Category: household

  • HomeHack: fixing a leaking toilet cistern

    My toilet had started to have a perpetual leak of water from the cistern into the bowl. The valve on the water inlet was no longer sealing off properly.

  • Insulating my garage

    I’ve not spent a great deal of time in the garage in the last couple of months. Mostly because the work shop is not so appealing when it’s really cold. 

  • Gravelling the garden

    Last year, my girlfriend and I spent 3 days building decking in our garden which I blogged about at the time: The great decking project & Decking finished. It was always the intention to cover the rest of the garden with gravel to match some already there.

  • Wooden door latch

    A little while ago I was browsing the web, and I found an interesting site, that contained a number of wood working projects. 

  • Closing the door on a long standing todo.

    Some time ago I started a project…, OK quite a long time ago…, alright – I’m slightly embarrassed to admit it was over 2 years ago. My bedroom is pretty big so I decided it could stand to lose a couple of feet to have a decent size built-in wardrobe.

  • Decking video

    Last night Kat got around to cutting together the time lapse stuff of us building the decking, and we’ve uploaded it to YouTube: 

  • Decking finished!

    Decking project is now complete (well ish). Three days of labouring in the sunshine, which was very hot work but actually really nice in many ways. It’s great to be out of the office, doing something constructive. 

  • The great decking project

    I’ve lived in my house for a couple of years now and I’ve always meant to get around to doing something with the garden.