So you'll be glad to know that I am finally doing something about the crack in my kitchen wall that I mentioned in
August and that even then was well over a year old. So practically two years before I've got round to it. That's impressively weak even for me. A couple of builders came to look at it yesterday and both expressed the same opinion that it was probably a leak from the bathroom above - ha ha, I had been right, I could be a builder no problem. Apart from the actual building part of the job, but everything else I am great at. Neither builder thought that it would be an expensive job (hooray!), though they both thought that I should get the leak seen to, or it would all just happen again, like some kind of recurring damp kitchen wall nightmare.
Coincidentally (after a spate of getting myself organised and trying to pretend that my life is moving forwards again) I had some central heating men coming today to repair a leak to a radiator in that self-same bathroom (but unlikely to be the offending leak as it has only just started). They agreed that the flushing on the walls was fine (whatever that means) and so the source of the leak was probably the bathroom. But the only way to find out if this was the case would be to take up the bathroom floor. The flooring was in in such a way that this would cause the destruction of my current floor. And the expense of a new floor. And the expense of paying them to destroy my floor in the first place. Suddenly the cheap job was looking more expensive, but it had to be done.
After two hours the floor was up and the central heating man said that there was no leak under there and nothing damp at all. Now he thought that maybe the wind was swirling rain in at an angle so it was somehow getting around the flushing (I didn't really understand what he was talking about). I wish he'd thought of that before laying into some of my valuable floor.
At least my central heating works again now. Though I suspect at this rate it might be the late 2010s before my kitchen is back to its former glory. Who would have thought home-owning would be so complicated?
