Well, our builders have been busy. We now have a brand new hot water and central heating system, and a flat that’s nowhere close to being lived in. In fact, most of everything has been ripped out.
And then they stopped working. So our flat’s been a bit of a mess for a while. However, things [...]
I’ve never been quite so excited about a toilet before. Well, maybe that time my running team was coming back from Hastings with a case of beer and the toilet on the train wasn’t working. This is something completely different though. Today, I took delivery of 2 wonderful low water toilets. These days we see [...]
Just when you thought Google had an application for just about anything you wanted (you’ve already explored the Earth, then you went to the stars), you find out that they have something to help you re-design your whole flat. I don’t really know how to say this, other than - it’s AMAZING. We’ve been struggling [...]
You might wonder why we overhauled the heating system in the first place. After all, you’ve got to figure that leaving things as they are has less of an environmental impact that refurbishing something. Well, this flat had a bit of a bizarre heating system, especially given its size. It had a combi boiler feeding [...]
OK, so you know you’re obsessed with your refurb when you talk to people about the boilers they’re putting in and get all excited about flow rates and energy ratings. Well, in our place, the choice of boilers came down to this: Volkswagen or Mercedes. I had spent a fair while researching the very best [...]
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