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[waider]

Ok, I've had a look around the area the prospective new house is in. No obvious "for let" signs, so I wasn't able to identify the exact house, but the potentials look reasonable. The houses look old enough to have been built with solid walls as opposed to whatever excuse for inter-house partitioning they use in a lot of places these days. There are no obvious boy-racer or banger cars, so that's good; plenty parking space; reasonably well connected in terms of routes to work and elsewhere. The front doors in the area are a bit ratty, but if I care enough about that I'm sure a dousing with paint would fix it. The advert says there's a patio and a rear garden, which means somewhere to leave the bike. Gas fire in the main room - yay! I love gas fires; all the benefits of an open fire with none of the hassle of a turf, coal or wood fire. Electric shower, which I've not had in any accomodation since, hmm. College. The only slight glitch is that the bedrooms are singles, and I've got a double futon. I may have to abandon it, or store it until further notice, depending on the dimensions of the rooms.

Ok, I'm already talking like I'm gonna move in. I still need to look the place over.

Comments

[fredfred.livejournal.com]

What is an electric shower? To these ears, it sounds dangerous. You're soaping your jewels, and zap.

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

I was about to ask the exact same thing, minus the jewels.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

It's an appliance usu. wall mounted in the shower that turns cold water into hot. It is cheaper than a hot water heater because you don't have to keep a supply of hot water around constantly in case you want to take a shower and is also used (locality circa here) for refitting older houses that don't have hot water.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, you canadians... it's a cold water pipe going into an electric unit which uses a thermostat-controlled mini-boiler to provide an instant hot shower. Normally supplied with a pump also to increase the water pressure. It's also an excuse for people like Argos to put naked people in their catalogue, although they seem to have cut that back a little lately. This is one of their fine, fine electric showers, for reference.

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

I'm also reminded that it never got cold enough for a fire while I was visiting, so I never found out what turf fires are like.

Guess I'll have to come back sometime.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Ooh, they have those for boats, although with diesel or propane burners providing the heat.

Nifty-keen.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

There's no naked people on that page. Please URL another.

[waider.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Here you go: 1, 2, 3, and one for the ladies (or gents, as appropriate), 4.

[merde.livejournal.com]

the very idea of a bedroom too small to contain a double futon boggles the American mind. here one occasionally finds a bedroom too small for a king-size to reasonably fit, in really old buildings.

you european types are wacky.

[waider.livejournal.com]

you european types are wacky.

That we are. Dammit. And mighty proud of it, too.