Maintenance

 There is always lots to do in our house that it is general maintenance. Let's not talk of the cleaning, painting, whatever we would have to do to keep things in order, considering that everything always break.

Anyway, we need also to do some preventive cleaning/maintenance, that should be done at least seasonally.

A typical "autumn" activity should be to clean the gutters. This because when all the trees lose the leaves, we need to secure that the water flows properly through the pipes, considering that there should be rain/snow during the winter season.

Now, the thing is that autumn means often also storms, dark, cold, so doing this job after the trees have lost the leaves is completely uninviting. Hence, we often end up doing it in spring/summer time.

Professional cleaning (Mattias)

Our house is also incredibly practical when all of this needs to be done. So, as the gutters are about 6 mothers high from the ground, it is just a pleasure to climb of the ladder and hang there with a water hose and a brush and hope for the best...

Finally we can lock the bathroom door

 All our doors are hanging not straight, in a way or in another.

This has been generally ok except for one of the bathroom doors. It made it impossible to look, with of course the inconvenience of not having some privacy when in the room. 

How the door is hanging not really straight

The lock with the plate. 

It was not that many centimeters, possibly just one, but enough to not let the mechanism for locking work.

A bigger picture of the plate

One idea was of course to put more washers on the hinge, to hope that the door would lift itself up a bit, but after a quick inspection I noticed that the trick had been already used (ineffectively) and that I would have needed to put many many washers. 

The hinge

The decision was then to move the plate to match the lock. This revealed some different paint color under the bright white that we have painted most of things with. 

The hole and the signs for moving the plate

It did require some minor "digging" of the wood to move down the plate one centimeter. 

The plate after being moved. 

This took some hours of work. It was not as easy as I thought initially that it would have been. Now, finally it is at least possible to lock the bathroom door - I wonder how did the owner before us did for some many years. 

What a satisfaction when the kids try to open the door and I am locked inside! Peace!