One of my biggest pet hates is a running overflow pipe, and they generally tend to run unabated for months before they’re fixed. If running water is not attended to…
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I’m not gonna say that successful DIY is absolutely about careful planning, but let’s just say on a scale of 1-10 it rates about 9. In over 50 years of…
It’s been a strange week, at the beginning of it, I was in my local butchers buying our meat for the week, it’s one of the best butchers around, Alan…
I know January is still winter time, but when the skies are as clear and blue as they are today, and the sunshine is pouring through the window directly onto…
It’s that time again, Christmas is just over a week away! It’s a really busy time for all of us, shopping for presents for our loved ones, Santa is so…
There are some of you out there that dislike Christmas, and find the paraphernalia of the season drives you crazy! Personally I love Christmas, I’m not too keen on some…
Altering, or changing a domestic electrical installation, is not something I would generally recommend to DIY’ers, but attempting a simple alteration, can be successfully completed, providing you are a “competent…
After 40+ years as a builder, I would say that the Victorian period for building is probably my favourite. That doesn’t mean I dislike other periods, and I do…
Doorbells are okay, but I am a man that has always preferred nice “knocker’s”. I’m the kind of guy who prefers a good banging on knockers than pressing door-bells, and…
Although I’m desperately hanging on to the last vestiges of a poor summer (optimistically still in shorts and flip-flops)! the leaves are beginning to fall, the nights are drawing in…