Category Archive: DIY

Feb
01

Underfloor Heating Install Finished

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We managed to get the under floor heating finished this weekend and the floor laid. A really good job, and fairly straight forward to do if not a little fiddly. The main process was one of planning what we wanted under the floors, in terms of electrics, media cables, water supplies and drainage from the …

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Feb
01

Orangery Is Finished… According To My 2 Year Old Daughter

Yesterday evening, Cheryl and Eva picked me up on my way home from work as I needed to collect my car from its service. Eva was in one of her talkative moods, after telling me all the different cars mummy has had, I asked her what she has been doing. To my surprise she said …

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Jan
31

Protected: Eva The Joiner

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Jan
24

Fitting Underfloor Heating

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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 …

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Jan
24

Dewalt Dc100ka-gb 18v Combi Drill Bargain Price

I have posted a review of the DC988l1 on this blog in the past and the ridiculously low price you can get it for at Screwfix, however, I was in B&Q at the weekend and nearly fell over backwards as they have a version of the Dewalt 18v drill for less than £100 . They …

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Jan
17

A Late New Year Post

Ok so it is already over two weeks into 2011 and really too late for this kind of post, however, I was not so well over Christmas and New Year and and only just really recovering. We had a good Christmas, although as I said we were all ill, Our two year old daughter Eva …

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Jan
16

Dewalt Xrp 18v Dc988l1 Combi Drill Review And Bargain Price – Reposted

I have reposted this blog post due to popular demand. It seems that this is a better deal than I thought. I assumed that they would have this discounted price for just a few days, but the great price has continued. Since I wrote this review the switch on my drill failed, not surprising it …

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Dec
22

Problems Of Being A Landlord In This Cold Weather

I have had a property sitting empty for a little while now, not usually a problem, I visit weekly to check on things, however, I got a call at work from a neighbor who said there was water pouring down the wall outside and coming through into their dining room. I made my way to …

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Dec
16

Orangery Extension Part 19: Plasterboarding Continued, And New Window

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 …

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Dec
10

Silverline 10 Piece 1 Metre Cable Access Kit Review

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 …

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