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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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Tiled out
Something you often don’t appreciate is how tiring crouching is. Bending, straightening, bending down again, somehow seems to sap the same amount of energy as a sprint race, by the end of the day. Having completed the main block of tiling last week I now needed to measure and cut the edge pieces before attaching…
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Guilt-trip
It’s the long Easter weekend and we’ve got four whole days off DIY. With a big family celebrating taking place, we decided to down tools a join in. However… though we’re looking forward to the rest, we do both still feel pretty guilty that we aren’t using the extra days off to knuckle down and…
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The Last Wall Standing
It’s much more pleasant working in the house now things are warming up, though there’s still the occasional chill in the air. In order to get the house ready for the mortgage inspector we need to get the downstairs toilet ready. We set it out with the sink and toilet to check the spacings, marking…
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Part-timer
This Saturday I had my monthly volunteer day, meaning Chris had to head to the house alone. Luckily, Jay had once again volunteered some free labour. Having spent a busy evening getting plasterboard up on the study wall, Chris was in the mood for more partition wall building. The boys set to work creating the…
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Inspection time
We’ve been busy shopping this week, and so far have a complete bathroom suite biding its time in the garden. The roll top bath was something I was keen on from the start, but we’ve struggled to find one cheaply second-hand. Eventually, one appeared at a suitable price. The toilet and sink came up even…
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Grounded
It was an early start to get to the house to test the underfloor heating before the cement truck arrived. Unfortunately, the company delivering the cement rang as we were driving across, asking if they could arrive half an hour early. Gone was our prep time. Arriving soon after us our cement deliverer was in…
Ruined 