So as many know I lost my job about 4 weeks back and the day before I found out about that, my lodger gave his notice so I have no rent income either until I get another one in, which I need asap!
He moved out in the week leading up to the bank hol, so I started to crash through some of the DIY stuff on the house that I can't do while I have a lodger in, but need to do before I can get another one in, like replacing the bath that was knackered (serviceable but only just, it was a cheap crap plastic one installed by the previous owners and had got to the stage where the bottom felt like it was going to go imminently).
Managed to pick a replacement steel bath up 'kin cheap due to what I think is a pricing error on a website
and ripped the old one out on Saturday morning ok, but then found this...
Closer up view
FFS, the joist running under where the bath is, is rotten to hell and the beam that attaches to it and runs through to the bedroom next door is also rotten.
View looking towards the bathroom from the other bedroom
That beam supports the entire bedroom floor (all the joists in that room run into the beam, not through into the adjacent wall). So that beam is supported one end by the party wall and the other end, by running into this rotten joist in the bathroom.
The rotten joist in the bathroom and the first joist the other side of it (attached to the rotten beam) also holds up the dividing blockwork wall between the bathroom and bedroom, via the floorboards that run under it (60% of which are also rotten).
Needless to say, the bath hasn't gone back in and I'm now begging showers off my ex lodger in his new place!
Insurance doesn't cover this so it's a hand in pocket job.
No way I can afford to get a builder so I'm gonna have to fix it myself. Hoping I can limit the damage to just taking the ceiling down in the kitchen, floorboards up in landing, back bedroom and bathroom (chopping the ones in the bathroom to avoid having to re-tile the floor!), acro-stands everywhere and not having to also take down the ceiling in the hall (that was only replastered/decorated last summer!
)2. Boiler
Sat watching a film on Saturday evening drowning sorrows in beer/vodka and thought it felt a bit cold. Checked the central heating and the boiler had a fault code that wouldn't reset, so no hot water or heating either!
Took it apart on Sunday to work out what was wrong and discovered there was a minor error made by the person that installed it (me lol) that stopped me from taking something apart (couldn't get the condensate trap out cause of the system fill loop clashing underneath it). So had to drain the system to re-plumb that - very annoying...
3. Lude no.1 (UKDM)
Went out to Homebase to get a fitting for the re-plumbing and while I was there I remembered the MOT/insurance were due around now. Drove home, finished the boiler and then checked... MOT and insurance expired yesterday
. Lucky I didn't pass mr plod en route! It needs new rear calipers and the exhaust has a blow that needs welding up (seam on the stainless backbox is leaking - out of warranty due to being fitted by previous owner). Won't be buying calipers soon, so that's now off the road!
4. Lude no.2 (JDM)
So went off Sunday evening to drop the missus at her gym and me to go round ex-lodgers for a shower, jumped the JDM (hasn't been driven for about a month waiting for weather to improve so I can finish putting it back together) and set off. Pulls to the left, smell of burning. FFS, front left calliper binding
Grrr... So no car on the road as of today either.
Fortunately I do already have replacement front calipers for the JDM, so I just need to get them cleaned up and fitted. But gotta fit that in around fixing the house and finding a new job.
Still, could be worse eh?!
The other issues are only minor in comparison 
