Even before I actually moved here and was only just looking at accommodation in my soon to be home I was amazed at how close to the seafront the houses are! And a lot of them are student accommodation. Now I think it was more expensive to live on the seafront and that's why I didn't opt for it for my first year here (#poorlife) but I do remember watching a video tour of one of the rooms and the view was ahmazing!
Now for a few brief days my dream had come true, 6 years later.
Funny story actually...
Came home from work one day and Mr. Special said he had had a phone call from some guy asking if they could arrange a viewing of our flat to insulate it and add proper heaters for free, all he had to do is prove that he does live here. I thought it was a scam... What the hell? First of all why is this not coming through our letting agent??? Some scheme to make sure all flats are compliant to a new legislation forced soon. Again where is our letting agent? Are they aware of this? What the hell? You're just letting some random guy come check out our flat, give him your identification and proof of address? That's just asking for trouble?
Ok the next day our letting agent confirmed they are aware of the scheme and it is legit and they want us to go ahead with it. The free scheme can only be used by residents, not letting agents and that's why they contacted us directly. Still fishy though... the letting agent could've at least given us a heads up! And it was all happening so fast! Yeap we'll come do your flat next week! What already? Most of the block was to be done on the same day. Ok.... Do we need to move anything? No, they'll work around the furniture! What? They'll insulate inside around the furniture? Doesn't really make sense but ok if you said don't move anything we won't. They were only supposed to be there one day.
Big mistake... OBVIOUSLY there was dust EVERYWHERE!
And no, they weren't even half done on the first day! Sooooooooooooo DamDamDam. Come home from work that day and can't even sit down in my own home... By 4pm it was clear we can't possibly stay here for the night... Thanks for the freaking heads up! Pfffft "No need to move anything at all" How about move ourselves out of the flat!?! The letting agency booked us (5 flats?) rooms in a hotel. In a hotel on the seafront! One of the fanciest hotels in town! :) Oh Yah not bad at all... Unlucky though that I had to work and couldn't enjoy that view all day long :( I looooove bay windows. Especially on the seafront!
We ended up staying for 2 nights. Didn't really want to go back to be honest.
The carpets were dusty, there was dust everywhere. If only we had been told about the scale of the job I would've packed everything or covered everything at least. The carpets were meant to be professionally cleaned but we are still waiting (obviously not with the dust, we cleaned it ourselves). And we are still waiting for the heaters to be put in as well. Rumour has it that it's a BIG job as the meters are downstairs so they have to do some rewiring and possibly rip the carpets up... Could do with new carpets actually :D I hope they let us know this time so we an move all valuables away from dust damage!
Oooh a bit of drama as well: upstairs flat is apparently nearly inhabitable and the workmen nearly refused to carry out any work in there before it got cleaned. There is a huge person living there, who doesn't work and only plays on his playstation days on end... Frequenting the shop every day to basically buy crap... big multibags of crisps, KFC etc, not proper food and as they now realised is not the cleanest person in the world by far. So they called our usual handyman to clean the flat :D He was sulky AF! Saying that he could've done the insulation job and done a better job as well instead of being a cleaner! :D
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...
