Bathtime = time to get dirty
After the bathroom wall came down at the weekend, the next fun job was destroying the bath. It was pretty much a holding point for rubble at this point from…
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Skim skimskeroo
Although the house is practically falling apart (mostly our doing to be honest. Sledgehammers are just far too fun) the walls are suprisingly in pretty good shape. Of course there…
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Making a house a home
I love that Joe added to this blog yesterday. I was visiting family at the weekend and was away with work on Monday and Tuesday so I’m really enjoying looking…
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Demolition Man
The other day I had a great pleasure of tearing down the joining wall from our enclosed WC to the main bathroom with my cousin Gary. First we had to…
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Mum’s the word
I was lucky enough to get 2 days off work this week (Thursday & Friday) to get some more done on the house. My mum (Angela) came to see the…
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Demolition caught on film
The weekend at the house included a fair bit of demolition in the garden. And I wish I could take credit for this, but to be honest, I’m a bit…
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What bank holidays are made of…
I’ve always been aware that bank holidays are big for DIY and getting good deals (HURRY, SALE ENDS MONDAY. GET IT NOW OR DIE A MISERABLE DEATH FROM REGRET). But…
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Never thought I’d be blogging about a fence…
A really nice suprise when we arrived on the Saturday morning was that some fences had already been delivered for the front garden. This was courtesy of Joe’s Aunty and…
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The Jungle that was our garden
After almost 6 months since we had our offer accepted on the house, we are finally granted access, and in that time the garden has become pretty much like a…
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The ‘before’ video
As soon as I got the keys to the house, I decided to make a video tour of what it originally looked like. This was mostly for my mum’s sake…
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