I’m sitting in my study looking out of the window on this very wet autumn morning. Its 8.15am, but looks as though daylight is struggling to make itself seen, and…
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A recent mini-disaster for a neighbour, could quite easily have had serious repercussions for my property! The weather has been much warmer recently than the norm for this time of…
The weather window for exterior decoration is closing fast, and leaving it for another year or two maybe a serious mistake! A well maintained home is a great long term…
We are approaching the end of summer, with autumn just around the corner, so I thought I would talk about flooring, and some of the do’s and don’ts with the…
I briefly mentioned in my last blog an oak flooring project I was working on, so today I would like to expand on that project, and point out some of…
For the last week I have been laying new oak flooring in a fairly recently built house. The house itself, the structure, is well built, but the internal design and…
It must be the weather, otherwise why would we get these crazy ideas: to take on these mammoth DIY jobs, OK maybe not, but it is the hottest day of…
With the weather this summer behaving itself so far, and providing us with lots of warm sunny days, one of the best ways to enjoy that bounty of great weather…
There is a strange misconception about fitted kitchens: that the more you pay the better the kitchen you will end up with. That would seem to correspond with that old saying…
“Summer has arrived!” It’s official, and the first day of summer, Sunday 1st of June was a cracker, sunny and warm all day, and my first family barbecue of the…