Tag: renovation
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Layers
It’s always the little jobs that seem to take an age. After previously filling and sanding the skirting in the lounge and part of the kitchen, I thought I’d do the quick job of painting it. However, the cheap and cheerful wood paint we’d brought was thin as water, and four coats later the small…
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Inside – outside
We spent half a day sorting through several moving boxes currently living in our study, trying to remember why we have so much stuff. By the end we managed to relocate many of the items to elsewhere in the house, or offer them up to charity. What remains is a box of pictures and another…
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Still Windowsills…
Time keeps ticking away, and the baby is getting bigger and bigger. At 25 weeks into the pregnancy we still have plenty we want to get done before the due date. So despite not having much time, with busy weekends and dark, uninviting evenings, we still tried to get a few jobs done, to move…
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Time off?
We’d booked off two blocks of time, a Thursday/Friday on week 1, and Wedsday/Thursday/Friday in week 2. We’d hoped long weekend number 1 would get the kitchen floor finished off, but as week 2 rolled round there was still plenty to do. First we moved the furniture off the final area in need of treatment.…
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The Grind
Grouting and regrinding the concrete floor in the kitchen was not a job I wanted to do. Chris had decided on it from the moment we’d finished grinding and polishing it last time, feeling that grouting would fill in some small holes and strengthen the concrete. Having lived through the dusty hell of the first…
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Fitting
Having had an evening out at a local beer festival, Chris didn’t have the energy for DIY, so I decided to crack on with the windowsills on my own. I had the theory down, however, the practice was very rough. I took the previously cut pieces and joined them together with a set of clamps…
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Biscuits
It’s been a busy couple of weeks – but we managed to squeeze in a few jobs along the way. With our first fully van-based week long holiday looming, we wanted to get a few small jobs done in the campervan. Chris cut out some spare pieces of plywood to create a top for the…
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Sleepy Jobs
Being 15 weeks pregnant I must admit my energy level for DIY is significantly lower than pre-pregnancy. While I can do the same jobs as usual, they leave me exhausted within half a day, or for a few days after. This has meant a slow in progress. One job I was keen to do was…
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A little Carpentry
With the long weekend we thought we’d get a decent amount of work done. Of course things never go as quickly or as smoothly as we’d like but a few jobs got moved forwards despite a number of delays. We decided not to bother trying to straighten the lounge windowsill, and just stuck it down…
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Doors and Drawers
Chris was full of energy the other night, and cracked on with building the study door. Having accidentally sold too many doors, we didn’t have a door to fit this doorway. We wanted to match the other doors, but couldn’t find anything suitable second-hand or new for less than £70. The wood to make one…
Ruined 