Its been a very interesting couple of months, I’m making a new series for BBC1 called “Cowboys and Angels.” And the clue to the content is in the title! It’s never…
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I had a serious problem to contend with this week: I was installing a new kitchen, and once I stripped out the old one, an unexpected problem reared its ugly…
My current building project is coming to a conclusion, with that seemingly never ending list of little things to do. It has been quite a job, the complete upgrading and…
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…
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…