it's wet and rainy today one of the first days we've had that feels like
autumn a few days ago i foraged a full bowl of apples so i'm going to make a crumble
so
stage
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got a new floor here um we're getting a new floor
it's quite thick i think it's thicker than our old one and this time we've got some insulation we're
having to get a proportion of our floor replaced well the affected area is approximately what
four meters maybe just the back end basically someone replaced it with chipboard at one point
the rest of it is ply as it should be or marine grade ply so yeah we're having to do that but
we thought we might as well change the lino on top rather than having half half the kitchen and
living room in one color and the other in another so we ended up having to change the whole lot but
does give us a chance to get some insulation in which be very much appreciated before winter
so it's eight o'clock now saturday and the builders are coming tomorrow at eight at eight
so um we've just had dinner and made enough food for tomorrow dinner as well
so the job is now to take as much as we can from the kitchen
clear all of that stuff and tomorrow morning we're gonna do we're going to clear out the cupboards
yeah i'm going to clear out all the food yeah because we've got to be able to just
move um we'll have as much space we've got to replace the whole floor but inevitably we're going
to have the sofa here and the kitchen units i don't think we're going to be able to get them out
so we'll have to see how it goes so we're not looking forward to it but what we're motivated by
is that it's only going to be one day of jobs so we're going to be in the
building side for just one day can you replace your floor in one day well well
yeah okay under this is quite overwhelming we don't know where to start
um yeah just slowly taking one thing at a time into the bedroom
make a good desk yeah
good no that's from this i think yeah i think that's from here so we can fix that
yeah you got it yep you got it oh no no i didn't get it it was longer than i expected
keep going keep going keep going keep going how's the color looking it looks kind of light as well
it kind of matches the uh the surface of the kitchen
i'm putting this one in the bedroom oh okay we needed help with this project so the work is being
done by martin and james who reassured us that they can do it in one day the repairs have started
we've just emptied all the kitchen i've taken all the units out the floor is coming out and um
mars and i just gonna be taking the old floor and all the trash back to the bins and then really
excited to start laying the new floor down there's a canoe race today um we had a marshall coming
tell us all about it it was a nice laminated piece of paper and with all the timings and information
that i've not read so maybe i should have done my homework i've read it the race is between
maple durham and whit church locks um i think it's all day and we were invited to cheer everyone on
which we will
we've been cheering people the wrong way around so they were actually going to the start and we were
cheering them on and it was so quiet and silent we didn't know we've been told to cheer before we did
how bad does the flawless and the nature of the stage are going to be resting
it's a little bit rust in one of them it's not bad we're going to clear it all up and
sweep it up because some of the sections were made from chipboard after a few years
of us living on board it got soggy and expanded luckily it looks like only a
small section of the floor was done this way and the rest are made of proper ply
we've left the hard work to the professionals and
went to being queued to pick up a few extra bits that we decided on at the last moment
i think it's the same yeah there's just another one here that's quite similar
that's our essential heating
you happy yeah floor's coming on well martin and james are actually doing a
really thorough job really impressed um floor underneath um the metal floor is good it's
really good actually it's all been cleaned i've got a new inspection hatch coming yeah
all exciting things happening and the bins are gonna fit and the bins are gonna fit
they're a bit squidged before well we'll see we'll put a request in there so quick we're
probably actually probably doing it now we'll get back if we finished um no they're doing a
really good job in a really thorough job and they're making it look effortless as well so
yeah we've been putting this off for ages the floor has slowly been getting squidgy since
about may and i think a week or two ago it fell through didn't it yeah we we tried to put off diy
tests in summer just because it's so beautiful out here you just just want to enjoy it absolutely um
but we said when we go through it that's when it needs to do so we've
been stood on a scaffolding plank in the kitchen but yeah we should have
a party we should have a proper dance on it yeah bring your heaviest shoes
as all the hard work is being done for us we are spending the whole day outside
with not much to do marina which way the car is it is it that way where is it or is it that way
i play play the instrument i'm not asking around for a didgeridoo
and another use for it you can use it as a paparazzi lens
zoom in bring it down to the earth because you're showing no no unfortunately does it work we'll see
what the viewers think they might like it covered comes back as well you can have your safe space
standing in the key for the post office two meters apart
it's a missile
i couldn't even hold it
i will
the floor is coming along the liner is already down the first bit so uh we are very happy with
it already it looks absolutely amazing here it's all done we've done it all in one day
and by we obviously would mean the team we're so happy with martin and james who came in and just
bashed it in what like 10 hours really good so we ended up changing the liner for the whole
living space and kitchen and putting in under layer so it's nice and soft and
extra protected from the loss of heat what do you think oh i love it it looks so luxurious
yeah i think we've done well
we didn't do it james martin did it did a very good job very thorough job very happy i don't
think i mean we could have done it but it's a very big job not this well we wouldn't have done it
this well no absolutely not and not in one day and we didn't have the tools no we could probably done
it in two days but it wouldn't have been nowhere near as good as this time to put everything back
before it's dark because half the stuff is outside still um and then have have dinner
it's interesting how something that we were dreading for months turned out to be a quick fix
and we're so in love with our new gorgeous floor we're not even going to put any carpets down
for as long as possible some things in life seem big and scary and impossible to overcome
and we dread them and feel anxious and put them off for as long as possible but then
when you actually start doing something about it it turns into a very doable project
and not so scary after all and maybe maybe even enjoyable we had a pretty fun day entertaining
ourselves and getting to know martin's obsession with fishing it was a great day
hello you two you have a boyfriend now what's wrong with millet do you not want millet
you are eating it
you're full
you've got microbiome is going to love it
you're obsessed oh obsessed
not sharing outside yeah so i've given her a little bit of birds on top
and looks like she loves the oats much more than millet
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