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Boxes, bags and a piano
We have moved. This was our first proper house move, having previously moved into our first house with very little of our own stuff. Cleaning out the house, it’s been slightly horrifying how much stuff we own. Even trying to donate and recycle we still seem have accumulated enough boxes that we could simply build…
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Making a mess
With this being our last weekend before we move, we were keen to try and get as much done as possible. However, though we’ve got plenty done, most of it was small and fiddly. It therefore doesn’t look like we’ve moved forward very much, yet the house is significantly messier. All the cleaning carried out…
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Fabulous floors
The contractors have returned, and finished nearly all of the window reveals. Though they take up a relatively small area within a room, it’s amazing how much more it makes the rooms look finished. One of our requests to them was that they put our curved corners back, and we were delighted to see they…
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And the kitchen sink…
This weekend was all about eating cake! Well, and DIY. Mostly DIY actually, but there was some cake. We’d been invited to Chris’s cousin’s 21st; an afternoon tea at a fancy hotel. In order to get a good day’s work in before we clocked off for the party, we decided to sleep over at the…
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A Bath with a View
We have light! It’s been a busy week for Chris, trying to finish off the last few sockets and light fittings before our electrician came to connect it all together. He was fairly worried incase it didn’t work, but luckily there were no major faults, and for the first time in nearly a year we…
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Rush
I feel this is going to be a short blog post. Although we’ve been working particularly hard, our energies have been put into a very small number of repetitive jobs. For me, it’s been never ending plastering. After initially being disappointed with my plastering efforts, Chris has lowered his expections and allowed me to continue…
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Count down
It seems like time has sped up now the moving day is closing in. On the one side we have our housebuyers calling up to ask when the sale will go through, on the other side we have the mortgage company demanding all boxes ticked before we can move our mortgage across. And we’re feeling…
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Boards, doors and dogs
Three days of DIY is a rare opportunity, and I must admit I felt optimistic that we would get a huge amount done. Yet the weekend seemed to pass with not much accomplished, and a sense of frustration. Yet, writing this blog post I realised we’d gotten plenty done, it was just all fiddly little…
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Up high, and down below
It feels a little like Christmas, walking in and finding a load more work completed by the contractors. We now have a fully working heating system, with radiators in every room. One or two small issues arose during installation including the covering over of a few electrics, and a radiator where my future piano is…
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Rising up
It seems like everything has suddenly sped up this week at the house. With the contractors starting installation of the heat pump and solar panels on Monday, we had a list of jobs we needed finished before they appeared. Luckily, we got an extra pair of hands for the weekend, in the form of my…
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