Improvements in and around my home
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…
Thursday 2nd March, Friday 3rd MarchMuch of the daytime was spent with my wife stripping wallpaper again, worried that the lounge/dining room area will not be ready for the plasterer on Monday. The main worry was how long it would take to remove the paper from the ceiling. As it turns out, the ceiling paper…
Tuesday 28th February The work on the Hall, Stairs and Landing started whilst we were waiting for the plasterer to start on the Thursday. My wife performed the majority of the paper stripping during the day whilst I was at work, I then helped out in the evenings. The area around the shower room door…
We have decided that it is finally time to re-decorate the house, with slightly more than just an extra coat of paint. Many of the rooms still have the wallpaper from before I moved in over 20+ years ago, albeit with several coats of paint on top. I also know that some of the walls…
After a delay of nearly 2 months, the tap finally arrived, so it was finally time to finish off all of the plumbing for the sink. First I decided where the tap was going to be fitted and drilled a suitable sized hole to mount it using a spade bit. The solid copper tails that…
I am sure there are people out there who will be wondering exactly what all the components are that make up my cinema system, as such this post is for them. I will break this post up into several sections to cover source items, control items and playback items. Source The age old argument states…