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Decorating progress
ByTim
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…
Unplanned works; new hot water system!
ByTim
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…
Getting there part 2; how hard can it be to find stuff that matches laminate in colour?
ByTim
The new dining room is really taking shape now, and it’s finally beginning to look like a completed room rather than a building site. As the floor nears completion however we realised that we needed to get some door bars to join the flooring under hall door, across the threshhold into the lounge and where…
Back to the bathroom
ByTim
One of the distinguishing “features” installed by the previous owner was a wood-panelled ceiling. Perhaps not quite to everyone’s taste… and definitely not to ours…! Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t particularly well attached and soon parted company with a little persuasion to reveal that it had simply been put up underneath the original plasterboard ceiling, which…