22-06-2016, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by clumsy
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It all looks very nice. I wish you many more happy years in your lovely home.
Thinking back over the years I still remember the struggle to get out first terraced 2 bed house way back in 1972 with what was known as gazumping was rife. if it wasn't for a cousin-in law who was a builder among other things we would not got our foot on the housing ladder.Having just got married after saving hard, and I do mean hard for nearly 2 years (5 jobs between us). Walking through that front door for the first time and shutting the world out is something I will never forget.
Just as an example of how tight our money was, we spent nearly an hour in a store in the winter sales looking to see if we could afford a copper bottom milk saucepan for 50p.
it took another month to start getting cutlery set together
Viners sable knifes were £1 each so you can imagine how long it took to get a set of 6 knifes forks spoons etc and we still have them.
22-06-2016, 10:28 AM
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Re: Finished at last
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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Glad to hear you have finished realspeed. I'm quite envious as I still have a lot to do before I get to that point.What will you do with your time now? Maybe you could start decorating the first room you decorated.
We can spend a little more time going out seeing places and myself more time on photography
We have a cruise booked and everything paid for end of next month doing Sweden then on to Finland-Estonia-Latvia- Lithuania- Germany- Russia and finally Denmark.
So that is the next big thing in our diary and our son is coming to look after the house over that time.
Next year already booked and paid for, 14 days to Barbados- Aruba -Cayman islands- Jamaica- ST Maarten-- St lucia - Dominica and back to Barbados. Not booked day trips out yet as they havn't announced them.
22-06-2016, 10:45 AM
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Thank you Barry.You should have seen how those log stores were built! German builders had nothing on them. Every tile on the log stores was double screwed into the support struts and every main joint in the frame was cross fixed so no way could you even hammer them apart, thank goodness for my chain saw or I would still be trying to dismantle it. The one on the side of the house took a week to get down. The previous owner was a carpenter with is own building firm and I recon B&Q had to restock their screw supply each time he visited. Never ever seen so many screws in everything in my life.
Even in the workshop part of the garage he had managed to slice tree trunks longways and each half made up a work bench on both sides again to ages to dismantle.
Some of the timber from the side house log store
take a look at the joints in the foreground and you will see what I mean
22-06-2016, 11:01 AM
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42 bags or rubble like above to clear before greenhouse base could be started
Trying to get an idea if a small greenhouse would fit into the space avoiding vine tree on left
sub base
slabs cut and roughly laid to fit before cementing into right position
managed it after about 3 months of work, most waiting for greenhouse delivery. working out how it all fitted together was fun ,NOT
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