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No problem - I’ve been in a similar position and it was shit. I’m glad things are still progressing, keep the updates coming!
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It can be such a rollercoaster can’t it, very exciting parts but very low lows.. no other option but to keep going I guess.. mum and dad are up again which is always really productive but just reassuring too. Mum was filling and sanding all the mail holes in the door surrounds and dad and I started on making the kitchen cabinet doors. Just 3 more to go tomorrow and we can start on cladding the frame behind the kitchen island. They’ve all to get perfectly squared off and things, but that will come when we’re getting the sanding and oiling done.
@Howard @stevo_com That’s a great heads up, thank you very much for that! She’s a sneaky thing and has ruined a couple plants using them so I wouldn’t put it past her. I swear some of our tomatoes our first year here had an ammonia aftertaste..
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Hiya bud, thanks for checking in, I really appreciate it! That comment from the other day helped more than you could know.
No further forward with the stove, but they’re going to come out and sort it. We tried lighting it the other day and smoke came out through the bottom so it definitely needs an air inlet duct into the bottom to help with pulling the smoke up the flue. Stopped in at them on Monday and they’ve said they’ll come out to do it all at once.
After that I visited the quarry the other day too and have secured all the stone for building the porch, I’m really quite excited about that! Just getting details of how much lime etc we need and I’ll order it all in one go. Hopefully it’ll just take two trucks to carry it all as the ferry isn’t cheap.
I put another coat of paint on the kitchen wall before the kitchen started this week and really happy with the colour and how the units/worktop will sit against it. We didn’t buy anniversary presents for each other this year as we’re way too broke with rent, a mortgage and some major invoices just now, but were feeling sorry for ourselves and gave in to buying this wall light instead for the wall between the porch door and the bathroom.
We got a dry day yesterday so got the downpipes on to keep water off the wood cladding and then dug a trench for the electric ducting going into the workshop (and then a drainage trench to get the water out the first one..)