Cottaging

Post by **spot** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:17 am

I'm at my holiday cottage for the week, having found a local firm to re-carpet the upper floor. Somehow I'm meant to get all the beds dismantled - I'm replacing the beds too - and lifting all the existing carpet.

Dismantling beds I can manage.

Lifting carpet has me absolutely baffled. How on earth am I meant to do this?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:56 am

I am not here because of the misleading headline.........................honestly.

You don't 'lift' carpets, you roll them up.

If you are disposing of them invest in a stanley knife and cut them in situ into manageable sizes to enable carrying them alone (if you are working alone)

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:17 am

If you're hiring an installer for the new flooring, they will usually remove the old carpeting for a small additional charge.

If you're removing the carpeting yourself, and it's wall to wall carpeting go around the perimeter and pull it off the tacking and then roll it up.

If you're replacing the carpeting with new, It might be advisable to also replace the padding underneath as well as the tacking strips.

Post by **spot** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:28 am

I had no idea these contractors would do it if asked. I just now rang the gang leader and asked if they'd get the old stuff up and out too and he said yes. Thank you both, that's sorted my week.

I'd searched eBay for a donkey jacket earlier.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 8:41 am

They will be in and out, make it look a lot easier than it is.

Make sure you get the kettle on as soon as they arrive..........................and no cottaging jokes........in fact none of your jokes at all........they are an acquired taste.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:07 am

I would be sure to treat and seal the subfloor underneath since the carpeting is coming up.

Post by **spot** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:24 am

I'm making progress but I'll leave the floor preparation to the carpet fitters, they've included that in their quote.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:39 pm

Cottaging...I love cottaging.!!!! Victoria hase few free cottages for bushwalkers in the hills .(some known others are secret).

I want to do that when I come to England. Rent one for the weekend or something, but in in cold weather. Might have to find one in Scotland.

It's funny that's how I eventually want to live. In a cottage off grid on my own property in the hills. (one day)

Post by **spot** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:53 am

The most remote one I know is alongside the Cairngorms, half way along a walking path called the Lairig Ghru https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/cairngo ... ghru.shtml - it's the nearest we come to wilderness. Mountain shepherds in Wales have remote cottages with no utilities, and on the outer islands there are still a few unconverted crofts. You don't get much daylight during winter at 60 degrees north. Lilian Beckwith wrote about wintering in her croft, if you have a Kindle.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 4:47 am

There's a very crude bothy (no door) on the summit of Cader Idris that wasn't marked on the Ordnance survey map I had at the time. That was a surprise as the OS is usually exhaustive in its detail.

edit: And gosh folks - opportunity missed or what? You could have had spot removing his carpet with a Stanley knife one small square at a time! sigh. Too late now.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:00 am

magentaflame;1505910 wrote: Cottaging...I love cottaging.!!!!

English Cottaging

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:01 am

Clodhopper;1505920 wrote: You could have had spot removing his carpet with a Stanley knife one small square at a time!

He's not that daft.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:33 pm

Bruv;1505922 wrote: English Cottaging

Good grief! First dogging now cottaging. Why are you the one who seems to be most versed in these things?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:39 pm

magentaflame;1505940 wrote: Why are you the one who seems to be most versed in these things?

What things ?

I know what brain surgery is, I don't do it.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 6:17 pm

Nah give it a go..... see what happens

Post by **spot** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 6:23 pm

I'm back, if anyone wants to know. The electrics are adjusted, the outgoing kit has a collection date arranged, the fitters are all booked, I might go up again next weekend and the first booking is at the end of March. It was quite pleasant being warm for a few days.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 2:59 pm

I've got a caravan currently on site down in the borders. Walkd across in to england the other day seemed a good idea to do it before the tories close the border to stop people fleeing england after brexit.

The most remote one I know is alongside the Cairngorms, half way along a walking path called the Lairig Ghru https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/cair...rig-ghru.shtml - it's the nearest we come to wilderness. Mountain shepherds in Wales have remote cottages with no utilities, and on the outer islands there are still a few unconverted crofts. You don't get much daylight during winter at 60 degrees north. Lilian Beckwith wrote about wintering in her croft, if you have a Kindle.

Famous in hillwalking circles for actually having a toilet. Used to be one iof the haunts of bothy bill - a tramp who wandered the hills in between signing on in kingussie was reputably the best equipped tramp in the country having helped huimself from gear left in the bothy while tghe iwner was on the hills. probably dead now.