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Levelling up
It’s felt like a physical weekend, with lots of lifting and bending, but we’ve seen a good amount of progress to make it worthwhile. I finished off the last few slabs on the side patio, before we reach the section covered in piles of stone that need to be moved first. Chris then cut a…
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Van 6: Transformer
Having not had much to do with the van over winter, other than Chris sorting some mechanical bits, the countdown to the next MOT moved it back up the To Do list. Added to that, with nice spring weather, and the house more in order, it’s about time we actually used it. Chris spent the…
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Flattened
Having said I would leave the final piece of hedge laying along the back of the house till next year, we had some sunny evenings and I had some energy, so I decided to get on with it. It was a fiddly bit of ground to work on, being high and narrow. I managed to…
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Katie’s Big Fortnight
Switching from one job to another I took a fortnight off, both to free up time for some IVF appointments and to push on with some DIY projects. Unexcitingly, I spent good amount of time filling the edges around the wall on the stairs. Still it was nice to tidy up a rough edge. There…
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Beautify
We had spent a long time thinking about how to design the stairs to maximise space. In the end we settled on a banister attached to the wall, with slats on the otherside to stop people falling off the stairs. Chris ordered oak slates and a pine beam to attach the slats to. We then…
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Chris’s Big Week Off
Chris is changing jobs, and wisely decided to take off a week between. This has given him some time to focus on some of the jobs that he’s been wanting to get done. Unfortunately, as I’ve been working, I don’t have many photos of some of Chris’s work, as he doesn’t take any. He spent…
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Timber
One of the biggest disagreements myself and Chris have had about the house renovation has been how many trees to take out in the garden. Having been abandoned for forty years, the majority of the garden was covered in tall trees or scrub. Personally, I would prefer not to take out any trees – as…
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Strip and Paint
It’s been a busy start to the year, with Chris off skiing, and me having two house guests, in the form of Chris’s brother’s dog Ned and my friend Becky. With an extra doggy guest arriving, we wanted to protect the stairs from damage by staining them. I did two coats, with a sand before…
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Stairs
The very dull world of installing skirting kept me busy for a good week. Even once it was attached there was the filling, sanding, second filling, second sanding, caulking and of course first coat and second. It’s done anyway, aside for the doorway, which is complicated as it currently catches on the door. With the…
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Touch of Paint
With guests coming to stay soon, I wanted to tidy up the last few bits in the guest bedroom. This meant filling and sanding a few areas, and then painting the window reveals and coving. I bought a second curtain and put up the curtain pole on the second window. Because of the wonkiness of…
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