Tag: sustainable
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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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Cork
We’d ummed and ahhed about the lounge floor for a long time. My preference would have been carpet, but Chris wanted hard flooring. While I’m happy with wood or tiles in other rooms, the lounge is a room where I like to lie on the floor and I wanted something warm. In the end we…
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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…
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Slowly….slowly
It’s been a busy time, these last few months, with lots of travel, lots of visits, and very little DIY. Sitting down to work out what we have left to do inside the house, the list looks tantalisingly short, yet since writing it we’ve not ticked much off. A few week ago we took our…
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Change of plans
We were very lucky to get an Eco grant for our heating system when we first got the house. However, because the grant came so early in the renovation we didn’t always know how we were going to set up the rooms. Now, using the rooms, we’ve found two of the radiators are in the…
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Rearranging
I usually write my blogs on a Sunday night, as a nice way to finish off a weekend of DIY. Sometimes if we haven’t done much I’ll wait till the following week. As I didn’t feel what we’ve done is that impressive I wondered about rolling over this week, but then again it was a…
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Flattened
Having said I would leave the final piece of hedge laying along the back of the house till next year, we had some sunny evenings and I had some energy, so I decided to get on with it. It was a fiddly bit of ground to work on, being high and narrow. I managed to…
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Katie’s Big Fortnight
Switching from one job to another I took a fortnight off, both to free up time for some IVF appointments and to push on with some DIY projects. Unexcitingly, I spent good amount of time filling the edges around the wall on the stairs. Still it was nice to tidy up a rough edge. There…
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