Feb
14
I hinted in the last update post that there may be some exciting news just ready for valentines day, well the kitchen was delivered today. All in all it has been a rather stressful day. At the beginning of the day we faced ripping out work that had already been completed in order that building …
Jan
24
In our ongoing work on the Orangery Kitchen Extension we spent this weekend fitting underfloor heating. This was a larger job than it could have been as we were replacing the floor and insulating under the floor well before we did the under floor heating. It all went very well. We took up the old …
Dec
16
The progress on the Kitchen Orangery Extension has been rather slow over the last couple of weeks since the first fix electrics. I have managed to get as much of the plaster boarding done as I can, I still have one exterior wall to do which will be done with Kingspan, but this has been …
Dec
10
I have just bought myself a set of Cable access rods. I had been using my dads kit to help with the first fix electrics, pulling cables under the floor and they are a fantastic help, saving you struggling to crawl under the floor and enabling you to get cables through spaces that you would …
Dec
06
The Christmas adverts from Currys with their slogan, ‘we live electricals’ made me come up with my motto for the week ‘Matt Houldsworth I hate electricals’ I have been doing some electrical work on the Orangery Kitchen Extension. Wiring in an external IP55 socket and some lights outside and it is so damed fiddly, everything …
Nov
27
I have just installed a Satellite with an 8 way LNB. This means hat there are 8 cables coming from the satellite, through the wall and into the house. They will be going to three different locations in the house and as such I needed a method of keeping track which cable was which should …
Nov
23
The Satellite that I ordered yesterday has arrived. It gives me a little puzzle to sort out, how it all goes together and where best to hang it on the house. I anticipate it going on the drive wall above the Orangery. This will allow me to point it in the correct direction, it will …
Nov
22
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Nov
22
With the new kitchen orangery extension well underway, I need to consider how to get an aerial to where the TV will be situated in the Orangery. It may seem a little silly, but this has actually ended up on the critical path for the project plan as it needs to be done before plaster …
