Posts Tagged house

Feel the power..

or rather not, since the we’ve now had the house re-wired over the past couple of weeks. So all the old wiring in the original house has been removed, and replaced with new stuff, which now has good earthing, is colour-coded correctly to new standards. This means that the lighting ring with no earth is [...]

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Back in the cupboard

Karen has prepared the cupboard with a lick of paint, and now it’s time to put some stuff back under the stairs.. but firstly need to get some power there.
Which gives us a long saga about the merits of converting a garage into a room (that was done sometime ago, but it appears to have [...]

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Deforestation

Finally it is complete, the removal of the two pine trees from the back garden that is.
These were a couple of small bushes at one point in the very distant past, and appeared to have been lopped to reduce growth some time ago. However no maintenance has occured since then, and the things have grown [...]

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Total Immersion

The cold snap continues. Having got no hot water

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Let there be light.

The great thing about moving is that so many folks come around to give you assistance when you move in, (or they at least want a nosey at the place). So it was with parents.
Mum got the task of cleaning the kitchen, and Dad with his electrical experience was changing some light fittings.. That’s when [...]

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