Boarding the loft

On Monday I got round to doing some work in the loft as I had a day off in lieu from my day job. The aim for the loft project was to board the entire loft and insulate the tunnel which provides light into the bathroom via the Velux window…

Andy and the Slate Roof

Having spent the week off work, I managed to finish the shed roof in slate which was a remarkable improvement from the corrigated iron roof before. I essentially built a wooden frame on top of the brickwork and then put on some roofing felt. Once that was tacked onto the…

The wall gets rebuilt

Yes, after a week of time and effort, Rick has finished rebuilding the top part of the back wall. Unfortunately, as Ricks getting on a bit and is no longer a spring chicken it came down to me to make lots of tea, mix up cement and run around collecting…

The wall comes crashing down

Well, not crashing down but with some brute force machine assistance. Now the back wall as been in a sorry state for a while ever since I moved in and I’ve finally got round to doing something about it with my neighbors cooperation. So using a demolition hammer we’…

ZFS fun and games

In changing anything you run the risk of running into unseen problems and that’s just what happened when I attempted to upgrade the power supply in my main system. I was upgrading to a higher capacity PSU in order to cope with the 7 disk drives, a tape device,…