Fixing our sagging floor

Finding (or admitting to myself) that the floor in the boys room was not in any way flat or level, was a pretty demoralising time. It happened at the start of a week off which I’d aimed to use to get the room all done apart from the painting; instead, I spent most of the…

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Building character?

Well, this seems like a bit of a problem. I’ve been sort of aware that the floor’s not been right but clearly a bit in denial about the whole thing… I put a level on it today and realised a bit late, that something should probably be done. The floor in here is 3.4m wide,…

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Concept proven…

So, one side took about 4 hours, and there’s the extra work of lining out the shutter boxes to do when I remove the old slats, but it seems well worth it to me. With some beads on and hung a bit better, they should look like they’ve always been there!

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Prototyping…

So, lots to say about projects, but that will follow… Today, I’m mocking up some shutters, just so see whether it’s doable with £50’s worth of ply rather than the slightly mad £2000 quote from our window makers. Clearly I’m making something totally different just sticking ply together, rather than building them properly with rails…

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