Bedroom revamp
Still got a few bits left to do – amongst others, filling in the blackened hole which nearly killed me earlier… however looking pretty good from a distance anyway 🙂
Nearly killed myself today…
I nearly killed myself this morning. I drilled a hole through a mains cable and if it wasn’t for the rubber handle on the drill my wife would be saying goodbye to me down the morgue. I scared myself witless Even though I shot across the room with shock and an unbelievable urge to remove […]
My good friend Patty O’Finished
After a week of rain, the patio couldn’t be finished last Monday and so it was scheduled for today. Not a particularly warm day but dry, and this afternoon it did warm up a bit compared with 9am this morning. The only job to do today primarily was finish the concreting. Because the crazy paving […]
Digging the patio without burying a body
After having had some leaks into the garage over the last 6 months (especially during April to June when it rained solidly) it was determined by my father in law that the likely cause was water getting under the crazy paving patio, getting into some soil underneath and then ingressing between the join of the […]
Something to crow about
Any body know the law regarding keeping a cockerel in the back garden of a built up suburban area? A close neighbour who keeps chickens has decided in the last few days to get a cockerel and crowing at 4.30 in the morning is not good for doing a decent days work. Especially when you […]
A decent garden at last
After 6 weeks  of scaffolding, render, workmen and paint, today, bank holiday Monday has been the first proper day we’ve been able to get into the garden to make it look half decent again. I gather the rest of the week is meant to be a bit on the wet side. Chez’s mom, the green […]
Nearly completed insulation renovations
Nigh on 5 weeks since they started a (potentially) 2 week job, the scaffolding is down and we can finally see the house properly now. Whilst the house is now brighter, we are now seeing the commercial side of the process so to speak and it doesn’t help that the boss man’s people skills leave […]
Yellowed…
We’ve been fully yellowed today .. although some of the side wall needs redoing as some numpty scuffed the paintwork from the look of things before it had chance to dry ! All being well the ancilliary stuff will be done early next week and our surround balcony 🙂 will come down […]
Pink, Brown and Yellow…I can sing a rainbow
After nearly 3 weeks of scaffolding, we’ve had the pink stage of the insulation blocks, the brown stage of the render and now we are starting to get to the yellow stage of the final paint job. Hopefully either tomorrow (Friday) or Monday will be the front and back of the house painted and then […]
Returned to Render
Well actually its not render. I’m not really a DIYer but apparently its a base coat thats gone on today, with a second coat going on after, and then a render. I’m not sure if the render is actually the coloured final coat or whether they then paint the render. We are at least progressing […]