With the onset of 2010, our builders have arrived in style on the first working day of the year. We’ve engaged a brilliant local firm called Upgrade Building Solutions (UBS) to demolish the dividing wall between the old Utility & Dining rooms, make good, tile the floor and supply/fit a new kitchen. The rooms started…

While we’re sorting out the bathroom upstairs, the new kitchen is steadily nearing completion. Cabinets are in along with the worktops & sink…

Now the plaster’s done, it’s time to crack on with the rest of the house. The first couple of coats of paint have been applied to the main bedroom to seal & cover the newly dry plaster, and this weekend’s job is to start getting the proper top-coats of paint done along with all the…

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…

After several weeks’ wait, another milestone’s arrived – what felt like a pallet’s worth of laminate flooring for the lounge, hall, entrance porch & old kitchen has finally turned up from B&Q..

Things finally seem to be building up a solid head of steam & are starting to move forwards….! Bedroom 1’s new plaster’s nearly dry and we’ve made inroads today into getting the room finished. The carpet’s been pulled up to reveal a floor that has tons of potential if sanded & varnished; skirting has been…