Show us yer house and house-related meddlings
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bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
The green and brown leather looks ace.
This thread is giving me old floorboard envy
I’ve decided when the lodgers all thin out for the snow board season i’m Going to keep the house empty and go to town on it. It’s currently in exactly the same decor that it came with when i bought it off old people
Thank you for the inspiration
This thread is giving me old floorboard envy
I’ve decided when the lodgers all thin out for the snow board season i’m Going to keep the house empty and go to town on it. It’s currently in exactly the same decor that it came with when i bought it off old people
Thank you for the inspiration
Deep tone base paints in the UK don't cover well at all. I've tried all brands and even with brush coating alternate ways the coverage is crap.
You can see England doesn't get strong winds from that roof structure!
astral
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Interesting. I've used other very dark colours which haven't had this problem - notably a very dark Dulux grey and a very dark Valspar special edition blue called Merlin. I'd not realised it was a generic issue, although my best friend had a similar issue with a navy paint.
not-bono-ever
meh
Mate who is an artist/ Carpenter brought around the sketches for the kitchen he is going to build for us- budget is much less than anything the usual kitchen vendors offered- all hand builtlocal car paint shop will be spraying the cupboards with seriously hardwearing indusrtial paint - i did not know this was a thing
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not-bono-ever
meh
make sure you are not around when they start pissing about with supporting walls- it is scarey
That's a gorgeous house kabbes
I've redecorated the living room. Somehow ignoring that there are still rooms in my house I've not done once yet, redoing this one became a top priority.
I am very pleased with it though.View attachment 148005
Oh wow Eames Lounge and same woodburner as us!
Had an entirely new central heating system put in four years ago and was told today it needs flushing out and refilling with new inhibitor added because of all the corrosion, he showed me the water and it was filthy brown and gunky.
The rust can only be coming from inside the radiators, right? If they're already rusting at that rate I wonder how long they'll last!
The rust can only be coming from inside the radiators, right? If they're already rusting at that rate I wonder how long they'll last!
maomao
普費斯
It's not necessarily rust. I've just had to have a power flush despite having a magnetic filter on the system which had picked up very little. Limescale and other crap. Get a company that does it properly, tests your water before and after and shows you each radiator on a thermal camera before and after. We had it done two years ago by a bloke who spent two hours standing in the garden smoking and watching his machine. Hence having to have it done again. The bloke I just had do it massaged each radiator individually with a hammer drill and spent five hours at it. Fingers crossed we won't need another one.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Got the rug and table today, La Redoute items sold for a hefty discount on eBay. That's the lounge done now except for art on the walls.
Also crawled around multiple times in the subterranean hellscape that is under our floor, with 100 years of dust and rubbish, in order to run speaker and network cables. Bought my first drill to put holes in the floor and noone died. However there was one evening when I couldn't find my phone, rang it, and a tune resonated from underground. Whoops. Back I went...
Also crawled around multiple times in the subterranean hellscape that is under our floor, with 100 years of dust and rubbish, in order to run speaker and network cables. Bought my first drill to put holes in the floor and noone died. However there was one evening when I couldn't find my phone, rang it, and a tune resonated from underground. Whoops. Back I went...
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Baronage-Phase
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
at the stained glass window - is that original?and
at the old habit of getting a 'stair carpet' about 18 inches wide. mum-tat's house (mid 30s and currently lacking a stair carpet) shows signs of that
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
The temporary kitchenette in my bathroom was getting a bit too disgusting - I was supposed to have the whole upstairs fixed by now and the kitchenette would have moved to the back bedroom, but I'm naturally running a tad late 
So today I've put a back on it so stuff won't fall over into the rest of the airing cupboard, and inverted the worktop.
I've added a couple of shelves and generally starting to get stuff off the work surface.
It has the side benefit that it was MDF I'd had for years and would otherwise have to be carted downstairs prior to the bedroom floor coming up.
Hopefully I will be inspired to cook some more interesting food
I now need to fit some LED task lighting.
So today I've put a back on it so stuff won't fall over into the rest of the airing cupboard, and inverted the worktop.
I've added a couple of shelves and generally starting to get stuff off the work surface.
It has the side benefit that it was MDF I'd had for years and would otherwise have to be carted downstairs prior to the bedroom floor coming up.
Hopefully I will be inspired to cook some more interesting food
I now need to fit some LED task lighting.
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maomao
普費斯
I'm happy to swap my Romford hovel for your Surrey mansion if that's what you'd like.
Johnny Doe
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I didn't really notice the flower beds at the front of our new house when I bought it. But these have just appeared!
Manter
Lunch Mob
Beautiful!That's a gorgeous house kabbes
I've redecorated the living room. Somehow ignoring that there are still rooms in my house I've not done once yet, redoing this one became a top priority.
I am very pleased with it though.View attachment 148005
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
A follow-on from my teeny amount of meddling in the bathroom / kitchen ...
So I thought I was doing well - bunged a nice long screw through the overlapping sheets of 12mm MDF and the whole thing firmed up lovely ...
... thanks to tapping neatly into the hot water tank.
I couldn't face draining the tank and soldering it - I can't locate my plumber's solder in any case ...
Thankfully I had some Milliput two part epoxy putty as favoured by @Mrs Magpie for denture repair - so I enlarged the hole slightly and worked it in and the water stopped
Then I dried the area and mixed up some two part epoxy and stuck on a copper patch rather than aluminium beer can so any thermal expansion would be similar ...
Touch wood it's holding and it meant I finally got around to fitting a replacement float valve to stop the leak I'd been failing to deal with for some time ...
My fallback position for my weekly bath is a dodgy, slightly tingly Chinese 2.5KW immersible heater ...
So I thought I was doing well - bunged a nice long screw through the overlapping sheets of 12mm MDF and the whole thing firmed up lovely ...
... thanks to tapping neatly into the hot water tank.
I couldn't face draining the tank and soldering it - I can't locate my plumber's solder in any case ...
Thankfully I had some Milliput two part epoxy putty as favoured by @Mrs Magpie for denture repair - so I enlarged the hole slightly and worked it in and the water stopped
Then I dried the area and mixed up some two part epoxy and stuck on a copper patch rather than aluminium beer can so any thermal expansion would be similar ...
Touch wood it's holding and it meant I finally got around to fitting a replacement float valve to stop the leak I'd been failing to deal with for some time ...
My fallback position for my weekly bath is a dodgy, slightly tingly Chinese 2.5KW immersible heater ...
