Improvements in and around my home
Saturday 24th March With the Box room plastered and drying, we had a week to clear the other two first floor bedrooms, strip the wall paper and cover in green grit ready for the return of the plasterer. Once again I forgot to take any pictures prior to starting work. These pictures show the second…
Wednesday 14th March Having finally found yet another plasterer it was time to start work on the first floor bedrooms. First up was the box bedroom as this was to be used to store all of the cupboards and contents of the other two bedrooms whilst they were being worked on. I don’t have any…
Chris was on his own for the first day, but had help on the second, and left his helper to finish off on the third day. This is the result: No more raised beds Clear bottom end I think that as a result of the garden clearance we have claimed back a substantial part of…
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…