for a long time.
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Date: 2019-03-18 09:05 am (UTC)Damn, that’s crazy about the leaking mystery fluid, I hope your hands are ok. I’m glad you got the oven back together, I’d have thought what have I done too in that situation
I’ve not seen it, but I’ve heard of it. I’ll have to add it to my growing list of doom
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:42 pm (UTC)My hands are fine now, but man, I'd hate to touch that stuff neat. It was greasy when I touched it with crap off the over shelves, plus I was holding kitchen roll. No wonder they stress wearing gloves.
Ha, your growing to watch list of doom is getting as bad as mine.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:47 pm (UTC)I’m glad it’s ok now (it made me think of your fic where Mikey went overkill with the bleach and stuff💜)
It really is hee!
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Date: 2019-03-18 11:05 pm (UTC)Hopefully things pick up soon. Home ownership is such a hassle.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:40 pm (UTC)Home ownership is the worst sometimes.
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Date: 2019-03-18 11:33 pm (UTC)...You can take the glass out of (some?) oven doors? REVELATION. I shall be experimenting with this.... sometime soon. Thank you for the brain-expansion! :D
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:39 pm (UTC)I hope you can get yours sorted soon.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that didn't know you could take the glass out of some doors. And I'm assuming some as Turlough just said she couldn't remove hers. But loads you can, as I found out when I was frantically Googling videos of how to put back oven door glass *g*
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Date: 2019-03-19 08:42 pm (UTC)Ugh, what an awful thing to have to deal with! But now you have me wishing my oven glass were removable too. It would make it so much easier to clean.
Some good news at last - hooray for having had both the boiler and the radiators seen to!
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:37 pm (UTC)All oven glass should be removable imo. Once I worked out it could be removed it was really easy to clean the door because the inside bits were okay.
The boiler is working perfectly, radiators too. So, hopefully, no more issues with them.