Hey all been a few months since I posted an update and while nothing major has changed there has still been activity ongoing.
The hallway is being held up due to replacement floorboards not being available. There is a company locally that are getting floorboards in that are slightly wider than mine, ours are 140mm where as the others are 150mm) which should works as are only about 2m from the door into the hallway and there should be a runner down and some furniture/sofa disguising this difference.... hopefully.
so hallway is unchanged from earlier.
However with shelf I routered for the lighting we had a bit of a disaster fitting that, we decided to move the shelf brackets to assist with the new channelling I put in and when I drilled the wall I hit an electrical cable that caused the power to short in the kitchem.
We move the backet over just slightly and drilled the holes wirh no issues. But to fix the cablign issue, the lovely tiling had to come off, electrician came out and fixed the cabling and then tiler came out and retiled the tiles I had removed, with new spare tiles we had left over.
One of the holes I had drilled for the new location was on a tile that had to be removed so I quickly redrilled that hole to the wall plug and screwed it in. However I do not think I removed enough of the debris from the hole so when I screwed the screw in it pulled that debris out but with nowhere for it to go it crakced the tile................ SAKE!
I could not bare calling the tiler out again so asked one of my neighbours if I could borrow his tiler cutter, bought some adhesive and did it that way. Now the fix I did is noticeably different when there is nothing there but with the shelf up and all the stff on the shelf you can barely see it so that is a bonus:
We then moved on and got the walls all painted (you would never notice the difference in the colour change as we tried to match it as best we could and it is almost exactly the same colour) and a new feature wall paper put up in the kithcen diner area. We decided to get a professional in as he would take about 3 days (turned out to be 3 and a bit due to us not having enough wallpaper to finiish the job) whereas I would probably need at least 2 weekends and time during the week to do everything he did in that time. Sometimes throwing money at something like that is a better option when the weather is so pleasant and we just want some of the rooms refreshed which is easier and quicker done by professionals... Even if spending the money I think I could do it for so much less but take so much longer....
The decking lights we had installed when deck was first put in were all nearly dead and to be honest due to them being cool white I was never their biggest fan. However the lights were not replaceable so the whole units needed to be replaced. I decided to buy GU10 decking lights so I could replace the bulbs as well as insert my own bulbs of my choosing.
so I got the lights of Amazon and also (of Amazon) used IP68 electrical connectors to join th emains power cable to the light fitting which made the job so much more quicker and easier to do. I then used cable ties to keep the connector of the ground as best I could. Even though they are IP68 still best to keep them as dry as possible rather than tempting fate.
We finally needed a new bin store as one of the lids on the previous one had completely rotted away. I potentially could have made a new one but with a lack of space would not be able to take my time making it so it matched which was a shame but there were lits of other issues brewing on it like all the hinges were rusted to the point they had broken etc, so while not loads of time or money there were issues with it.
So I pulled the triggeer and bought a new one which I built up this weekend... I may need to plane one of the lif guides down as the fitting is a bit tight just now when it is dry so it could very well become an issue in the winter when it swells up.
Our back garden has come a long way since I installed the new fencing this year and has made the garden an even more enjoyable space to be in. The weather this year has been incredible and has made the enjoyment this year even greater especially with all the brickwork hidden behind some lovely lookiing wood: