Improvements in and around my home
Wednesday 7th September I worked from home today, so that I could discuss the design with Ben. He was interested in my changes, but pointed out a few things that may need adjustment. With Victorian tiling, it is not simply a case of lay your edge pattern around the outside edge and then fill the…
My wife has been hankering after a victirian style tiled hallway for a number of years, so now seemed as good a time as any to go ahead with the project. A design was chosen from a Victorian tiling catalogue and the tiles were ordered and collected from Youens Tile Centre in Rayners Lane. We…
Monday 5th September Today they put down another sheet of weed resistant matting and created the boundry between my property and the other half of the semi-detatched property. View from the front door. View from neighbor’s driveway. View from the end of the drive. Tuesday 6th September Before my neighbor converted their garage into living…
For a number of years now we have wanted to replace our driveway, however we decided to wait until the garage conversion was complete, or at least sufficiently complete that no more digging on the drive was expected. We contracted Mick Judge of Judge Paving to perform the work for us, having previously used him to…
Saturday 3rd September First job of the day was to fit the end panel, this just needed about 10mm removing from the bottom edge, and then a cut-out for the washing machine pipes and plug that will also be used by the tumble dryer plug. Next up was the plinths, I cut the first piece…