~*~ February Flowers 2014! ~ 37 Babies Have Arrived! ~*

[ksilme]

Meh Not sure what is happening now Been and paid the rent and took photos and explained to the estate agent who deals with everything for the landlord (he is good as gold though) and his response without looking at the photos was simply ' shit!!'

I have had to email the photos to him, to forward onto the landlord but may well be subsidence - now worrying that they will move us out with five and a half weeks to go x

It shouldn't be that much of work that they need to move you out. Should only take a day to fix!!

Really? Started noticing loads of stuff now

How do they even fix it? The floor was slanted slightly anyway, but it is worse now, our bedroom door wont shut properly, last night I shut it and it popped itself open during the night and woke me up and you can see into the bedroom from the hallway through the gap at the top of the door xx

 

[allforthegirl]

Do you have a basement or are you on a flat? There are many ways they can fix things when a floor is slanted. I guess it depends on how badly it is slanted. Our floor is too, but that again normal for our area. If it is just a slight slant then it is just readjusting the doors and such, if it is a large slant then they may need to jack up a corner of the house.

 

[Katiie]

Gosh that sounds awful.
Even if they moved you moving at 5 weeks to go is easy.
We moved when I was 3 weeks to go, set up the whole nursery as soon as the new carpets down.

It's stressful though.
Big hugs. I hope it doesn't come to that.

I ordered a new washing airer !! So when that arrives I'm gonna start washing baby clothes. Eeeeeeeek!

 

[allforthegirl]

I had to look up 'washing airer' We don't really use those here, as we can't put clothing outside right now, they would just freeze. So we have to have an electric dryer.

 

[ksilme]

Ah well, guess we will find out soon enough, the estate agent cam and had a look, he really didn't seem too happy about it all, but I had emailed pics to him and he is forwarding them to the landlord so hopefully hear back early next week

We have a tumble dryer, but I acquired a clothes horse from work for baby clothes as would rather they dry naturally, well as naturally as possible, always find the dryer makes the clothes have that distinctive tumble dried smell lol, will probs start over weekend or next week xx seems crazy that we have so little time to go xx

 

[allforthegirl]

I hear you. I have two days and I will be two weeks away for me labour watching. I know he will be early, but not before 38 weeks and not making it to full term either. but I am taking a relaxed approach this time. well at least that is what I am going for, I am sure the closer I come the more uncomfortable I will be. Last night was not very fun at all!!

 

[Katiie]

We use clothes airer / clothes horses inside we have washing lines for outside.
If I put clothes outside they would never dry! especially today, I don't think the rain has stopped.

I can't afford a tumble dryer/dryer they are expensive to run too. We have a very strict budget.
Although it would mean more space! Luckily it doesn't take too long to dry.

I'm tired.

 

[ksilme]

We use clothes airer / clothes horses inside we have washing lines for outside.
If I put clothes outside they would never dry! especially today, I don't think the rain has stopped.

I can't afford a tumble dryer/dryer they are expensive to run too. We have a very strict budget.
Although it would mean more space! Luckily it doesn't take too long to dry.

I'm tired.

Lol we had to get a dryer in old flat as no heating so nothing ever dried here I think it will but so used to using dryer now :/


Aftg I reckon little zoey will keep us waiting and will be late, i reckon 17th, not sure why, that date just sticks out to me xx

 

[Katiie]

I want mine to come on valentines.
Or the end of January lol

 

[allforthegirl]

My birthday is on the 15th of Feb, and I hate it!! I always get the one gift instead of two. It really sucks!!

 

[3xBlessed]

I'm hoping for a Valentine's baby as well! There are so many February birthdays in our families and I want her to have her own day. So that means she can't come the 1, 4, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16 or 17. Lol. My doctors won't let me go past the 16th anyway bc my babies are pretty big so I know I'll be induced before then. Hoping she comes on her own bc I was induced with my first and it wasn't fun.

 

[allforthegirl]

Being induced is so very hard on your body!! I really want this one to come on his own, like my other two that were aloud to do so. (other two were induced early do to medical reasons)

 

[ksilme]

Do you have a basement or are you on a flat? There are many ways they can fix things when a floor is slanted. I guess it depends on how badly it is slanted. Our floor is too, but that again normal for our area. If it is just a slight slant then it is just readjusting the doors and such, if it is a large slant then they may need to jack up a corner of the house.

just saw this, we are in a bungalow, but the bungalow is raised above the ground by quite a bit, we are on a hill and the black part at the bottom is all built up and that is where our floor starts, but the bedroom door frame seems to be slanted as if this front part of the house is rising, or indeed the back is sinking, and the front room floor dips in the middle, the back of the house is where it slants down, but the slant has got quite a lot worse x


I was originally due on valentines - which is my dad's birthday
my grandads birthday is the 15th, don't want her to share a birthday either really, especially with my grandad lol
he is a nasty piece of work, made my mum and aunties lives hell when they were younger, just one instance was my mums rabbit died and he forced her to put it in the bin, she was only 7 or 8 I think, she is now petrified of anything dead, we have had cats which got run over, and my nan has had to identify them and bury them, because my physically can't make herself go near them. There are plenty of other things he did to mess their heads up too
I don't like him, because he always seemed to 'pick' on me, and be horrible, I remember the day before my 7th birthday, I was staying at their house with my cousin, who would have been 4 and I was reading to her, he came up and told me to 'shut up talking you stupid little bitch' luckily my mum was only over the road at home, so I made an excuse I wanted to get something from my house and my nan watched me across the road and I went and cried to mum, and I don't think I have spoken to him since, if I have, it's very rarely, he sent me a birthday card one year addressed to 'the fat bitch at no. 22' I was 12 or 13, no where near over weight and very hurt and upset. I didn't even invite him to my wedding, and he claimed he didn't go because he had no shoes, as I said, he didn't go because he didn't have a a bloody invite lol.

Anyways, that was a bit of a tangent, oops, they are the only two feb bdays in our family, everyone is july or october and a few scattered in later months but hardly anyone in feb
I don't really mind when she comes, would like her to be a little early, or on time as I can't wait to meet her, but think she will be late xx

 

[allforthegirl]

Well then the foundation that it is sitting on is either sinking or rising and that needs to be dealt with. So the foundation needs to be reinforced. So depending what is under the foundation, is depending on how long to hard it will to fix it. So maybe in the end they will move you, but a better thing if things are in a bad place. I am sure regardless of the stress of it you would want to be in a more stable built home!

Some people just really don't get it…..you don't need people like that in your life.

 

[ksilme]

Well then the foundation that it is sitting on is either sinking or rising and that needs to be dealt with. So the foundation needs to be reinforced. So depending what is under the foundation, is depending on how long to hard it will to fix it. So maybe in the end they will move you, but a better thing if things are in a bad place. I am sure regardless of the stress of it you would want to be in a more stable built home!

Some people just really don't get it…..you don't need people like that in your life.

I know, I was up panicking in the night, but said to hubby, I just want everything to be safe and perfect for baby, will have to wait and see I spose hopefully it can be easily fixed, and if not, hopefully they will do something sooner rather than later, I am sure they will, the estate agent is fab, he gets stuff done straight away xx

He is one person nobody wants in their life xx

 

[Katiie]

Gosh your grandad sounds awful!!!

 

[ksilme]

He is our family is so big and so close but nobody has anything to do with him because everyone knows what he is like
He will have nothing to do with zoey x

 

[Likklegemz]

Oh my, your granddad sounds awful! My granddad was lovely. He died two years ago after a rather awful two weeks in hospital on my birthday of all days. His birthday is on the 6th so I kinda hope I go early, as I think it would be awesome if our lo could share a birthday with him. I did jokingly say to hubby that if baby comes on valentines day and is a girl, when she's old she'll hate us, with one set of presents! Lol! All for, that's similar to my brother, his birthday is Christmas Day!

Mama bear I know what you mean about going crazy, I'm driving everyone up the wall. The nursery is practically done so that doesn't leave me much to do in hit here until the furniture and pram etc. arrives next Friday. I've not bought that many clothes as I'm bored of yellow, cream and white. I also had a mini panic attack over what I actually need in terms of dressing baby, how many baby grows,vests etc should I have for the first few weeks?

Katie, I didn't get on to that fact! I'm 35 weeks Monday! I'm getting really excited but apprehensive since we did the walk through round the maternity ward. With your mould problem I'd be on the phone to your housing association and complain, that's no kind of condition you should have to put up with, particularly as a baby's on its way and you already have a little one.

Kslime sorry if this has been answered but could possibly help given that half my family is in the building trade and I renovated my house. Are you windows aluminium? They're known to cause damp and short of replacing them there isn't much you can do other than keep on top of cleaning. If they're wooden ones, check for rot - you can get some good paint that should help stop the rot (if it exists) from going worse, it's unlikely to occur with UPVC windows thou. Check around the windows to see if the cement and bondings coming away as that might need replacing.

Cracks can be cosmetic and nothing to worry about, but if your really concerned, go round or get oh to go round on hands and knees to see if the floorboards and the skirting boards are lined up, only if there is a gap and its a large gap that's not equal in all places indicate structural movement - in that case my best piece of advice is to get a structural engineer, but as you rent I'd seriously consider moving. What they would do is underpin the house. We've gone through this in our previous property and it's not too bad! Finally if your front door is wood - warping particularly at this time of the year is very common as it's probably getting wet and being exposed to your central heating and has expanded.

I've still got terrible indegstion, wish I could take something that would sort it once and for good!

Love to all x x x

 

[Itsychik]

Hi ladies!

ksilme- you've gotten a bunch of really great answers about the potential house problem (way better than anything I would have come up with!) and I hope they figure it out and come up with a solution soon!

And your grandfather sounds really awful. So sorry you've had to put up with someone like that! Good for you for not inviting him to your wedding and good for you for not exposing Zoey to him!

I am definitely hoping our LO is NOT born on Valentine's Day! I'd like to avoid all holidays if possible! We actually 'planned' for February because there are hardly any birthdays in both our families/group of friends in that month. Only 1 birthday and that is my grandfather (his birthday is my due date). He'll be 91 this year, and he would be tickled if our LO shared his birthday (I think it'd be great, too!). And actually close friends of ours are also expecting 2 days after us, so we keep joking that we'll have our babies on the same day (although I hope not!)

And maybe it's a really stupid thing, but I have a 'thing' for even numbers... so I'm really hoping our LO arrives on an even-numbered-day!

 

[medic9114fun]

My birthday is on the 15th of Feb, and I hate it!! I always get the one gift instead of two. It really sucks!!

My birthday is 17th and baby due date is 13th. I had told hubby and dr if I go into labor on 17th I will cross my legs until 12:01 after my birthday lol.

And I know the feeling on 1 gift for both. Hubby sees it as a shortcut lol