Wideangle Wednesday: Jolly bothersomE

I apologise that my entry for Wideangle Wednesday is rather contrived: Bobsblips (thanks Bob) wants us to relate it to the first and/or the last letter of JunE so this blip ties to both, being Jolly bothersomE!
 
As you can see we've had an unplanned day of furniture-moving and carpet lifting, along with boosting our electricity bill by running a fan heater and a dehumidifier.

We were actually quite lucky - yes I mean it! A friend who came to visit yesterday took off his shoes at the door because they were muddy. When he happened to walk towards the window in the lounge in his stocking feet to look at the garden, he noticed that the carpet by the window was wet. As it's quite a dark blue patterened carpet you couldn't tell this by looking. We soon discovered that the radiator valve in this corner was leaking.

Only a corner of the carpet was at all wet. However as we lifted more and more of it today we discovered that the floorboards were damp across the whole floor of the room, with the underlay doing a pretty good job of stopping the rest of the carpet getting wet. Clearly the slow leak had been going on for some time, with us being blissfully unaware of its extent. So it's just as well our friend noticed it when he did, although happily as it's an old house the floorboards are made of high quality wood and there's no sign of rot.

We're not planning to claim on the insurance. The carpet is almost 20 years old and was scheduled for replacement soon anyway. But now that we've moved much of the furniture we might as well plan to get on with long-needed decoration of the room as soon as it's dried out a bit, and replace the carpet too. It wasn't going to be the next room on the list to be poshed up but I think it will be now - the order of the list was pretty arbitrary anyway.

Oh, and a new radiator valve is in order...annoyingly it's one of the newest ones we have, which I replaced just a few years ago.

(We might have been more cross but when we thought of our minimal upset as compared with the suffering of those poor folk in the horrendous fire in London last week we realised how lucky we are.)