November 19, 2023 • 4 mins
DIY Disasters!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So you know, a couple of weeks ago, I told
you that I'd bought a house, and I bought a
house before i'd sold one, and across the weekend, I
actually sold the big family home. And I was looking
to downsize because my kids are older than nineteen twenty
one and twenty three, and I was feeling like I
needed to start looking into the next part of my life.
And when I bought this particular house, and it came
up and it was a quick, quite a spontaneous decision.
(00:21):
My wonderful girlfriend, one of my besties, NeSSI said to me,
why don't you want an easy life.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You've bitten off a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, I've bitten off this massive renovation and I've never
done it before. And I guess there is a part
of my personality that is always challenging me and going, Okay,
so you haven't done it in the past doesn't mean
you can't do it now. And I did have a
moment of freaking out pretty soon after buying this property
where the boys sort of sat down with me and
I was like, just going, what have I done anyway?
(00:50):
They were going, mum will help you, Okay. I took
them to their word yep. And across the weekend, my
gorgeous twenty one year old Luin decided that he would
try and put in some insulation bats into the ceiling
of this beautiful one hundred and twenty year old workers cottage. Yes,
it seems quite simple.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It does seem reasonably, you.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Know, get up into the manhole, woman, whole person hole,
open up the bats, lay them down, make sure and
we've done the whole Let's go to Bunnings. Let's get
the full suit thing, the gloves, glasses because it's glass.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And I mentioned that you definitely need to turn the
power off.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yes, you told me that, you were saying to me,
which I'm glad to see. You don't know what you
don't know. And of course, you know, people in the
past have died from doing stuff up in rooms with insulation.
So we did all that and you know, got the ladder,
got up into the tiny person hole and started to
lay the bats. Now i'd said to him, please stay
on the beams if you put If you don't walk
(01:48):
on the beams, you're going to go through the room
because it's plaster. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What we didn't take into account is that the house
is so old and there is one most gorgeous pressed
metal ornate ceiling. Oh yeah, right in one room.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, we didn't take into account that there hasn't been
someone up there for a really long time, and just
the pure weight of his body on the beam has
forced the wall to come to no. No goes for it,
and not one but two ms.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No, because the beams are one hundred and twenty years old.
I didn't think about that, he would have.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know, no episodes of the Block are going to
help me with this that they're doing, you know, honestly.
And I was I'm not proud. I'm not proud. I
lost my little mind. And I thought he'd actually gone
through it like foot through. It isn't as bad because
the innate ornate ceiling like it looks like it can
just be like put up. And of course I did
(02:53):
that thing of you know, you're twenty one, you sort
it out. So he wrings his godfather, who's a Sicilian
builder by the name of Joe. So I get home
to witness what is actually unfolded. And you know, I
hadn't had a lot of sleep Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, that's true. After I will not out.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, so and there's Joe, and he was like, the
first thing he did was it's not that bad. It's
not that bad. It looks bad, it's not that bad.
We can sort it out.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, So they and they are they replacing beams?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
No? No, I mean I'm gonna have to find someone
to professionally lay the bats, I think, yeah, OK, and
then we're going to have to somehow jack that. I
don't know. I mean, it just looks so simple. And
you know, Google one, you know, Lewin's answer to everything
was like when I was losing my mind, he goes.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But mom, Hi Google. Yeah, Google and d YI have
been a terrible I mean, it's handy and it's also
a nightmare. Thirty one six five is our number if
you've got a DIY drama and it make.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Me feel better, particularly if your kid did it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And we've got some awesome I'll throw a little carrot
out there too. We've got some SQ one Audio Technica earbuds.
Wireless earbuds will be a great Christmas gift. So if
you tell us about your DIY.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What were all you know, we're all trying to save money, right, yeah,
interest rates are going up. Things are tough, how hard
can it be?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
How much money do you just say with those those
do it yourself that, yeah, not like thirty one sixty
five nothing actually
So you know, a couple of weeks ago, I told
you that I'd bought a house, and I bought a
house before i'd sold one, and across the weekend, I
actually sold the big family home. And I was looking
to downsize because my kids are older than nineteen twenty
one and twenty three, and I was feeling like I
needed to start looking into the next part of my life.
And when I bought this particular house, and it came
up and it was a quick, quite a spontaneous decision.
(00:21):
My wonderful girlfriend, one of my besties, NeSSI said to me,
why don't you want an easy life.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You've bitten off a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, I've bitten off this massive renovation and I've never
done it before. And I guess there is a part
of my personality that is always challenging me and going, Okay,
so you haven't done it in the past doesn't mean
you can't do it now. And I did have a
moment of freaking out pretty soon after buying this property
where the boys sort of sat down with me and
I was like, just going, what have I done anyway?
(00:50):
They were going, mum will help you, Okay. I took
them to their word yep. And across the weekend, my
gorgeous twenty one year old Luin decided that he would
try and put in some insulation bats into the ceiling
of this beautiful one hundred and twenty year old workers cottage. Yes,
it seems quite simple.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It does seem reasonably, you.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Know, get up into the manhole, woman, whole person hole,
open up the bats, lay them down, make sure and
we've done the whole Let's go to Bunnings. Let's get
the full suit thing, the gloves, glasses because it's glass.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And I mentioned that you definitely need to turn the
power off.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yes, you told me that, you were saying to me,
which I'm glad to see. You don't know what you
don't know. And of course, you know, people in the
past have died from doing stuff up in rooms with insulation.
So we did all that and you know, got the ladder,
got up into the tiny person hole and started to
lay the bats. Now i'd said to him, please stay
on the beams if you put If you don't walk
(01:48):
on the beams, you're going to go through the room
because it's plaster. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What we didn't take into account is that the house
is so old and there is one most gorgeous pressed
metal ornate ceiling. Oh yeah, right in one room.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, we didn't take into account that there hasn't been
someone up there for a really long time, and just
the pure weight of his body on the beam has
forced the wall to come to no. No goes for it,
and not one but two ms.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No, because the beams are one hundred and twenty years old.
I didn't think about that, he would have.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know, no episodes of the Block are going to
help me with this that they're doing, you know, honestly.
And I was I'm not proud. I'm not proud. I
lost my little mind. And I thought he'd actually gone
through it like foot through. It isn't as bad because
the innate ornate ceiling like it looks like it can
just be like put up. And of course I did
(02:53):
that thing of you know, you're twenty one, you sort
it out. So he wrings his godfather, who's a Sicilian
builder by the name of Joe. So I get home
to witness what is actually unfolded. And you know, I
hadn't had a lot of sleep Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, that's true. After I will not out.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, so and there's Joe, and he was like, the
first thing he did was it's not that bad. It's
not that bad. It looks bad, it's not that bad.
We can sort it out.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, So they and they are they replacing beams?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
No? No, I mean I'm gonna have to find someone
to professionally lay the bats, I think, yeah, OK, and
then we're going to have to somehow jack that. I
don't know. I mean, it just looks so simple. And
you know, Google one, you know, Lewin's answer to everything
was like when I was losing my mind, he goes.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But mom, Hi Google. Yeah, Google and d YI have
been a terrible I mean, it's handy and it's also
a nightmare. Thirty one six five is our number if
you've got a DIY drama and it make.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Me feel better, particularly if your kid did it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And we've got some awesome I'll throw a little carrot
out there too. We've got some SQ one Audio Technica earbuds.
Wireless earbuds will be a great Christmas gift. So if
you tell us about your DIY.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What were all you know, we're all trying to save money, right, yeah,
interest rates are going up. Things are tough, how hard
can it be?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
How much money do you just say with those those
do it yourself that, yeah, not like thirty one sixty
five nothing actually
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