Just a quick apology for the complete lack of any updates over the last few weeks.
We haven’t given it all up as a bad idea, but have just been busy getting things done.
I’ll post a fuller update later but for now here’s a quick pic of the rather wintery view we currently have!
Replacing radiator valves without draining your central heating system is something that can be achieved with a few simple additional tools (bungs), a heating system that’s in reasonable condition, and a small helping of luck! This is a pretty safe & simple way to do small changes to pipework or routine maintenance tasks such as removing radiators…
Given the great weather I think the time has come to temporarily suspend interior jobs such as replastering the old kitchen, instead looking at making a start on some of the many things that need to be done outside the house. First on the list is cleaning up the frontage of property. Shortly after getting…
Great progress today – starting to feel like the house is slowly coming together now. Lounge plastering is well underway; bedroom 1 has had all of the remaining mess/carpet tape removed along with the first coat of paint on the replastered walls & ceiling and the remaining paintwork in bedroom 2 completed. We’ve also made…
After a tedious couple of weeks, the transformation of our old kitchen into a dining room is nearly complete. Aside from needing to hang a couple of doors, all that’s really left to do is sealing & painting the walls & ceiling. That’s tomorrows job, followed by the skirting & anything else wooden that needs…
It was long & drawn out… but the built in wardrobes are no more. (Start to finish in about 4 hours !) I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an over-engineered construction in a bedroom! Today’s flat-pack offerings are positively fragile in comparison, but on the plus side if you decide you’ve had enough…
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…