Category: House

In the glorious sunshine, while it was far too hot indoors, we decided to start one of our Summer job now. We needed to do some serious maintenance to our…

While we had this lovely dry weather, we tackled a problem we had with our Gutters in the A-B corner of our house, above our Kitchen window and the Front…

We have been tackling our Utility Room, to sort out the pipes that have been “coiled” up in a untidy bunch for quite a while now, so that we can…

We started putting in the Utility pipes and ducting underneath our downstairs toilet, which we are calling by its traditional name of a “Cloakroom”, which is a very odd name…

While working on the Cloakroom and installing various utilities under the floor, we realised that the two Ensuites behind the Cloakroom needed to have their wooden floor framework built so…

We spent the last one-and-a-half weeks doing the work of building up the double layers of finishing surfaces for all the walls. Now that the floor is done, we can…

We spent the last two weeks in getting the flooring in our Great Room permanently fixed down at long last. We had originally laid the floorboards down a couple of…

We spent the last couple of days dismantling our very lovely and useful temporary flooring, the false floor that allowed us full and safe access to our sloping ceilings in…

These last few days had us covering our rafters we have exposed, seven of them, situated over the section where we have our Conservatory, like a Dormer sticking out of…

Since our Christmas break, these last few weeks, we have been working on the upper half of the Great Room, including getting the Gallery’s wall constructed with all its gaps…