I HATE MESS.

[JoceAndChris]

Here is a thread for anyone who'd like to join me in moaning about mess.

On Saturday the house was clean and tidy, the tools in their proper places, the bedroom finished, the soft aromas of woodsmoke and Diptyque candles wafting about. Now we have begun on the 12 elderly doors and chaos is resumed.

There is a thick layer of dust everywhere, doors that, alright, were dressed in hideous yellowed brilliant white are now stripping off indecently. One has been blistered with Nitromors, one has been palm sanded and now is white and buff spotted, one has a big hole from where dad tried to prise off a panel and realised it wasn't a panel , and one has a great unsanded splice sticking out. The workbench is back in the tripping over position.

I think in future I have to insist on a 2 month respite period between rooms.

 

[Louis Henry]

Well, perhaps it's just me, but I think a room looks much more homely with the beams held up by acrow props and a bucket of lime plaster in the corner. When you've finished the job you have to go around tidying and vacuuming and polishing. Where's the fun in that? I suppose it's a bloke thing.

 

[MdB]

It's not a mess. It is just having all tools in the right place ready for when needed next...
(well apart from the one you want of course)

 

[JoceAndChris]

I love tidying and vaccuuming and polishing. I hate buckets of lime stuff and grimy overalls in a heap.

MdB - is that your house? :shock: :shock: :shock: But as long as you are happy!

 

[MdB]

I love tidying and vaccuuming and polishing.

You can come and stay for a week whenever you like :wink:

 

[Moo]

Same here!

I aspire to clean, tidy and shiny. And I do get a certain satisfaction from making order out of chaos - once. But the thought of keeping it spruce and shiny brings on an acute attack of displacement activity.

 

[JoceAndChris]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Each to their own!

I may have to do a grand tour of the country at some point with my polishing cloths: Somerset, Wales, Cornwall, and come and laugh at all you lovely men in the midst of your terrible chaos.

 

[Penners]

It's not a mess. It is just having all tools in the right place ready for when needed next...

That could have been me, speaking very patiently to HID. But the word "mess" seems to have two entirely different meanings, depending on your gender.

Joce - if you think that stripping doors is messy, you should try drilling a number holes for pipework through brick walls. The resulting dust seems to have the ability to scuttle away and hide when you bring out the vacuum cleaner, breed in a corner and then sneak back in far greater quantities to the place that you've just vacuumed.

Just keep reciting the Penners mantra: "It's all progress... OUCH!" *





* Mrs P has now heard me chant this so often that she now just lashes out.

 

[Flyfisher]

Surely 'mess' is just an issue of definition, just like 'weeds' really.

Besides, chaos (a fancy name for mess) is the natural order of things and it takes considerable energy to impose order on it.

 

[Feltwell]

Surely 'mess' is just an issue of definition, just like 'weeds' really.

Besides, chaos (a fancy name for mess) is the natural order of things and it takes considerable energy to impose order on it.

An excellent definition Mr FF - but you are omitting the "relativity" aspect. I may consider a room to be messy, but I can guarentee that within 5 minutes of my 2 small offspring being present the definition of what is a "mess" has moved on considerably.......

Has anyone considered Lego an instrument of torture? No? Try standing on the bloody stuff at 3am, barefoot, when your kids wake up with a bad dream.

 

[robgil]

no getting away from it for me atm.
and if you think this is bad , you want to see my garden.

 

[Jill]

Well, perhaps it's just me, but I think a room looks much more homely with the beams held up by acrow props

I'm going to be lost this Christmas with out my acro props - where am I going to to put the tinsel. For the past three years we've had acro props up - they became part of the furniture and just blended in after a while. I've discovered I quite like sweeping up as I find it relaxing. Must admit I am quite looking forward to having less dust/rubble about though so that I can have white dish cloths again.

 

[Jill]

no getting away from it for me atm.
and if you think this is bad , you want to see my garden.

Snap - thought you had posted one of my photos for a mo. Been there, done that, shoveled it all up and loved every minute of it.

 

[robgil]

i removed a 2 meter asbestos flue from one of the fire places on the week end and some asbestos register plates , i had to first wet everything down including many years of soot before and during removal. so , i am on a hop up inside this chimney with a spray adaptor on a hose pipe soaking down soot which is surprisingly water proof when i looked down and saw a black swimming pool beneath me , i had covered the mouth of the fire place with plastic sheeting to try and stop dust but a black river basically flooded out onto the dining room floor. now that was messy.
i had to hose my self down in the garden afterwards both before and after i removed my ppe gear.
i suppose mess does mean progress though so its not all bad.

 

[robgil]

double post , sorry.

 

[Flyfisher]

Has anyone considered Lego an instrument of torture? No? Try standing on the bloody stuff at 3am, barefoot, when your kids wake up with a bad dream.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Oh yes! That brought back the sort of memories that only become 'fond memories' after the passage of a considerable number of years has dulled the recollection of the pain, and profanity, at the time.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Has anyone considered Lego an instrument of torture? No? Try standing on the bloody stuff at 3am, barefoot, when your kids wake up with a bad dream.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Oh yes! That brought back the sort of memories that only become 'fond memories' after the passage of a considerable number of years has dulled the recollection of the pain, and profanity, at the time.

Try Bayko :shock:

 

[MdB]

no getting away from it for me atm.
and if you think this is bad , you want to see my garden.

I see your pile of rubble and raise you a bigger pile (in the dinning room).

See what you have started here Joce, it is now a competition to see who can post the picture of the worst (best) mess (work in progress)...

 

[robgil]

lol , thank you , that cheered me up.
but i guess i either have to try harder or buy a bigger house.

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Absolutely sympathise with you Joce, and everybody has described something that we've all been through at some time or other. I smiled at Penners commenting about drilling holes for the heating pipesto be laid; our latest escapade was when 'im indoors' drilled a hole for the 'posh' loo roll holder in the placcy easipanel on our bathroom wall. I heard a very bad word and rushed up to find him with a screwdriver in the hole and a fantastic fountain of water spraying everywhere. After turning off the drill we had a good clear up, result, lovely clean floor and a bill for £94 for the local plumber to come and mend the pipe.