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Category Archive: DIY
Apr
15
Landlord Insurance
As a Landlord it is very important that you get your properties fully insured with the correct insurance. As a landlord you may had additional costs which need to be covered, which would not be covered by standard buildings and contents insurance. Standard buildings and contents insurance will also not cover your property if you …
Apr
13
Orangery Kitchen Extension Progress Stalled
I have had an email from someone who has been following our kitchen orangery extension project on this blog asking how progress is going and why I have not posted about in a while. They were actually asking in a round about way, if we had finished it yet! The answer to that is no …
Mar
15
Tepilo Review
I have listed my first property on Tepilo, the site setup by Sarah Beeny to help people sell their houses. It is a free service which is a website similar to an estate agents website in its structure that allows you to list your own home for sale, free of charge and free of commission. …
Mar
15
Second Kitchen Fitted In Less Than A Month
This weekend I have fitted the second kitchen this month! The first at our home in our kitchen orangery extension, and the second in one of our other properties that we are getting ready for sale. We were looking for a higher end ‘off the shelf’ kitchen for this property, clean, stylish and functional. We …
Feb
28
Orangery Extension Part 31: Fitting The Kitchen
We have spent the last two weekends fitting the kitchen in our kitchen orangery extension. We had a group of family and friends round last weekend to help get the first coats of paint on the walls and ceiling, get the sockets cut out of the plasterboard and the back boxes fitted. I spent about …
Feb
27
How To Install Under Floor Heating – Ufh
If you have read the last few posts on this blog you will have seen that we have just installed hot water under floor heating in our new orangery kitchen extension. Several people have asked for e to post a little bit about how we went about this. No I am not the expert on …
Feb
14
Happy Valentines… We Have A Kitchen
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 …
Feb
11
Screwfix Direct Miss Out On Another £180 Order
Last week I placed an urgent order with Screwfix, I paid extra on delivery to ensure that I got the order for Saturday so that I could get on with preparation for the plasterer to arrive. The order did not arrive, which then caused me a great deal of extra expense buying what I needed …
Feb
10
Orangery Extension Part 30: Insulating And Plaster Board On External Wall And Plastering
We have had a very busy couple of weeks, I called a plasterer round to quote for plastering of the Orangery Kitchen Extension, I was expecting him to give us a date of maybe two or three weeks in the future, however, he said he had a free slot this week. This put the pressure …
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