Regular readers (ha!) might wonder why there have been few posts recently. Well, visitors to the house would twig straight away: currently the dining room and kitchen are completely gutted, ready for the shiny new ones. This includes removing the dado rail in the dining room, which some twonk decided were in need of a two inch number eight screw every three feet plus half a gallon of mastik.

I swear the gang that did the house up before I got my hands on it must have had shares in the company that made Mastik: it was everywhere. The most sweary moments of the project so far were when we started pulling up the soft as shite pine floor which was stuck to the screed in the dining room floor - I kid you not, there must have been half a tube of Mastik per plank. Two wrecking bars and a lot of brute force and ignorance pulled each one up. The only problem: it took the damn bitumen screed with it! Nasty problem. Either I have to learn about screeding in a hurry or we have yet another bill on our hands, and the worst kind at that: one we didn’t expect.

Eyes on the prize: shiny, shiny kitchen!

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