Orangery Extension Part 16: First Fix Electrics
It has been a little while since I posted an update about the work on the Orangery Kitchen Extension. Conservatec have finished their part of the work, although they have left me with some finishing...
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Orangery Extension Part 17: First Fix Electrics Finished And Ready For...
The first fix electrics in the Orangery Kitchen Extension has now been finished, it was a bigger job than we first thought mainly due to the number of lighting zones, switches and the basic...
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Freesat Hd Solutions
With the new kitchen orangery extension well underway, I need to consider how to get an aerial to where the TV will be situated in the Orangery. It may seem a little silly, but this has actually ended...
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Satellite Has Arrived
The Satellite that I ordered yesterday has arrived. It gives me a little puzzle to sort out, how it all goes together and where best to hang it on the house. I anticipate it going on the drive wall...
View Article10,000 Words In One Month, Now Up To 60,000 Words
I have posted a few of these word count updates in the past few months, but this one I am really pleased with, I have now hit 60,000 words on this blog, but more than that the last 10,000 of those...
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Dewalt Flip-over Saw Bench Dw743 Review
I have had the Dewalt DW743 flip-over saw bench for some time. Now with the major works I have underway with the Orangery kitchen extension it has really come into its own. I have had several of the...
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Orangery Extension Part 18: Plasterboard And Insulation
This weekend we have moved the Kitchen Orangery Extension on another leap forward. We have plaster boarded the whole of the ceiling out, insulated the party wall and got all the plaster boarding on...
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I Hate Electricals
The Christmas adverts from Currys with their slogan, ‘we live electricals’ made me come up with my motto for the week ‘Matt Houldsworth I hate electricals’I have been doing some electrical work on the...
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Silverline 10 Piece 1 Metre Cable Access Kit Review
I have just bought myself a set of Cable access rods. I had been using my dads kit to help with the first fix electrics, pulling cables under the floor and they are a fantastic help, saving you...
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Orangery Extension Part 19: Plasterboarding Continued, And New Window
The progress on the Kitchen Orangery Extension has been rather slow over the last couple of weeks since the first fix electrics. I have managed to get as much of the plaster boarding done as I can, I...
View ArticleA Late New Year Post
Ok so it is already over two weeks into 2011 and really too late for this kind of post, however, I was not so well over Christmas and New Year and and only just really recovering.We had a good...
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Fitting Underfloor Heating
In our ongoing work on the Orangery Kitchen Extension we spent this weekend fitting underfloor heating. This was a larger job than it could have been as we were replacing the floor and insulating under...
View ArticleOrangery Is Finished… According To My 2 Year Old Daughter
Yesterday evening, Cheryl and Eva picked me up on my way home from work as I needed to collect my car from its service.Eva was in one of her talkative moods, after telling me all the different cars...
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Underfloor Heating Install Finished
We managed to get the under floor heating finished this weekend and the floor laid. A really good job, and fairly straight forward to do if not a little fiddly. The main process was one of planning...
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Orangery Extension Part 30: Insulating And Plaster Board On External Wall And...
We have had a very busy couple of weeks, I called a plasterer round to quote for plastering of the Orangery Kitchen Extension, I was expecting him to give us a date of maybe two or three weeks in the...
View ArticleScrewfix Direct Miss Out On Another £180 Order
Last week I placed an urgent order with Screwfix, I paid extra on delivery to ensure that I got the order for Saturday so that I could get on with preparation for the plasterer to arrive.The order did...
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Happy Valentines… We Have A Kitchen
I hinted in the last update post that there may be some exciting news just ready for valentines day, well the kitchen was delivered today.All in all it has been a rather stressful day. At the beginning...
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How To Install Under Floor Heating – Ufh
If you have read the last few posts on this blog you will have seen that we have just installed hot water under floor heating in our new orangery kitchen extension. Several people have asked for e to...
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Orangery Extension Part 31: Fitting The Kitchen
We have spent the last two weekends fitting the kitchen in our kitchen orangery extension. We had a group of family and friends round last weekend to help get the first coats of paint on the walls and...
View ArticleSecond Kitchen Fitted In Less Than A Month
This weekend I have fitted the second kitchen this month! The first at our home in our kitchen orangery extension, and the second in one of our other properties that we are getting ready for sale.We...
View ArticleOrangery Kitchen Extension Progress Stalled
I have had an email from someone who has been following our kitchen orangery extension project on this blog asking how progress is going and why I have not posted about in a while. They were actually...
View ArticleContent Is Not King
I have just been reading an interesting article over on pro-blogger which was taking about measuring success of your blog. Throughout this article the guest writer Stephen Guise of Deep Existence...
View ArticleMedia Centre And Network Storage Solution
I have spent the past week moving 100′s of terabytes of data from disk to disk, trying to find the best solution for the central storage of my media.Let me back track a little and give some background,...
View ArticleCatchup On An Month Without Posting
I am ashamed to say it has been over a month since I last posted on this blog. Things round here have been rather busy, although that should not stop me keeping up my blogging.The honest truth is I...
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