After a couple of days of plastering, we finally have what looks like a room taking shape. Waiting for new plaster to dry always seems to be such a tedious & lengthy process. In the mean time, those lovely louvered & glass panelled doors just had to go… Along with the rather tired flooring in…

Once the old bathroom had been stripped out we were able to get our first good look at the floor…. … and promptly determined that this was a prime opportunity to remove the old floor boards replacing them with plywood as a much more stable & solid base for tiling. With the boards up, we…

On inspecting the heating / hot water systems (DHW) when we first got the keys we’d noted that the hot water cylinder was getting a little tired, and would probably need to be replaced at some point relatively soon. What we weren’t quite expecting was to come into the house at around 3pm on a…

Needless to say, life’s been a bit busy over the last few months. We’ve moved in, and have just about got everything “straight” now. There’s lots and lots more that needs doing like ripping out the remaining bits of old kitchen, refitting the “family” bathroom, and sorting out the remaining bedrooms. That’s all before we…

Just to finish off the last post, here’s a picture of the nearly finished front garden; snapped in this morning’s sun.

It’s arrived! With enough of the house ready to move into, we decided the time had come to get on with moving… Cue one removals van (we’d already packed up & transported pretty much anything that would fit in the cars) along with a couple of suitably burly blokes to move everything left in the…