Simon Sherlock's Weblog

I hope everybody out there had a great Christmas and are enjoying whatever they got whether they wanted them or not. We had a nightmare/grea...

Today was supposed to be the final day of having workmen invade the place. The new carpet and laminate floor have been completed and, as yo...

At last we have nearly completed the 2007 phase of improving our house. What started as the central heating and replacement of knackered ol...

Plastering, which has held up the conservatory for longer than it took to build the thing, is now complete. The house now smells of wet pl...

After what must be the tenth attempt a miracle has occurred and we have found a plasterer who both answers your calls, comes when he says AN...

It's an old (and tired) saying that DIY stands for ' Destroy It Yourself' rather than ' Do It Yourself' but I've man...

What a week. We're beginning to wonder whether the conservatory is jinxed and whether it will ever be finished. Monday - the tiler tur...

Another few weeks go by, and the conservatory remains 80% complete. In fact it is more a case of 2 steps forward and one step back! The til...

At long last there is light at the end of the tunnel! This week we have managed to get the electrics finished, the glass replaced with self-...

We're almost there. In coding terms you'd say we were 80% done as it sounds like you've almost finished. The fact that it migh...

Having sung the praises of the guys doing the conservatory I am now getting fed up. Yesterday (Friday 31 August) the build was a whole week...

Not much change visually, but it's coming on well. A lot of the glass has now been fitted and most of the roof finished with just arou...

Well day 8 was a bit of a laugh as the buggers just didn't turn up. Considering the whole thing was supposed to be finished last Friday...

Well it's supposed to be finished by now, but as you'll see it still very definitely a work in progress! The guys turned up on Monda...