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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…
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A ‘new’ kitchen
There’s something magical about snow, particularly thick, fresh snow. Yet, while I was excited to see the snow come down heavy on Thursday, we were a little worried when it kept going on the Friday. Having booked a van to go collect our kitchen on Saturday, we didn’t fancy skidding around on the ice. Luckily,…
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Letting in the light
Our new house has a total of 12 windows, no two alike. While we would have liked to keep the old wooden windows they’re single glazed and in very poor condition. Replacing wood for wood had been our preferred choice, but the cost is prohibitive. Therefore we opted for PVC in the back and wood…
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Floored
After a few weekends fighting with the floor, Chris had success evening with a rented whacker plate, which compacted the soil down to the right level. Floor finally at the right height he moved in the sand, which was also compacted down using the whacker plate till it was properly flattened. On Saturday, while I…
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Undermining
Around a week ago we arrived at the house to find our insulation installers had had a bit of an accident. Opening their van something must have tumbled out, spilling thousands of polystyrene balls onto our drive. As environmentalists the sight of all this litter was horrifying. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a hoover to attempt…
Ruined 