Emergency!! Who you gonna call?

Emergency!! Who you gonna call?

Picture this if you will…   EMERGENCY!!   After a long hard day at work, you’re finally home with your family. The kids are fed and you’re all comfortably resting together in your living room. The children engrossed in the imaginative use of their...
Tiling Your Bathroom Like A Pro

Tiling Your Bathroom Like A Pro

With an almost unlimited choice of patterns, textures and colours to please even the most fastidious tastes. Bathroom tiles are the obvious choice for lining your bathroom or shower area. Although some people consider leaving it to the professionals. Most bathrooms...
6 Days To A New Bathroom

6 Days To A New Bathroom

This was a job I did for a lady in Rochdale, Lancashire, England.   She wanted a brand new bathroom suite fitting.   With all the associated bells, flutes and whistles to boot. But… I only had 6 days to do it. The job came with two other major...
Disaster

Disaster

Yesterday (2008)… All my troubles seemed so far away…   I was completely out of it. The body beautiful had finally given up on me. And I was in hospital undergoing an operation. Where due diligence required that I was to be put to sleep.   Almost eighteen...
Intensified?

Intensified?

As you might very correctly imagine…   I’m on a hell of a lot of mailing lists these days. Partly because I’m totally enthralled by all the tricks of the marketing trade (yes I really am that sad). And partly because I’m a sucker for anything that costs far...
A Whole House Refurbishment

A Whole House Refurbishment

On initial purchase, this house was the product of two houses…   Or rather, it was a house and a corner shop, roughly knocked into one. In the image below, Living room 2 and Bedroom 2 was what used to be the old corner shop area.     The...
Ikea… The Revenge of the Vikings

Ikea… The Revenge of the Vikings

Sometime around the mid 1980’s…   Three middle-aged blokes called Bjorn, Olaf, and Sven were sitting in an Ikea office on an industrial estate in southern Sweden…   It was winter and it was Scandinavia, so it was dark and cold and miserable. The three...
The Little White Cloud that Cried

The Little White Cloud that Cried

Once upon a time there was a cloud…   And as is typically usual with many clouds just like it, we had rain falling from it. But when that rain falls, it falls on what is commonly called a catchment. And the catchment is the area that surprisingly ‘catches’...
The Electric Drill

The Electric Drill

DIY enthusiasts all around the world can thank an Aussie for this indispensable piece of equipment.   The Electric Drill.   It was way back in 1889, that Australian electrical engineer Arthur James Arnot patented the world’s first electric drill. And...
All About Kitchen Appliances

All About Kitchen Appliances

The array of different design styles and specifications for the wide range of kitchen appliances available today can be bewildering.   However, selecting the right products for your kitchen is an essential part of the planning process. Which is why I have...

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