If I were a betting man, I’d bet you wanted to know more about how things ended with roof guy (now that we’re back). Maybe I’d win, maybe not, but that’s what this post is going to be about (feel free to disagree with me in the comments below).
Roof guy: the good, the bad and the ugly Read More »
Yep, you’ve read that right. We moved. It took me some time to find a new host. Given that I had no clue where to start, and that most people online just give you the advice to sign up with the host that pays them the most, it certainly isn’t an easy task. But I
And then we moved Read More »
No, not housewise. That’s still going stronger than ever. Serverwise though, that’s a completely other story…
So we need to move… Read More »
Do you? You know, that guy that didn’t show up for two months after setting up shop? Only to take four weeks before our attic no longer was any subject to weather? While he claimed it wouldn’t take much more than three weeks to have it completely finished? That guy we found out to be rather less than
Remember roof guy? Read More »
With the insulation out of the way (but not completely done yet, more on that later), Â we were going to tackle the walls. You know, those ugly brick walls. I’m sure you remember them from laying out the kitchen part of electric cables. If not, you’ll surely remember them after this post (as it’s all
Prepping those walls Read More »
After the floor came the next step towards our new kitchen: insulating the little flat roof that’s keeping the weather outside of our kitchen. Insulation is also the magical word when renovating, so we couldn’t escape it. Not that we ‘d want that, of course.
Fun with insulation Read More »
Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes everything goes according to plan. Sometimes you have to improvise. Lately we had a mixture of both. There was some great progress according to plan in the flooring department. There were setbacks in the roofing department. And then there was this issue just above the upper window.
Beam replacement on-the-fly Read More »
The end of the marathon is near! After half a year of living without actual floor (thanks to roof guy and some unforeseen circumstances) we were finally ready to have our new floor in place. And what a floor that will be.
Getting tiles done Read More »
I’ll start by bringing a memory back from a while ago: getting rid of the old floors. At the end I told about what the future would bring, up to the new tiles: concrete, wiring and plumbing, insulation, tiles. You have three guesses where we are now. Go! Well done! The insulation is where we
Insulation on the floor Read More »
With the water tubing in place, I rolled out quite a lot of electrical cabling (those of you that already noticed in the photos, well done!). As with the water this required some planning beforehand, as we were trying to find out what we wanted to go where. But we managed, and how!
More laying out: electric cables Read More »