I wasn’t expecting Ecobuild to be quite so large. Ecobuild is a whole Earl’s Court-full exhibition devoted to green building. And a surprising amount of it was about windows.
I was hoping that I would be blown away by some new developments, but I can’t say I was. However, there was a lot of practical and [...]
Here’s a concept - stop me if you’ve heard it before - how about you only pay for what you use? Those clever folks at the electricity and gas companies have been at it for years: install a meter and then charge your customers for what they actually use. Clever idea really. Much like the [...]
That’s what you’d have seen if you came down my road yesterday morning. (At least if you were walking - if you were driving, you’d have seen one which said ‘Road Closed’). Yesterday, was ‘Crane’ day. We’ve been waiting a long long time for this to happen - we had to close off the street [...]
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 [...]
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