Removing the shower and basin units has been relatively easy as part of our bathroom gut job. Having not done this kind of thing before, removing the ceramic floor tiles has posed several challenges. As with most things though, it just requires some strategic thinking and the right tools.
When working on DIY projects that make a lot of mess and dust inside the house, we try to keep things as contained and clean as possible. When gutting our…
When we moved into our new property, we inherited a small wood supply consisting of offcuts and small logs from the previous owners. We have two wood burning stoves inside the house, and we needed a tool that would allow us to cut some of the logs so that they would fit in our Chesney stoves.
Last week Friday, as we were heading to bed, we discovered water leaking through our hallway ceiling. Leaks of this nature are scary. We turned the stopcock off, but the leak persisted. Upon checking the central heating pressure, it was through the roof. We turned our heating off and bled some radiators to get the pressure down. It worked.
After a series of annoying leaks in our master bathroom (more on that saga later) we decided that enough was enough and that we were going to gut and redo it. Since we are going to do most of the removal work ourselves, my wife purchased us a couple of pairs of VGO Cut Resistant Gloves.
We use an 11kg propane gas cylinder that’s connected to our oven. It is located outside, and needs replacing every 3-4 months. Changing it is a simple exercise, but there are a couple of small tips for those that are uninitiated and have not done this before. This article is a simple step-by-step guide on how to change your propane gas cylinder in the UK.
We eat a lot of vegetables, and since we’ve moved to the countryside we’ve been experimenting with what we can successfully grow ourselves. Over the summer, we grew Isobel onions from seed, and they were extremely flavoursome and a bug success. We purchased a bag of Taylor’s Electric onions from our local garden centre, a winter onion, to get an early harvest next year.
I’ve received a couple of questions about the wellington boots I have worn in some of my YouTube video. I’ll be honest – I wasn’t fully onboard when my wife said she was ordering me a new pair of Hunter wellies. I felt that the price tag for wellington boots was a tad high. Two years later, it’s one of the best purchases she’s made.
We love garlic, and today we’re going down the road of growing our own. The plan earlier this year was to plant out a 9x9m area in our field with garlic. For several reasons that we’re not going to go into, I’ve decided to scale this down.