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| Mon 30 Jun 2008 | Carpets... ...were fitted today in all three bedrooms and the... more |
| Mon 23 Jun 2008 | ..the countdown The carpets are being fitted on the 30 June so the... more |
| Wed 18 Jun 2008 | By Golly We've Done It! The curved glass has been fitted - all thr... more |
| Mon 16 Jun 2008 | Floor levelling This weekend we have put a Weber floor levellin... more |
| Sat 14 Jun 2008 | The electrical installation All the time that exciting developments have be... more |
| Thu 12 Jun 2008 | The paint job I have never really been a fan of painting but as ... more |
| Tue 10 Jun 2008 | There’s the bad news and then there’s the worse news…! The bad news is that with 8 triple suction lifters... more |
| Fri 06 Jun 2008 | The Glass Dome For the last 3 months, the entrance has had clear ... more |
| Mon 02 Jun 2008 | ‘Baz and Ollie’ fan club… If you want the best tilers in the world – g... more |
| Sun 25 May 2008 | Two down, two to go.. The bathroom tiling is now complete as is the w... more |
| Thu 22 May 2008 | Leave of absence I haven't written for a while. Dad has be... more |
| Sun 04 May 2008 | Grand Designs Live As a true advocate of IBL lighting and having u... more |
| Tue 29 Apr 2008 | Busman's holiday We have just had a brief trip to Portugal to ge... more |
| Thu 24 Apr 2008 | The sexy gutters I have spent most of the last two days on a scaffo... more |
| Tue 22 Apr 2008 | Hard hats and slippers? The tiles are going down - they look superb.&nb... more |
| Mon 21 Apr 2008 | Things are looking up - for a Monday! Today, Ollie and Barry, the tilers from Foxwood... more |
| Fri 18 Apr 2008 | The tunnel, but what happened to the light at the end of it? There have been some weeks during this build wh... more |
| Wed 16 Apr 2008 | Let there be light! ....Mummy Bears rule the day! This is our own n... more |
| Mon 14 Apr 2008 | This week We have taken on a geothermal and underflo... more |
| Sun 13 Apr 2008 | Who says underfloor heating needs to be underfloor? We have Rehau underfloor heating fitted t... more |
| Sun 06 Apr 2008 | Building a snowman.. ...would be easier than building this bungalow ... more |
| Thu 03 Apr 2008 | The morning after the night before I think we are all relieved that we got through... more |
| Tue 25 Mar 2008 | Filming day The bungalow is looking good - in parts! ... more |
| Mon 24 Mar 2008 | No more, no more... please. We worked on site until nearly midnight... more |
| Sun 23 Mar 2008 | The spray job... We have had another mad day but at 7pm, Paul st... more |
| Fri 21 Mar 2008 | Aneka eat your heart out We have three days to final filming and the pla... more |
| Sun 16 Mar 2008 | Projection plastering Knauf kindly supported this project with their ... more |
| Fri 14 Mar 2008 | It's raining men... ...or should I say it is raining and there are ... more |
| Mon 10 Mar 2008 | The Kitchen arrived from Ikea ...in amongst all the mayhem! It is... more |
| Fri 29 Feb 2008 | Wot no windows? After much deliberation, we have decided to get... more |
| Fri 22 Feb 2008 | The windows saga Having been promised the window delivery on 15t... more |
| Wed 20 Feb 2008 | Can it get any worse? Paul is being pulled in so many directions as h... more |
| Mon 11 Feb 2008 | JIT Cottage Forget Bluebell Bunalow, this should be call th... more |
| Fri 01 Feb 2008 | Home Automation We have struggled to get our heads around the w... more |
| Thu 31 Jan 2008 | The end of another week - Gale force winds and more rain ....with the final filming date looming we are ... more |
| Tue 22 Jan 2008 | Seamless gutters We found the most amazing new gutter system (oo... more |
| Mon 21 Jan 2008 | Windows Having watched many Grand Designs programmes we... more |
| Fri 18 Jan 2008 | The final piece of roof arrives Having had several moved dates, the last sectio... more |
| Tue 15 Jan 2008 | Snorkel and flippers? What a day - severe weather warnings, torrentia... more |
| Fri 28 Dec 2007 | New Year With the final date of filming looming - ... more |
| Wed 12 Dec 2007 | A polystyrene overcoat? We met with Graham Barrett of Relius, a part of... more |
| Tue 11 Dec 2007 | The final stages of the roof...or not? The last five roof panels arrive. As the shape ... more |
| Mon 10 Dec 2007 | More to this than bricks and mortar! Jean decides there is more to the bungalow than bl... more |
| Fri 02 Nov 2007 | Underfloor Heating Design Today Ian Shaw, of Design-UFH, the underfloor heat... more |
| Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it's our roof !!! Today was a very exciting day - our first roof sec... more | |
| Thu 16 Aug 2007 | Underfloor heating We have spent a long and gruelling weekend layi... more |
| Fri 06 Jul 2007 | More Piles! Ever wondered what the bottom of a 12m pile hol... more |
| Tue 03 Jul 2007 | Piles! The game is finally on! Piling rig arrives... more |
| Wed 11 Apr 2007 | Stumpy! Some wit suggested that "The best thing yo... more |
| Fri 02 Feb 2007 | Nice dry site - NOT! We started clearing and levelling the site - an... more |
| Fri 18 Aug 2006 | Breaking Ground Jean climbed aboard the JCB and, under instruction... more |