Posts tagged 'flooring'

Yesteryear's tools

At long last another update. We've moved in just over a year ago but still have quite a bit of work to do.

I am currently working on my office so that I can actually move into it. For the last few days I have been installing the wooden floor …

Finishing the wooden floor

We are back working on the house this weekend and have discovered a faster and easier method to lay down the recycled wooden floor board. In particular we have found a great method to push the boards hard against each other to leave as small a gap as possible. We …

First floor boards

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This weekend we have started putting the floor boards down in the Rosalba's sewing room. The recycled hard wood floor boards are incredibly hard and no matter how I tried most nails bent had to be pulled out again. So we have decided to investigate nail guns to fix the …

Slate Tiles

Rosalba and I have been rather lucky as we have found about 87 m² of used slate tiles.

Last weekend I went to pick them up with our 1 tonne ute and a trailer.

I have to say that I seriously underestimated the weight of the slate tiles and I …