Improvements in and around my home
We had been looking to clear some of the back garden for quite some time, and much of it was seriously overgrown. We chose to make use of Chris, who is the father of one of my daughter’s friends from school. Here are a few pictures taken shortly after he started work: The raised beds…
I purchased 3 x 10 litre tubs of Sandtex smooth pure brilliant white paint from Wickes, as they were having a 10% off option if you ordered via click and collect, and this made them the cheapest supplier. I painted as much as I could from the ground or with a short step ladder, then…
On returning from holiday this year, I was out of work for a few months, so I took the opportunity to perform some renovations to the exterior of the house. The main focus was on painting the exterior, which was to be honest, seriously overdue. Here are some pictures of the exterior before the work…
Having installed all of my hard drives and upgraded CPU in the HP Microserver, I needed to install an OS. I initially installed Debian Jessie, but after noting that this was not supported by Docker as a base build, I re-installed with Ubuntu Server 16.04.02 LTS. Whilst I currently have a screen and keyboard attached to the server, which were useful…
Sunday 16th April With the flooring complete, I could now concentrate on fitting the skirting boards. I am not a big fan of quadrant with wood flooring, so I left the skirting until after the flooring was done, so that I can have nice clean lines at the edge of the room. The only joins…
Having decided I wanted to build a new media server, the first decision was what hardware to use. A few years back I had been intending to build one using a 9 bay tower case with multiple 4 sata disk enclosures, running Solaris x86 and ZFS. I even bought a couple of 8 port sas/sata…
These posts concerning my media server build do not really fit in any of my other blogs, and since it is something now used by everyone in the house, I thought this blog would be the best place for it. A number of years ago I set up a dedicated NAS unit using a QNAP…
Friday 7th April The flooring I had ordered on Wednesday arrived bright and early at 07:30. I ordered 45 packs of engineered oak flooring in 1.1m lengths, which should be enough for the lounge/dingng room area as well as the family room/new office. Here it is stacked in the dining room. Saturday 8th April Started…
Saturday 25th March Wash coat of 50% paint 50% water applied to the walls and ceiling as a sealing coat. Front door. Lounge doorway View up the stairs. First floor landing View back down the stairs. Saturday 1st April First coat of white paint applied to walls and ceiling. Front door Lounge door way. View…
Saturday 20th March My wife started with sugar soaping the walls in preparation for painting, whilst I performed some more clearing up in preparation for removing the lalinate flooring This is the lounge after the flooring had been pulled up likewise for the dining room. My daughter can be seen in this photo dancing to…