2009/07/05 18:05
A year and a half ago, shortly after moving into our house in Newton Mearns, we decided to buy a lean-to greenhouse.I found one on B&Q's website at a reasonable price. I didn't say anything about assembly, so I presumed it probably was reasonably easy.It arrived at seven big bunches of aluminium sticks and three packets of toughened glass.All I...
2008/02/13 23:28
In order to move our kitchen into the adjacent narrow room, we need to get a building warrant from the council.Till now, we thought we needed an architect for that, but Phyllis talked to them today and found out that they will accept a home-made drawing, so long as it is to scale etc.So now we just need to do...
2010/03/30 23:39
Last night, I noticed a small wet spot on the duvet, but we decided to sleep normally.
However, at 7am, Phyllis woke me up because she had noticed the sound of water while breastfeeding, and true enough, my feet were wet.
At first, we thought it was the radiator in my office that had burst, but checking the on-off timer on the boiler revealed that this couldn’t be the problem.
So I went up to the office with some water and poured it onto the roof until Phyllis alerted me from downstairs that it was pouring in.
It seems to be a wee crack on the side of the outside window ledge.
The reason it started now must have been because the rain is coming from the east, which is unusual for the west of Scotland.
I’ve tried to block the hole a bit, but I guess I need dry weather to do a proper job, so that we can reclaim our bed!
2008/07/08 22:22
We're in the process of moving the kitchen to another room.So far, we've got gas and electricity put into the new kitchen, we've painted the walls, Dougie put up new lights, and I'm nearly done laying a nice laminate floor.Today Ikea then delivered all the units – as you can see from the photo, there are a lot of boxes!I'm sure that will provide lots of weekend entertainment for the whole family for many weeks to come.We still have to...
2008/05/27 22:51
We've now stripped the future kitchen complete bare – I've even removed the laminate flooring.Next week, the plan says we'll get an electrician and a plumber round to put in electricity, gas and water.After that, we just need to buy a kitchen and install it. Easy!So at the moment, we've browsing through kitchen catalogues to choose everything from worktops over...
2008/01/11 19:05
We've finally sold my flat in Rose Street!!!The offer came in six weeks ago, but the missives were only signed two days ago, and the money didn't reach my lawyer till today, which is why I'm only blogging it now.We...
2007/10/30 22:48
I floored most of the flat using Ikea's fine Balk real wood floor, which looks great and was easy to lay (although it has a slight problem with widening gaps between the planks in busy areas).In the kitchen, I used...
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