Call That A Shelf???

Ok, so it sags a bit in the middle - that's a legacy from the day these planks stood where a radiator now stands!

Dare I say I lifted it and said to Fran "Is it straight?" before drilling for the angle bracket? No I daren't! Who wrote that?

Anyway that's why there was no entry yesterday, we spent the day trying to get back to rights after the central heating being done.

If anyone in the Blackpool area is thinking of having new central heating installed by the way, I can thoroughly recommend Read and Errington, who were quick, efficient and who managed to install pipes, radiators and a combi-boiler with the minimum of fuss in 3 days flat!

New Central Heating

The work on our central heating has started this week.

Radiators have appeared on walls and a new combi-boiler is taking shape in the outhouse.

What on earth all those pipes are for I've no idea - one for gas, one for water - what do all the others do???

The cats were very subdued yesterday at the sounds of drilling, hammering and floorboards creaking as they were lifted. They spent much of the day behind the sofa and part of me hopes they'll do the same today as the work carries on.

D-I-Y - Destroy It Yourself

I've been reluctantly forced into a spot of D-I-Y.

My motto is normally D-D-I-Y and for very good reasons but in this case it was more a case of destruction than doing...

Ever since we moved in here, the hallway has been somewhat hideously cladded with wooden panelling of the cheapi-board variety. It's meant we never had to bother decorating the hall and stairs and landing apart from painting the door frames but now, with a new central heating system about to come in I needed to clear the walls so radiators could go in.

There will need to be a spot of restoration work now to fill holes in the plaster where wall plugs have held the battens for the boarding.

In the photo, boarding is still on the left and may yet stay - it covers the space under the stairs where there is too much junk to have it on show... The new uncovered wall is on the right.

It's just Tigger's sense of humour that she is looking at the boarding trying to make you think that that is the new bit...

Get Rid of the Old Boiler!

No, no, no... I was referring to the old central heating!

We've been told for the last few years that if (when!) something goes wrong with our existing heating it will be impossible to repair it so we're biting the bullet, tightening the belt, battening down the hatches and doing lots more things totally unrelated to each other or to heating...

There seems to be a week of devastation and disruption to look forward to during my summer break this year...