DIY - Part 4 - The dig

Ok, so above is what the dining room used to look like before the central heating was installed and below is what it looks like with the tiles lifted off. As the tiles are over a 100 years old I’m going to keep them and probably reuse them else…

DIY - Part 3 - Central Heating

Well after 5 days of Andy the Plumber and his team working, they’ve got a combi-boiler central heating system installed with 6 radiators and 1 towel rail. This makes all the difference as it’s nice and warm now (just in time for winter really!). Obviously you can see…

DIY - Part 2

So continuing on from stripping the front bedroom I moved onto the front room and dining rooms. The front room wasn’t that bad to do but the dining room was bad due to the old plaster coming away. The dining room also had polystyrene tiles on the ceiling and…

DIY - Part 1

So I’ve got a house and with owning a house comes maintenance….gulp and spending money……bigger gulp…….and lots of work……..So the first job was to strip the wallpaper and polystyrene tiles from the main bedroom. Problem was that due to a damp issue from the guttering…

The Woking Beer Festival

Attended the Woking Beer Festival with the lads at the leisure center and consumed some very tasty beer. My favorite of the afternoon was Wells & Young’s Winter Warmer but it should have been my last of the day. Unfortunately I popped into the local on the way back…