Feels like massive progress as we see the MOT stone going down on top of the reduced depth earth oversite within the garage walls. I always find the building process endlessly fascinating and being part of it all unfolding at Moregeous HQ is ace! Missy Builder Cat clearly feels the same way, clamped to my... Continue Reading →
DoUpDiary #18 : Old Kitchens – Don’t skip em, sell ’em!
After 36 hrs in London away from home/site/chaos, I'm back and thrown right back into a mad week. The original kitchen which straddled the main house and the West Wing has now completely gone, partly as half was demolished when the West Wing was knocked down, and now this week as the ceiling to the... Continue Reading →
DoUpDiary #16 Sewer Sewer, quite contrary, where does your pipework flow?
So you get a dry May. A dry June. A dry July. You start site works and what do you get - the wettest August ever! I now have a garden mud bath of trenches, holes, rocks and rubble as the lads have endeavoured to find what exactly is happening with our original and quite... Continue Reading →
DoUpDiary #14: The Perfect Combo: Concrete & Calamari
It barely seems like the blink of an eye since the demolition started, but we've already gone through four different stages: giddy excitement, shock, dust loathing and mud crawling. As I sit eating a very late lunch (god bless M&S deli specials) on an outside step which was once inside, it's weird to be enjoying... Continue Reading →
DoUpDiary #12 : Builder Cat and the Big Boys Toys
Proper building sites need proper toys and thanks to Hire Station over in Trafford Park we've had some big hitters at Moregeous Mansions to wreak havoc in what was once my garden / home / world. In just two weeks we've gone from a slightly battered but relatively normal home to a rubble filled tip... Continue Reading →
DoUpDiary #9: Up on the Scaffolding in Our Onesies
Well, there's no going back now. The West Wing is most definitely kaput and I'm feeling elated about it, in a weird & slightly hysterical manner. I keep looking at it and laughing, not *quite* believing it's almost all gone. First the beautiful roof slates came carefully off, stacked ready to be re-used in the... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary #8: The Detailed House Plans
So, you already know that the West Wing is going and being replaced with a new construction broadly the same size, slightly wider, but what else is happening? Seriously, I don't even know where to start other than we must be mad! In for a penny, in for a pound, we decided if we were really going... Continue Reading →
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