Woodland Alliance strikes again

Well, we've discovered one reason why the washing machine (see previous
posts) has been playing up.

Bloody mice have gnawed away the insulation on the wiring.

Needless to say, the cat is as much use as a perforated condom. We've
threatened it with the Oxfam shop if it doesn't do its stuff.

The wiring runs under the kitchen floor.

The real problem here is that the bodger we bought the place from relaid
the kitchen floor by putting new planks down, crosswise on top of the
old ones.

At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the top layer goes like
this:

||||||||

And underneath, the planks run

_
_
_
_

So, to lift *one* floorboard from the lower layer means the entire
kitchen floor has to come up. because he put the kitchen units, gas
cooker, oven, etc on top of his double floor, that means they have to
come up too.

In short, to lift one floorboard, the entire kitchen has to be removed.

Argh. Right now, insulation tape is bodging things.

The alternative, whichy I daresay we'll do, is to chop the entire power
supply to the kitchen, and lay a new ring main at floor level, in
conduits.

<Thinks>

Timo, did you ever own the Chateau? In a past life?

I am now pissed.


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"The Older Gentleman" <chateau.murray.takethisout.DeleteThis@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in
message
news:1i6ghor.1qlzq3t9z06hmN%chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com...
> Well, we've discovered one reason why the washing machine (see previous
> posts) has been playing up.
>
> Bloody mice have gnawed away the insulation on the wiring.
>
> Needless to say, the cat is as much use as a perforated condom. We've
> threatened it with the Oxfam shop if it doesn't do its stuff.
>
> The wiring runs under the kitchen floor.
>
> The real problem here is that the bodger we bought the place from relaid
> the kitchen floor by putting new planks down, crosswise on top of the
> old ones.
>
> At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the top layer goes like
> this:
>
> ||||||||
>
> And underneath, the planks run
>
> _
> _
> _
> _
>
> So, to lift *one* floorboard from the lower layer means the entire
> kitchen floor has to come up. because he put the kitchen units, gas
> cooker, oven, etc on top of his double floor, that means they have to
> come up too.
>
> In short, to lift one floorboard, the entire kitchen has to be removed.
>
> Argh. Right now, insulation tape is bodging things.
>
> The alternative, whichy I daresay we'll do, is to chop the entire power
> supply to the kitchen, and lay a new ring main at floor level, in
> conduits.

You get stuck for a *proper* sparky, email me. Will work for beer.

> <Thinks>
>
> Timo, did you ever own the Chateau? In a past life?
>
> I am now pissed.
>
*ding*. (but not when working obviously guvnor)....<arf, arf ,arf
.....snigger>

JB