Category: diy
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Fencing and (Further) Delays
Still no heat pump, and we’re looking at another month before we’ve got a suitable cylinder. That hasn’t stopped me getting doing stuff. Shelf-ish Actions Selling our dresser left us a little short of storage space in the kitchen. Unfortunately it had to go as there was no space for the new mega-radiator (1.6m long…
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Get Pumped! (Air Source Heat Pump Edition)
The title says it all. Actually, it says a bit of it. The story is a little more complex than originally planned. Welcome to what was originally dubbed “Pump Week”. Welcome to the future! The latest air source heat pumps are quiet. Energy efficient. Stylish. Wireless? Pipe-less…cable-less? Yes, it’s a heat pump but not one…
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Tear Down This Wall(paper)
I last left you with a chaotic tableaux of generations of paint melded with half-removed wallpaper. It gets better. Feeling Blue Combining climbing with wallpaper removal and wall preparation is not ideal, particularly when you’re generally unaccustomed to using those muscle groups. It’s not impossible, but it does make for an additional challenge level. Eventually…
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DIM – Do it myself?
Our heat pump installation is drawing ever closer, and the work to clear things out is ramping up. The featured image is from a walk we took around Burrator reservoir over the weekend. Yes it’s back to DIY time again, and the wallpaper stripper is out. It’s a week and a bit until the team…
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G&G: Gardens and Gaming
The cold has been sapping my enthusiasm and inspiration all week, but that didn’t stop me entirely. The Garden Now that the evenings are getting a little lighter, and the conditions somewhat milder, I have made it back into the garden. There has been plenty to do, starting with raking the ever expanding carpet of…
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Lofty Ideals (or Ideal Lofts?)
The “I finally got round to insulating the loft” edition. The previous owners of our house did a wonderful job making the downstairs look nice, but corners were cut elsewhere and basic jobs that should have been tackled early were ignored. Energy prices are officially insane, and having a weedy 100mm of compressed wool insulation…
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The Ordinary Decent Office, and Other Nonsense
I was back in Northern Ireland for a short trip hence the lack of writing last time, but this one is coming to you from inside the new Ordinary Decent HQ. I thought I should take some photos with my camera as I find my phone rarely does a scene justice unless lighting conditions are…
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Almost There (Ordinary Decent Office)
I haven’t been feeling well and have run out of time this evening so this will be a quick update with a more in depth post later. My thumb survived at least. Almost There The office project is nearing completion. It has been over a year since I demolished those terrible bookcases in anger, and…
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Between a Saw and a Hard Place (Ordinary Decent Office)
Not somewhere you’d like to be, as I found out to my detriment, and testament to taking your time and doing a job right the first time. You won’t be overly surprised to hear there’s more DIY in this post. The work on the office continues in earnest. I left off the last episode with…
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Ordinary Decent Shelving
The office saga continues… I spent much too long poking around in the ceiling this week. Enough time to warrant buying an endoscope to see what the hell was going on. Picking up from where we left off last week, I was working on the network aspect of the office project. WiFi is fine, but…
