Visit this exciting static page to check on reports of what dynamic DIY projects and plans are on the not too distant Flat 2 horizon - watch with anticipation as we submit the latest images of our power tool triumphs - wonder at works in progress - recoil at the horrors revealed - and denounce DIY disasters.-

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So here are the first images of our DIY proposals
(click on the image to see it in full)

DIY set 1


from left to right:
-strip remaining walls in hall.
-finish and re-plaster walls in hall, & paint wood?
-get hole into downsatirs flats kitchen - in shower-room, fixed.

DIY set 2

from left to right:
-me in diy danger
-the theatre of war
-linds in diy danger
-the aftermath
(as ever click on the image to engorge our diy scourge)


DIY set 3


Another day another diy delight - here we spend our sunday - ripping more tiles off the walls, and also a huge tile covered panel (which hides the rotting wall and wood behind it), Deep Joy! The smell of damp and rotten wood fills the flat and our lungs MMmmmm. We have fought another battle, but the war has only just begun.

DIY set 4
Yes-even before one project finishes another one starts, and the evidence is above. Note the old wallpaper underneath two layers of tiles, plywood and then plaster board in the bathroom. We found some old brass spurs and a stetson in the gap between them.
"Come back y'all you hear, for our next installment"

DIY set 5

...The cupboard continues - using all my free time while im on holiday - great!

DIY set 6

...oh yes - In between dentistry and shopping i have continued with the cupboard - soon to house this pc that im typing on right now. Alas it is far from over.....

DIY set 7


for your pleasure, and very little of mine - it continues, and is nearing (for my part in the on-slaught) the end.

watch for the next riveting entry.

Oh yes - there are shelves now - see above the cupboard

DIY set 8
So here good people you are witnessing the last bouts of a long and arduous fight against wood, plaster, mdf, screws and 'No More nails'.

Many have fallen but one still stands - 'Uber-Linds'. Her might is strong and skill is cunning with paint & brush - she feels no fear in the presence of sand paper, and laughs in the face of quick drying polli-filla (from a tube). It may take days (& probably will) of manoeuver and tactics, but she will out-wit her opponent and defeat this dastardly diy deluge. Click the images below to see her in full flight of fight.....






DIY set 9
Below is the triumph that is the cupboard - that now holds my beloved pc.It is a master stoke - a genius a DIY Dream.
(click below on the screen to up size our DIY dream)

Applause is welcome and just - I thank you.......

DIY set 10

Because we are kindly considerate folk and recycle what we can, we decided to get the boxes of stuff out of the flat and make a home for them in the garden. Below are pictures of the progress - finished article will be posted when finished.....

...oh yes- all the wood has been salvaged from pallets and when i broke up my old studio, in keeping with the re-cycling theme.

......This DIY triumph has been bought to you today by the letters H, A, R, D, and S, L, O, G, and the numbers 7.00 (hours to make & paint).



I thank you. Drop by next time to see 'bathroom progress' - oh what joy and fun - with installments of false ceilings, plaster boarding, floor leveling, tiling etc etc. You know you cant wait....

DIY set 11

Arhh yes we spend the hottest weekend yet (last week end not this)of 2006 in our confined cell of a bath/shower-room. This windowless pit is an oven of darkness where the only light comes from the large halogen lamp (kindly lent to us by our electrician), who's brightness is matched by its deliverance of nuclear core heat. The plumber was long gone yet we still stood in puddles, these though were generated by our own fair bodies trying to damper the effects of this baking hinterland.

here are the snaps....



yes.... we tore back the bare walls and laid bare the lath and plaster - we hunted and swiftly dealt a blow to the ravages of our tall ceiling and laid it to rest a foot and a half lower.

Our rivals piled around us in heaps and the smell of canker rose from the debris. We set to and re-built the fair walls and shod it in the finest plaster board we could lay our hands on (jewsons - £6 a sheet). No evil will pentrate there in, as lain neath the boards is spun wool of rocks teasled by the fair maidens of Wickes. All in all- bish bash bosh - job done.

DIY set 12



another glorious Sunday relaxing in our bathroom, putting an underfloor down - avoiding the mulitude of pipes - tiling the walls and building a cupboard for th sink - what joy.

DIY set 13




Oh yes! - joy joy joy! Our bathroom takes shape and with our combined forces we 'heave ho' and challenge the foaming grey tides that drown us with continuous diy deluge. 'A hoy and yonder' is a fair coast of bathroom complete, and if the weather turns fair and the current is right we shall be pulled into its safe shore. We ride the waves and suffer the surf.........

DIY set 14



Yes my Diy dearios the sink is in, the radiator attached and the toilet plumbed in - oh hurrah and tears of no more nails joy. Its not quite over yet in the bathroom, so keep yourselves sharp and peeled for future updates. Arrrrr me harties

DIY set 15

and Joy! Joy! Joy! as we come closer and closer the the ending of the bathroom saga.Triumphantly after we grouted, shower doored, siliconed, floored etc Linds couldnt wait to jump in and test the water. To her Joy! Joy! Joy! it was most comfortable and of course i was there at hand to witness the occaision in pure blog format.

So for your own enjoyment please click on the images below to bathe in the glory of our becoming bathroom. Oh and yes i had to sensor the most whitest part of the image for the good of all eyes across the globe.

(remember to click on the images!)

DIY set 16

Yes - back again with an exciting update to show our progression with the darling diy projects. From health & safteyfying the hole in the ground to the maximisation of potential for the space under the stairs, and the continual rectifying of the old 50's Kitchen larder, we are triumphant and stand fast. Enlarge and enjoy.