Pet Peeves

[livingabortion]

Fuck that that must be horrible.  I'll take the Irish summer thankfully over that.

[Caomhaoin]

Just getting over the vaccine flu and I've gotten a whopper of a toothache this evening.

Dental pain has to be up there with the most irritating ailments going, there is no respite until you get s filling or a root canal. I'm already overdosing on the ibuprofen and it's doing nothing. No sleep for the big lad, even though there's some welcome rain and wind out. Fuck sake!

[Carnage]

My ears are still blocked (and one is getting sore now) and the earliest I can get a doctor's appointment is the 29th. Pissflaps.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Three leaks inside the house sprung during the storm last night. It was only a matter of time before the too-good-to-be-true house we found to rent a few months ago revealed a dark side 

[Kurt Cocaine]

Three leaks inside the house sprung during the storm last night. It was only a matter of time before the too-good-to-be-true house we found to rent a few months ago revealed a dark side 

Ah shit man. Get that feckin landlord fixing everything up before Autumn comes. Hold rent back until he does...
The new house, does this mean you can receive post this October.? 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haha, you trying to woo (or should that be woo-woo?) me KC? 

Yeah, was onto the agency directly this morning anyway.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Haha, you trying to woo (or should that be woo-woo?) me KC? 

Yeah, was onto the agency directly this morning anyway.

It would be magic if I did... 

[ochoill]

Three leaks inside the house sprung during the storm last night. It was only a matter of time before the too-good-to-be-true house we found to rent a few months ago revealed a dark side 

Some pain alright.  The gaff we bought a few years back has some leaky spots but they are slow leaks.  It wasn't so bad at first but then got horrific after some stormy weather, paint and plaster cracking out of an extension wall.  Got a lad to redo the flat roof, which fixed some of it, but the two worst spots have continued on spreading into the wall.  Rendered one press unuseable from the damp.  Need to get another roofer in to figure it out but have a feeling I could be sinking a few k in for a decent fix and dread having to spend it.

[livingabortion]

Huge problem with pyrite in Ireland too https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-40313696.html

[Caomhaoin]

Shit going wrong with your house is to be expected but it's heartbreaking handing over the dough. Plumber due in again next week, I should really spend my time learning to DIY rather than the French for 'to shake down', which is ironically what this water Lego fucker will be doing to me.

[StoutAndAle]

The Pyrite thing is serious and troubling but you can be sure that the insurance companies will spin this into even more flahing of the consumer soon enough.

In Cork, there's an issue of subsidence in certain areas of the city including where I live. It makes it almost impossible to get a reasonable quote on house insurance even if you can show that your house has been underpinned, new drains, flush tested to within an inch of it's life and a signed report from a structural engineer that the house has note sagged an inch in the following 10 years.

I had a call with one of these insurance clowns the year before last.

"So yeah, Mr Stout. the best renewal that I can get with the subsidence insurance is €1750"

"That's about 800 quid more than last year"

"Yeah... Subsidence though"

"But I sent in all the certs and stuff from the engineer who I had to pay to look at it as per your request to see if we could get the premium price lowered"

"Yeah but in my opinion it's still a risk"

"And in my opinion, it's not"

"Yes I understand that. But you see - this is in my professional opinion, Mr. Stout...."

"What does it say in my file as to what my profession is?"

"Em... engineer"

"Okay"

"But you see subsidence can strike at any time"

"Like a cobra?"

"Em... I... eh... we could offer you contents only insurance?"

"How much is contents only insurance?"

"Three hundre...."

"Do that"

[livingabortion]

The Pyrite thing is serious and troubling but you can be sure that the insurance companies will spin this into even more flahing of the consumer soon enough.

In Cork, there's an issue of subsidence in certain areas of the city including where I live. It makes it almost impossible to get a reasonable quote on house insurance even if you can show that your house has been underpinned, new drains, flush tested to within an inch of it's life and a signed report from a structural engineer that the house has note sagged an inch in the following 10 years.

I had a call with one of these insurance clowns the year before last.

"So yeah, Mr Stout. the best renewal that I can get with the subsidence insurance is €1750"

"That's about 800 quid more than last year"

"Yeah... Subsidence though"

"But I sent in all the certs and stuff from the engineer who I had to pay to look at it as per your request to see if we could get the premium price lowered"

"Yeah but in my opinion it's still a risk"

"And in my opinion, it's not"

"Yes I understand that. But you see - this is in my professional opinion, Mr. Stout...."

"What does it say in my file as to what my profession is?"

"Em... engineer"

"Okay"

"But you see subsidence can strike at any time"

"Like a cobra?"

"Em... I... eh... we could offer you contents only insurance?"

"How much is contents only insurance?"

"Three hundre...."

"Do that"

Shower of slimy Bastards. They don't care, charge you the highest and give you the least.

[Carnage]

Being this old: halfway up the stairs before realising that I forgot the thing I was meant to bring up, but going to the top anyway because fuck it. Might not make it next time.

[Trev]

The bit of hot weather is great, the poxy hayfever that goes with it is a cunt

[livingabortion]

Being this old: halfway up the stairs before realising that I forgot the thing I was meant to bring up, but going to the top anyway because fuck it. Might not make it next time.

That's a bollocks. I hope I haven't got to the stage of stopping half way up and thinking, "Am I going up or down", just yet. Having said that thoughts can be transient.