Allotment progress
Fun in the Jungle
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Boiler repairs
We had to have a bunch of problems with our boiler rectified (after 5 years since installation). Fortunately (and to their credit), MoreSpace, the company who was responsible for the original install, agreed to put right those problems free of charge. Thank you MoreSpace for doing the following annoying and complicated jobs so professionally and properly:
Water ingress to boiler flue due to incorrect pitch and dodgy external joint:
Old plastic pressure relief pipe – doesn’t meet building regs:
Cutting a new hole to re-route the boiler flue in a better angle:
Digging under the deck to pass a 4m copper 22mm pipe underneath the kitchen to reach the boiler:
Will it work?
Like the good old days:
Changing the external exit of the flue:
Digging behind a bathroom cabinet to provide an access panel for boiler flue inspection:
Cutting the core out:
Ready:
Done:
Final result:
And inside, new flue joints installed and making good done: (just needs painting)
And the copper pressure relief piping:
Office renovations
We wanted to update the (messy) office, provide some storage to hide away some of the untidiness and make a more productive and calm environment in which to work… here’s 4 days of hard work to get there. And we’re pleased with the results.
Still some tidying to do…
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Halloween is always big on GG…this year it was special
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Sushi Making – October
See what happened when we went on a sushi making course in Wimbledon – and learnt all about how to make Japanese omelette, “fashion sandwich” and sushi/sashimi.
The mackerel and the salmon tasted amazing…
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Building a new front fence
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Our day out at the Olympics Final Saturday
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Party Wall Notices
Ever needed to serve a Party Wall Notice when doing building work on or to a shared wall?
Serving notices just got easier and you no longer need a surveyor to serve them conveniently:
Concreting on honeymoon
The honeymoon we always dreamed of – laying a concrete base for the new cycle shed…
First time I'd laid concrete and it worked out better than expected – though the shed is in a different place to how we'd planned – but better for it.
Bought ready mixed aggregate and cement and mixed it on a tarpaulin with a spade. We did 4 batches of 3 bags to get this lot in and then tamped it down with a wooden block. Now we wait 3 days before it's hard enough to erect the shed on.
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