Tag: home-improvement
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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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Coverings
I’ve been plodding away on the boxing in the spare room. I filled and sanded the screw holes, used expandy foam, filler and caulke around the edges, and painted the whole thing with primer. The final step was a couple of coats of white wood paint. I located a pot and painted the wood. Then,…
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Scuppered by gravity
I’ve had quite a long break from drystone walling, but after a particularly irritating teams meeting I got out in the garden to build some more, my own bit of meditation. It’s a bit of a unstable wall at the moment as I need to backfill in a number of the places, having built the…
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Van Day 1
It’s certainly not a sensible thing to do, starting a van conversion when you still haven’t finished your house restoration, but this is exactly what we’re doing. In part we’re switching jobs because the IVF treatment starts in July so it’s possible next year we’ll be too busy with a baby to convert a van.…
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A Little Sunshine
You’d think I’d be bored of building drystone walls, but if anything I wish we had more to build. When the new fence went in our neighbour’s gardener, who put in the fence, piled up some stones along the boundary to cover the gap at the base. We didn’t want a full wall here, as…
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First coat
With a weekend away planned, we tried to get a few jobs done in the evenings in order to keep things moving forward. My first job was to finish the lime plaster on the stone wall. With the plastering finished the next job will be to fill the cracks and paint. Having done the previous…
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