Tag: House
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Where does the cold come from?
I recently had a thermal survey done by Snughome.ie as a precursor to doing any further remedial works on the property, such as changing out the windows. While not cheap, the data furnished (in the form of IR photos) is invaluable and points out several changes I can make that won’t cost a lot of…
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Renovating the studio – part 21
Today’s work was the skimming of the workshop, and dealing with a crack in the wall outside the bathroom. The crack in the wall outside of the bathroom looked like it might go all the way through the wall (as there’s a matching crack on the outside), but it turned out to just be settlement.…
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Boiler replaced
The new boiler is in – a Worcester Bosch Ri. Guy showed up at 0810, and worked through to about 1400. Network cable was piped in properly this time (instead of my hack), new flue (plastic instead of metal) has been installed, and condensate drain now goes to the ground drain and not the soil…
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Replacing the boiler
At the end of December, the soil stack at the back of the house clogged again. It turns out whoever installed the guttering down pipe did a shit job (pardon the pun), because they never flush-trimmed the down pipe where it entered the soil stack. Instead, it stuck into the stack by several inches, resulting…
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Dropping a ceiling
We took the trim off of the master bedroom wardrobe this morning to investigate whether there was a need to replace any of the ceiling after the entry of water into the property. What we found was ceiling plasterboard that wasn’t firmly attached to the ceiling joists, and signs of previous attempts to screw the…
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It’s a kitchen!
The kitchen has been installed, bar two doors – one for the dry goods cupboard (at least, that’s the current intent for it), and the fridge. The install took two days, with the main run going in on Monday, and the “dry” wall units going in on Tuesday. The fitter was a fairly tidy worker,…