hi raysparx1, i am 67years young, i don't have a mortgage and don't think i could get one as i am on a very limited budget, i lost my wife of 46 + years last august and there is now �70.00 per week less in the pot.so if no grant available i will have to try a luck dip on lottery, thanks anyway and i will try not to overload circuits, ps. it is now 23. 40 hours and i am still not tired, don't sleep very well at the best of times. (Sorry if i am prattling on a bit ) off to bo bo's now.
Keep smiling phizzy, wish I lived a bit nearer to you I would do it for you if you kept me going with tea and biscuits, good luck mate,, you sound great character, Ray
hi phizzy, me again I was just thinking and it might be worth ringing local council and asking if they have a " care and repair" department, it might even be run by social services, they do repairs to pensioners properties to enable people to stay in there own houses, please give it a go, we have this system in North wales and it works really well, but I don't know if it is nationwide, good luck, Ray
Definately call the Council, phizzy. My Gran discovered last year that because she was a Nurse all of her life she was eligable for some kind of Government Grant that apid toward various repairs in her home. My Gran took full advantage of this and had all the locks in her house changed AND had a new bathroom installed (she had a shower over bath and had difficulty climbing oer the bath to shower so the bath was taken out and a double size shower cubicle put in). That was all she wanted done but there was far more available for her.
I don't know what you did for a living, but it's well worth a phone call, you have nothing to lose.
hi xiomara, thanks i will give council a bell in the morning, hope your gran is ok, - i was in engineering most of my working life, with some time in credit drapery, both jobs plenty of hours, not much in the 'packet' - take care, phizzy