Posts Tagged ‘renovation blog’
March 7, 2010
Tags: aga, aga twyford, rayburn, rayburn 345w, rayburn sfw, renovating blog, renovation blog, solid fuel cooker, solid fuel stove, wood burning cooker, wood burning stove

The old boiler and the place where the Rayburn will be.
It’s ordered! We’re getting it! I can’t believe it!!
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November 10, 2009
Tags: advice for knocking down walls, knocking down a wall, renovating blog, renovation blog

Part way through the job.
Two days after the plane landed in England, I’m to be found ignoring the suitcases in the middle of the living room floor (the weather was too wet to dry the washing anyway), sledge hammer in hand and bashing down a couple of walls at the top of the cellar stairs. I do have a good reason though…
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November 7, 2009
Tags: grouting clay tiles, grouting terracotta tiles, Grouting tiles, renovating blog, renovation blog
After spending one afternoon making my first attempts at grouting the floor; leaving the gaps to gradually fill with dirt seemed like a very sensible option.
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November 6, 2009
Tags: renovating blog, renovation blog, sealing floors, sealing terraccotta tiles, terracotta tiles, tiling floors
After reading all about the different types of sealant on the internet and the best advice for terracotta tiles, I decided to go for the only kind they sell in the local Focus. This is Q EP Tile Sealer.
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September 5, 2009
Tags: builders, doing up the kitchen, having the builders in, kitchen, renovating, renovating blog, renovation, renovation blog
Sorry I haven’t updated for so long. Summer holidays. Kids. You understand. Anyway, on checking my drafts, I found this post that I must have written just before the festival back in June. I know it’’s out of date now, but I’ll put it up anyway so other renovators can empathise and would-be renovators can be warned!
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June 10, 2009
Tags: builders, building, renovating, renovating blog, renovation, renovation blog

The wall coming down
The progress so far, and how I’m coping.
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June 1, 2009
Tags: kitchen, knocking down walls, renovating blog, renovation, renovation blog
Today the builders ascend on our house to knock down the kitchen and the dining room walls, and the staircase we don’t need. The beginnings of our new kitchen has begun!
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