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 …
Sep
14
If you are like me you will love the speed and finish that painting with a roller gives. You will also probably like me hate the clean-up of those rollers, holding them under the tap, squeezing and rubbing all the paint out of the roller. Often you are doing your clean up when you have …
Jul
30
I bought some uPVC reviver to clean the conservatory with. In the end I went for De-Solv-It uPVC Reviver from Screwfix. It is a cream very much like jiff cream cleaner, you simply rub the cream into the frame in a circular motion with a damp cloth and then buff it off with a dry …
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 …
Jun
16
We had our builder round last night to discuss a few things regarding our kitchen extension/orangery project. We needed to clarify some things and change some aspects of the design to ensure it is exactly what we want. It was a very constructive meeting and we gave him the go-ahead to refer the project to …
Dec
02
This year Christmas is going to be very different for us. Regular readers of my blogs will know that 7 months ago saw the arrival of our first child. Eva is now doing very well, crawling around and almost standing up. She is into everything, if she sees something that she is interested in she …
Jan
08
Installed a door for some friends in their downstairs toilet, however there is not enough room to have a conventional door, and bi-fold doors prove to be rather expensive, so I was given that task of fabricating something to work. Take one solid pine internal door from the reduced bin at B&Q and one sliding …
