Category: House
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Wall
Does this count for today? My challenge my rules, I guess. Certainly took enough concentration. This is what these trials were for. The end result is kind of fun, and I didn’t get too messy. The colours are all echoed in the picture hanging over it. I’ve enjoyed painting on my walls ever since I…
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Saving the dead dinosaurs
I have lots of things I could blog about, like a new electric car, a work trip to Costa Rica, the StaffPlus conference I attended last week, or maybe trying to take the tip off my index finger (would absolutely not recommend). But I’m really excited right now in the most middle aged way because…
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2022 done
And 2022 went whoosh. It was a year of house projects, really. We both settled into the jobs we started last year and got used to the rhythms. We’re getting there, slowly getting used to being just slightly out of sync (Clarkie works early, I work late, I have Saturday/Sunday weekends, Clarkie has Sunday/Monday). It’s…
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Replacements
The electrician party I thought we were going to be throwing in my last post did not, in fact, happen. Sadly, the electrician who was supposed to be fitting the infrared panels let us down. Twice. On the Monday he emailed to say he had stomach issues, he’d be with us on Saturday. On the…
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All at once
I had a couple of big house projects in mind at the start of the year, and for various reasons both got delayed. And that has meant that suddenly, both happened at the same time. This was really not the plan. To be fair, the shower in our en-suite bathroom mostly stopped working reliably back…
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Domestic Disarray
That title might be a bit strong, I don’t know. But I liked the alliteration, and it’s closer than disaster. There have just been a couple of irritations over the last couple of weeks. First up, our washing machine. The machine came with the house, because we went with the in-built appliances option on our…
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New front door
I am always looking for ways to reduce our on-going energy and water costs. This is an old habit, from back when I first worked out how long I was going to have to have a job for in my early 20s, although it has extra resonance with the current cost of energy increases. The…
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Infrared heating
Back in February I posted some thoughts about the house and heating, and came to almost precisely no conclusion. But I was quite intrigued by the infrared heating option, and as it happens, Herschel do an under desk heating panel. I’m in my home office at my desk all day, and I actually get pretty…
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Aeons (but finished!)
I have a confession to make today about exactly how long a certain project has taken me to finish. But first, in a follow up from my last post about heating options, this week I bought an 220W underdesk heater from Herschel. It’s an infrared panel heater, which at 220W is significantly lower powered than…
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Heating up
Back in September I mentioned that I was thinking about some big home improvement projects. These are driven by a desire to have a warm and toasty house but also reduced bills, with a side helping of being more ecologically sound, but I’m mainly thinking of getting off gas. At the moment gas is much…
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Window Ledge Review
It’s time for my seasonal office plants to go now, I think. I’m genuinely bad at knowing when it’s time for plants to be done, but in this case they are blocking my office window. That was part of the plan during the summer, to try and keep the room a bit cooler – not…
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Shortages
I’m dreaming of big household projects again. I want to add to our roof of solar panels. We can apparently fit 20 up on our main roof, and I think we could get a few more on our (south facing) garage roof too. We’d need a battery. Then we’d ‘just’ have to replace our boiler…