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Tag: builder

  • F-Day plus 214

    It's been 214 days since I had to evacuate my house following a flood, and repair work is (intermittently) underway. And there are so-many moving pieces to this dance that... it's little wonder that people are getting confused.
    Like:
    Our insurance company appointed a relocations specialist to handle our temporary accommodation needs (moving โ€ฆ

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    • posted 15 September, 2026
  • A dilapidated living room with damaged lower walls and missing flooring, filled with tools and bags of rubbish.

    F-Day plus 204 (no content??)

    HTTP status code 204 means "no content". No update. Nothing to tell you. F-Day plus 204 brings the same meaning: a disappointing lack of updates to the efforts to repair our house following getting flooded-out in February.

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    • posted 4 September, 2026
  • 125 days since our house flooded, and the damaged furniture fittings, floors, underfloors, and now inner walls have been torn out.

    Over a third of a year since we had to move out, I'm optimistic that perhaps, at last, reconstruction work is almost ready to begin.

    It's a long, slow process. And there's clearly a way to go. But it's good to see progress happening.

    Full image of A view through a pair of dilapidated residential rooms, through the gaps in a hollowed-out partition wall.
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    A view through a pair of dilapidated residential rooms, through the gaps in a hollowed-out partition wall.

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    • posted 18 June, 2026
  • 115 days since our house flood, the beginnings of the very first of the remedial works are taking place. Today, builders will drill through and lift part of a cracked poured-concrete foundation to work out what's beneath and whether it's stable enough to lay a new floor on top of. Also, somebody's coming around to quote for the laying of new floors (and we'll see if their numbers line up with those estimated by the insurance company).

    Full image of Several vehicles parked in the rain on the rural residential driveway of 'The Green'.
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    Several vehicles parked in the rain on the rural residential driveway of 'The Green'.

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 8 June, 2026
  • Dan finishes building a Fatmoose TropicTemple XXL SurfSwing playframe.

    Building a Playframe (Timelapse Video)

    Dan builds play equipment for the kids and shares a timelapse video of the process.

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    • posted 8 August, 2020
  • Image representing post: The Crack

    The Crack

    Dan defines esotericism for a man who's repairing his floorboards. That is all.

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    • posted 4 April, 2011

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