Jun
13
If you have read the last few posts on this blog you will know that we have just come back from a weeks holiday, and as always, especially with a three year old who goes through at least three changes of clothes a day, we had a pile of washing. Cheryl was pleased with herself, …
Feb
27
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
01
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 …
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 …
Jun
18
We have a fully working boiler! After 6 months of struggling with our old boiler we now have a brand new Valiant boiler fitted. The install did not go as easily as it could, regular readers of this blog will know that we also moved the boi9let to the downstairs toilet in order to free …
Feb
07
We have been having problems with out boiler for some time now, the problems have come to a head with us only have a partly working boiler which does nothing very well at all, giving us lukewarm water and a heating system that continually requires top-ups of water to keep it going. Although we have …
Jan
22
I have just taken out the British Gas Landlords Cover for one of our properties that is about to be rented. I will be trialing it over the next lease period (probably 6 months) to see how it performs. It covers me for Gas, Gas Safety Cert, Plumbing, Drainage, Electrics and electrical safety. Which means …
