One of our more agonizing decisions in our kitchen-dining room conversion was settling on a dining table. We had wandered around various furniture establishments with a sample of the wood grain top to be used on the dining area cupboards,…

Murphy’s Law is generally quoted thus: If anything can go wrong, it will. Complete tosh, of course, since there’s always something that can go wrong but our flooring episode was beginning to make me doubt my rationality. [Francine, of course,…

… or Rapunzel Reprised. My last post was on 18th August, so we’ve clearly had a 5-week hiatus. The intervening time has had our Flooring Man arguing the toss with Moduleo, the suppliers of our defective flooring. Going into any…

Last week we were floored and were very happy with the service and overall appearance. That lasted until Francine tried to clean up what she had assumed was a small patch of glue. [Baby wipes are the thing for removing…

Flooring Man had screeded more or less the whole of our ground floor and left fans blowing over it to help dry it out. However, the weather has been v. humid so the screed did not dry sufficiently overnight Thursday…

Our Flooring Man had had a cancellation and had offered Francine the possibility of getting our new flooring down on this Thursday and Friday. “Why on earth not?”, we thought. Not content with having just the newly developed kitchen-diner done,…

There had been some debate as to how long our “Structural Addition” would take to harden before it was ready to accept our new “push-fit” induction hob. [No longer are there clamps positioned beneath the lower surface of the worktop…

Oh, wait, no, apparently this is NOT a repair. Having discovered that the hole in the worktop for our hob was “sub-optimal”, i.e 30mm too large, Ultrawood Interiors, who have themselves been superb, were as miffed as we were that…

.. and what a howler. Having had our worktop templates made a little over two weeks ago, today they were being fitted. Excitement was high; we’d soon be able to use our new hob. Our fastidious Fitter Man #1 said…

It’s quite amazing how having work like this done on ones house makes weekends special again. We don’t have to be up and dressed ready to receive workmen at 08:00 on Saturday and Sunday. This was our 5th weekend and…