Ralph’s here for a few days, continuing to convert our shower-room into a wet-room. During this visit, he’s mainly concentrated on the false wall needed to hide the waste flow coming from the re-positioned loo. Other jobs included planning out the electrics for the new bits and pieces and plumbing in the thermostatic mixer. If …
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Another Brick in the Wall…
Ralph’s been here this week from Tuesday to Friday making excellent progress with the wet-room. This week he’s positioned the towel rail and the loo and also fitted the wooden frame for the false wall. Nice one Ralph – we appreciate your expertise and fantastic attention to detail! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late …
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Pipe Dreams
Ralph’s been here this week progressing our wet-room project. This week he turned his attention to connecting-up the water supply to the wall-mounted loo, the shower and the new basin. Next phase: the framework for the false-wall and the fitting of the gulley. Wet Articles Wet, wet, wet (week 1) Wet, Wet, Wet …and the …
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Wet, Wet, Wet: Phase 3
Ralph joined us today for the rest of the week to resume his great work on the conversion of our shower-room into a wet-room. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its …
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Wet, Wet, Wet
Ralph’s here this week, for phase 2, weaving his plumbing and project management skills on our ex-shower-room that will ultimately become a ‘wet-room’. There’s not much to see currently except: floor-boards, exposed cabling, plaster-board and lots of empty space!, but he has the vision and we have the cash! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite …
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Busy, Busy…and it’s only 10am!
I rose early (no, really!) to get on with restoring Julie T’s PC to its former glory. It all went very well, and four hours later everything is now running as it should. I just need to locate her Outlook ‘pst’ email file and the job is done. It’s now better, faster and stronger than …
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Wet, wet, wet (week 1)
Ralph’s done a great job in starting to transform our en-suite into a wet room. All the furniture is out, and all the tiles that need to be removed have been. The separating wall between the shower and the sink/loo is also no-more. The only thing that slowed him down was the save-the-planet-by-recycling-everything-mentality at the …
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…and the transformation begins…
We cleared out the tip shower-room this afternoon in preparation for its transformation into a wet-room. It was amazing how many toiletries had piled up in there over the years – no wonder we think the room’s too small! Five types of shampoo, four types of conditioners…and don’t even mention my after-shaves! By 5pm, it …
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Licensed to Drill
The first stage of returning the Mondeo to the Lease Company began today. The paperwork arrived from DVLA now that I’ve de-registered the personal plate. The car gets back the original registration mark from three years ago, so all I need to do, is whip off the existing plates, and put …
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Turning our wet room into err, a Wet-Room!
For a while now, having tried to swing a cat in the shower room – we found we couldn’t! – either we (or the cats) are getting larger or the room is shrinking, whatever is it, there just doesn’t seem to be enough room in there anymore. Add to that, the fact that it never …
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Shower sorted!!!
Ralph has sorted out our leaking shower tray – nice one Ralph!!! Facilities have now been restored at Pemberley Grange!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a …
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The Final Touch
We popped down to Lee’s to put up the picture she’s been waiting for. It had been on order, but out of stock at Laura Ashley‘s. But luckily, Ann spotted it in the local Laura Ashley last week and snapped it up. Good job she she did, because it’s now discontinued!! Steve PalmerI got into …
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Busy Saturday
We’re planning to go to Kelmarsh Hall later today to see English Heritage’s ‘2010 Festival of History’. Ann’s friend Nicki joined and we just had time to whizz down to Lee’s to assemble her new bed and then returning home for a quick lunch. By 12.30 lunch was almost ready, however, the weather still looked …
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Personal Website re-launched
A bit of a quiet week here business-wise, so it was a good opportunity to finish off the re-design of my personal website. Actually, I’d been tinkering with it all week but for some reason, I’d not being particularly productive with it all. So, with grim determination, resulting in some significant re-design along the way, …
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A Very Productive Day…
It’s Bank Holiday Monday, so time for a lay-in and a lazy day – yeah right!!! I was up at 6.30 and Ann, not long after, at 7.15. We’ve got plans to plant all the err.. plants bought from Bosworth’s yesterday AND to get a coat of emulsion on the kitchen ceiling. Add to that, …
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